Erigeron eriocephalusJ.Vahl

WFO wfo-0000010167 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Erigeron eriocephalus, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. a Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-07-24 / obs. 23195432
Erigeron eriocephalus, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. b Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23195412
Erigeron eriocephalus, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. c Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23195398
Erigeron eriocephalus, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. d Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176997880
Erigeron eriocephalus, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. e Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176660865

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Erigeron eriocephalus is native: Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Finland, Iceland, North European Russia, Norway, Sweden, Alaska, British Columbia, Greenland, Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Yukon KhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanWest SiberiaYakutiyaFinlandIcelandNorth European RussiaNorwaySwedenAlaskaBritish ColumbiaGreenlandLabradorNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutQuébecYukon
Native distribution of Erigeron eriocephalus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
British Columbia BRC
Greenland GNL
Labrador LAB
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Québec QUE
Yukon YUK
Khabarovsk KHA ASIA-TEMPERATE
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Finland FIN EUROPE
Iceland ICE
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
Sweden SWE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 117 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -36.5 °C -28.3 °C -16.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 4.2 °C 11.5 °C 15.5 °C
Annual rainfall 264 mm 522 mm 1,202 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 20 mm 70 mm 186 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 117 research-grade observations of Erigeron eriocephalus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Erigeron plurifolius Botsch.
  • Erigeron unalaschkensis var. eriocephalus Porsild
  • Erigeron uniflorus subsp. eriocephalus (J.Vahl ex Hornem) Cronquist
  • Erigeron uniflorus var. eriocephalus (J.Vahl) B.Boivin

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.