Erigeron multiradiatus(Lindl. ex DC.) Benth. & Hook.f.

Himalayan fleabane

WFO wfo-0000116952 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 multiradiatus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2012-08-02 / obs. 172286353
Erigeron multiradiatus, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172286358
Erigeron multiradiatus, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. c Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98171153
Erigeron multiradiatus, photographed by Dee Shea Himes
fig. d Dee Shea Himes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98171116

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3517507
Filed as
Erigeron multiradiatus (Lindl. ex DC.) Benth. ex C.B.Clarke
Det. by
Yilin Chen
Collected
Tibet-MacArthur, D. A. Bell, V. Funk, S. Ge, Y. Meng, Z. Nie, R. Ree, J. Wen, S. K. Wu, Z. Yang, J. Yue & W. Zuo 2006-09-09
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Erigeron multiradiatus is native: Afghanistan, China South-Central, Tibet, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina South-CentralTibetEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Erigeron multiradiatus, 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
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
Tibet CHT

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.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Aster inuloides D.Don
  • Aster multiradiatus Wall.
  • Aster roylei Onno
  • Erigeron multiradiatus var. glabrescens Y.Ling & Y.L.Chen
  • Erigeron multiradiatus var. multiradiatus
  • Erigeron multiradiatus var. ovatifolius Y.Ling & Y.L.Chen
  • Erigeron multiradiatus var. salicifolius Chang ex Y.Ling & Y.L.Chen
  • Erigeron radiosus Spreng. ex DC.
  • Stenactis multiradiata Lindl. ex DC.
  • Stenactis multiradiata Lindl.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.