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rubber rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 1–25 dm.
Stems

densely white; felt-like tomentose, sometimes glabrate distally.

Leaves

filiform to linear-oblanceolate, 1–7 cm, glabrous or tomentose, often gland-dotted.

Inflorescences

cyme-like arrays

Involucres

narrowly obconic, 6–16 mm.

Ray florets

0.

Disc florets

4–6;

corollas 6–12 mm, yellow.

Phyllaries

in 5–7 unequal series, linear-oblong, chartaceous;

surfaces glabrous or lightly tomentose; outer gradually < inner.

Fruits

3–8 mm.

. heads

discoid.

Ericameria nauseosa

Ericameria lignumviridis

Distribution
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Discussion

Western North America. 21 varieties; 4 varieties treated in Flora.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 248
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
E. arborescens, E. bloomeri, E. discoidea, E. greenei, E. nana, E. parryi, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa
E. arborescens, E. bloomeri, E. discoidea, E. greenei, E. nana, E. nauseosa, E. parryi, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa
Subordinate taxa
E. nauseosa var. hololeuca, E. nauseosa var. nana, E. nauseosa var. oreophila, E. nauseosa var. speciosa
Synonyms Chrysothamnus nauseosus
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