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|accepted_name=Erigeron compactus
|accepted_authority=S. F. Blake
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|place=35: 78. 1922
|year=1922
}}
|common_names=Fern-leaf fleabane
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Erigeron pulvinatus
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Rocky Mts.,
|publication_place=911, 1067. 1917,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Erigeron;Erigeron compactus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Erigeron]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Erigeron compactus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 276
|treatment_page=page 295
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 2–10 cm; taprooted, caudices branched. <b>Stems</b> erect (scapiform, bracteate), finely strigose, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> (persistent) mostly basal (leaf bases broadened or not, not thickened and whitish-indurate); blades linear, 4–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, cauline bractlike or absent, margins entire, faces densely, finely strigose (hairs thin-based), eglandular. <b>Heads</b> 1. <b>Involucres</b> 5–8 × 7–17 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 2–3(–4) series, finely and closely strigose (hairs thin-based), inconspicuously minutely glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 15–32; corollas white to pinkish, often with an abaxial lilac midstripe, 6–11 mm (tubes and laminae bases glabrous or glabrate), laminae tardily coiling. <b>Disc</b> corollas 4.5–6 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.8–3.2 mm, 2-nerved, margins velutinous-ciliate, faces glabrous; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 30–40 bristles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, sandy or rocky soil, dunes, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper
|elevation=1300–2900 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Erigeron compactus
|authority=S. F. Blake
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Erigeron pulvinatus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Dry, sandy or rocky soil, dunes, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper
|elevation=1300–2900 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|publication year=1922
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Erigeron
|species=Erigeron compactus
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