Erigeron L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 863 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central European Russia, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, Florida, France, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuva, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen, Yukon, Zambia

Introduced into:

Algeria, Andaman Is., Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Republic, Chagos Archipelago, Chatham Is., Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Cyprus, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Eswatini, Fiji, Free State, Gabon, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Gulf States, Hainan, Hawaii, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kazan-retto, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Libya, Line Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Malaya, Marcus I., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicobar Is., Niue, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Society Is., South Australia, South China Sea, Sumatera, Tasmania, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Wake I., Western Australia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora of Iraq

  • C. C. Townsend Revised by D. J. Nicholas Hind (2019). Flora of Iraq, Volume 6: Compositae. Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. & Hind, D. J. N. (Eds). Kew Publishing
  • Hind, D.J.N. (2012). Plate 729. Erigeron karvinskianus. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 29(1): 52–65.
  • L. Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 371 (1754)
  • L. Sp. Pl.: 863 1753)
  • Nesom & Robinson in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 8: 340 [2006] (2007)
  • Nesom, G.L.  (1989).  Infrageneric  taxonomy  of  New  World  Erigeron  (Compositae:  Astereae). Phytologia 67(1): 67–93.
  • Solbrig, O.T. (1962). The South American species of Erigeron.Contr. Gray Herb. 191: 3–79.
  • Vierhapper, F. (1906). Monographie der alpinen Erigeron-Arten Europas und Vorderasiens. Beih. Bot. Centralblatt 19(2): 385–560.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • B.L. Burtt in Kew Bull. 3: 371 (1949).
  • —F.T.A. 3: 307

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A.J. Scott in Fl. Mascar. 109: 105 (1993)
  • DC., Prodr. 5: 283 (1836)
  • K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 420 (1994)
  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 371 (1754)
  • Oliv. & Hiern in F.T.A. 3: 307 (1877)
  • Sp. Pl.: 863 (1753)
  • Wild in Kirkia 10: 34 (1975)

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0