White hairs on stems below phyllaries
and red-tipped glandular hairs on the tips of the phyllaries
Petals curled under on old wilted blossom
1,2,3 Located at rock turnout, Guardsman Pass Road, Above Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah, 17 July 2015. Petals are 2-3 mm wide.
4, 5 Located at the rock turnout, on 20 July 2015. Photos to show white hairs on the stems below the phyllaries, the somewhat red-tipped glandular hairs and the petals curled under on old, wilted blossoms.
"Erigeron glacialis stems below the phyllaries have numerous, fine, long, white hairs. E. glacialis phyllary tips are red-tinged (to varying degrees) and they have short, fine, red-tipped glandular (sticky) hairs (the tiny dots edging the phyllaries in the close-up photograph above)." excerpt from Southwest Colorado Wildflowers. Author: Al Schneider http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/
