The Complete Genome Sequence of Erigeron philadelphicus, the Philadelphia Fleabane

The Philadelphia Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus) is a common flower across North America, growing along roadsides and in fields and woodlands. Each plant has 3 to 35 small daisy-like flowers at the top of the plant. Flowers are 0.5 - 0.8" across, with 150 or more pink to white thread-like petals and a yellow center disk. We present the whole genome sequence of this species. Illumina sequencing was performed on a single leaf from a wild-collected plant. The reads were assembled using a de novo method followed by a series of references from related species for finishing. The raw and assembled data is publicly available via Genbank: Sequence Read Archive (SRR13004263) and Assembly (GCA_024320915).