Howell's Fleabane

Perennials, 20–50 cm; rhizomatous, fibrous-rooted, caudices simple, thick. Stems erect to basally ascending, proximally glabrous, distally sparsely to densely strigillose, eglandular. Leaves basal (persistent) and cauline; basal and proximal cauline blades spatulate, 50–200 × 15–45 mm, little reduced distally until distal to midstems, margins entire or shallowly serrate to denticulate, finely ciliate, faces glabrous, eglandular; mid blades ovate to cordate (bases clasping to subclasping). Heads 1. Involucres 6–8 × 12–20 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3(–4) series, glabrous, densely minutely glandular. Ray florets 30–50; corollas white, 13–25 mm (mostly 1.5–3 mm wide), laminae coiling. Disc corollas 4–5 mm. Cypselae 2.5–3 mm, subterete, (4–)5(–6)-nerved, faces sparsely strigose; pappi: outer of setae, inner of 20–30 bristles.

Erigeron salsuginosus (Richardson ex R. Brown) A. Gray var. howellii A. Gray, Notes Compositae, 93. 1880

Erigeron howellii is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known as Howell's fleabane. It has been found in the Cascades in the northwestern United States, in northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington.

Erigeron howellii is a perennial herb up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Each plant generally produces only one flower head, with up to 50 white ray florets surrounding numerous yellow disc florets.