Erigeron vernus (L.) Torr. & A. Gray

Biennials or short-lived perennials, 15–50 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, caudices relatively thick and short, or elongate rhizomes, or appearing simple, sometimes producing rosulate offsets. Stems erect, sparsely strigose to strigoso-hirsute or villous, eglandular. Leaves mostly basal (persistent); blades narrowly to broadly oblanceolate to spatulate, 20–100(–150) × 4–25 mm (usually ± fleshy-thickened), margins entire or denticulate to mucronulate, faces glabrate eglandular; cauline mostly bractlike. Heads (1–)4–20(–25) in corymbiform arrays (from branches near apices). Involucres 3–4 × 5–11 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3(–4) series, usually sparsely hirsute to strigose, sometimes glabrous, eglandular, sometimes viscid. Ray florets 25–40; corollas white, 4–8 mm, laminae not coiling or reflexing. Disc corollas 2.5–3.8 mm. Cypselae subterete, 1.2–1.6 mm, 4-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 16–25 bristles. 2n = 18.

Aster vernus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 876. 1753

Erigeron vernus is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name early white-top fleabane. It is native to the southeastern United States from Virginia to Louisiana.

Erigeron vernus grows in moist locations in flatwoods and savannahs, and sometimes in ditches and by roadsides. It is a biennial or perennial herb up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) tall, producing rhizomes and a woody underground caudex. The inflorescence is made up of 1–25 flower heads in flat-topped arrays. Each head contains 25–40 white ray florets surrounding numerous yellow disc florets.

Erigeron vernus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (L.) Torr. & A.Gray mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1841.