Erigeron myosotisPers.

WFO wfo-0000029587 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

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 myosotis, photographed by aacocucci
fig. a aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-17 / obs. 173190736
Erigeron myosotis, photographed by aacocucci
fig. b aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173190780
Erigeron myosotis, photographed by aacocucci
fig. c aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173190724
Erigeron myosotis, photographed by aacocucci
fig. d aacocucci, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173190750

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2521184
Filed as
Erigeron myosotis Pers.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
N. Goodall 1967-01-07
Origin
AR
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 4 botanical countries

Regions where Erigeron myosotis is native: Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South Argentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Erigeron myosotis, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS

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 33 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 angustifolius Phil.
  • Erigeron fernandezii Phil.
  • Erigeron fernandezii f. fernandezii
  • Erigeron gayanus Remy
  • Erigeron gayanus var. gayanus
  • Erigeron gayanus var. leptophyllus Speg.
  • Erigeron ibari Phil.
  • Erigeron lacarensis Phil.
  • Erigeron myosotis f. myosotis
  • Erigeron myosotis f. palmaris Vierh.
  • Erigeron myosotis f. pluriceps Vierh.
  • Erigeron myosotis f. spithameus Vierh.
  • Erigeron myosotis subsp. fuegiae Vierh.
  • Erigeron myosotis subsp. magellanicus (Sch.Bip.) Vierh.
  • Erigeron myosotis subsp. myosotis
  • Erigeron myosotis subsp. pseudomagellanicus Vierh.
  • Erigeron myosotis var. elongatum Sch.Bip.
  • Erigeron myosotis var. myosotis
  • Erigeron myosotoides Juss. ex Pers.
  • Erigeron philippi Sch.Bip.
  • Erigeron philippii Sch.Bip. ex Wedd.
  • Erigeron philippii f. densehirsutus Vierh.
  • Erigeron philippii f. philippii
  • Erigeron philippii f. pluriceps Vierh.

and 9 more.

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.