Erigeron Species, Fleabane Daisy, Philadelphia Fleabane

I love this native plant. It blooms all summer and into the fall. It is easy to pull out when done and the new plants are flat to the s...Read Moreoil taking up little room. For white in the garden all summer there is only one other that I have found to be continual and that is Kalimeris. It has small, 1/2" button like blooms.

Since it reseeds it is easy care and cutting/pulling it out before seeding you can control the number of new ones the next year.
Tish
Doswell, VA

Native to the U.S. and Canada.

The pollen or nectar of the flowers attract many kinds of insects, including long-tongued b...Read Moreees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, skippers, beetles, and plant bugs. Examples of more frequent visitors include Little Carpenter bees, Nomadine Cuckoo bees, Green Metallic bees and other Halictine bees, Eumenine wasps, Tachinid flies, and Thick-Head flies. The caterpillars of Schinia lynx (Lynx Flower Moth) eat the flowers and seed capsules, while Lygus lineolaris (Tarnished Plant Bug) sucks the plant juices. Among mammalian herbivores, deer and rabbits occasionally consume the leaves, stems, and flowers.

Preference is full or partial sun and moist conditions.

Noxious and highly invasive.

Identifying features of the species, is hairy leaves, pinkish tint to blooms, and flower buds hang low before flowering. Other species of...Read More Erigeron have these features too, but this species excels at each. In my area this species flowers in early spring. Other species of Erigeron flower later. (Erigeron pulchellas) supposedly has more hairy leaves/stem, but it spreads underground, whereas (E. philadelphicus) does not.

I've seen this species mentioned as a possible host plant for the Northern Metalmark (Calephelis borealis).