Erigeron pulchellus, commonly known as robin’s plantain, is an aster-like, stoloniferous, biennial to short-lived perennial that typically grows to 2’ tall on soft, hairy, hollow, unbranched, sparsely-leaved flowering stems rising from a basal clump of paddle-shaped, scalloped to bluntly toothed, soft and hairy leaves (2-6” long). Stem leaves are shorter, stem-clasping, ovate to lanceolate and sparse. This plant is native to rocky or open woods, thickets, fields, moist streambanks, disturbed areas and roadsides from Minnesota to Ontario, Quebec and Maine south to Florida, Louisiana and Texas. In Missouri, it is commonly found in the eastern half of the State plus the Ozark region, but is absent from the northwestern part of the State. Stems are topped in April to June with a profuse and showy bloom of small flowers (to 1 1/2” wide) in loose clusters (2-6 flowers per cluster). Each flowerhead has 50-100 densely packed, thread-like, white to pale violet ray florets surrounding a yellow center disk. Flowers resemble asters but have rays that are much narrower and more numerous.