Erigeron radicatus
 
Dwarf Fleabane

Fertile Shoot

Hole in the Wall, North of Big Muddy Lake
21-May-2019

The lower part of the stem with dead leaves has been removed from this specimen.

Radicatus: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this species. 

Plants usually less than 20 cm high; NOT [Plants usually more than 20 cm high]

Leaves mainly basal

Stem leaves 0-3; NOT [Stem leaves numerous]

Leaves entire or merely 3-toothed at apex; NOT [Leaves deeply dissected into at least 2 or 3 lobes]

Heads solitary; NOT [Heads 2 to many, or both]

Heads with well-developed ray florets; NOT [Heads discoid or with short inconspicuous ray florets]