Showy Fleabane in the Landscape
Diane Jones, Draggin' Wing Farm, Water-thrifty Plants for Idaho
Scientfic Name: Erigeron speciosusCommon Name: Showy Fleabane, Mountain Daisy, Aspen Fleabane, Oregon Fleabane
Description: Erect native daisy with narrow leaves and cheerful purple flowers in early to mid-summer. Usually occurs in woodland openings or edges.
Native Habitat: Showy Fleabane is a characteristic species of aspen parkland, coniferous forests, shrub steppe and mountain meadows from British Columbia through Western Montana and south to Arizona and New Mexico. Will adapt readily to lower elevations. Cold hardy.
Cultural Requirement
Soil: Tolerant of most ordinary garden soil
Moisture Tolerance: Low to moderate water needs
Sun/Shade/Preference: Full sun; part shade
Transplanting: Easy
Propagation: Seed, cuttings or division
Maintenance (pruning, fertilization, deadheading, division, irrigation, etc): For most attractive appearance, remove spent flower heads. Deadheading will encourage re-bloom in the fall.
Insect, disease, or other problems: None of concern
Landscape Value
Use in the Landscape: Provides attractive burst of color in early summer; may re-bloom in fall.
Foliage: Dark green glossy leaves in basal clump and running up flowering stalks.
Timing: May-June
Color: Lavender, occasionally shading from blue to white
Form: Semi-dense basal foliage surmounted by longish flowering stalks
Ultimate Size: 18" wide x 18-24" tall
Rate of Growth: Moderate to rapid
Suggested Plant Partners: Pearly Everlasting, Cutleaf Daisy, Pussytoes
Availability: Available at specialty nurseries
Cultivars: Pink Jewel, Grandiflorus
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