{"id":17250,"date":"2026-06-10T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=17250"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:31:18","slug":"daisy-fleabane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/daisy-fleabane\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Fleabane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daisy fleabane (<em>Erigeron sp<\/em>.) is blooming.\u00a0If you\u2019re not familiar with it, the name \u201cteeny daisy\u201d &#8211; given to it by the BugLady\u2019s then four-year-old, firstborn child &#8211; describes it well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s in the Aster\/Composite family Asteraceae, so each fleabane \u201cflower\u201d is actually a whole bouquet made up of a mass of tiny, central flowers called disc flowers and an outer rim of ray flowers.\u00a0But the Asteraceae like to mix things up &#8211; some family members, like dandelions, consist of only ray flowers, while others, like Beggars\u2019 ticks, have very conspicuous disc flowers and inconspicuous ray flowers, and still others, like Blazing stars (<em>Liatris<\/em>) and thistles, have only disc flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word \u201cbane\u201d in a plant\u2019s name usually predicts trouble \u2013 for someone, anyway. 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