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Common name

English: Latin american fleabane

German: Spanisches Gänseblümchen

Mandarin: 加勒比飞蓬 (jia le bi fei peng)

Portuguese: Vitadinia-das-floristas

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Asterales (224)

        Family: Asteraceae (223)(family description)

          Genus: Erigeron (2)

            Epithet: karvinskianus DC. (1)

karvinskianus => in honor of Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinsky von Karwin (1780-1855), German explorer, naturalist and plant collector in Brazil and Mexico

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

Check for Erigeron karvinskianus at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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