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pintwater rabbitbrush

Arizona rabbitbrush

Habit Subshrubs, 10–30 cm; with woody, highly branched caudices, bark whitish to dark gray, finely ridged, ± fibrous with age. Shrubs, 8–20 cm; with woody, highly branched caudices, bark dark gray, highly fibrous with age.
Stems

erect, green becoming whitish, glabrous, ± resinous.

ascending, green, ± puberulent, stipitate-glandular.

Leaves

ascending to spreading;

petiolate;

blades mostly 3-nerved (nerves reticulate, raised), elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 20–80 × (7–)10–25 mm (mostly larger basally, ± reduced distally), flat, apices acute, faces glabrous, gland-dotted.

erect to closely ascending;

sessile;

blades with ± evident midnerves, linear to narrowly elliptic, 7–20 × 0.7–1.5 mm, sulcate, sometimes apiculate, apices acute, faces moderately puberulent, uniformly stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

cylindric to turbinate, 6.5–8.8 × 1.8–2.5 mm.

subcylindric, 9–11 × 2.5–3.5 mm.

Disc florets

5(–6);

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes 0.8–1.2 mm;

style branches 2.2–2.7 mm, appendages 0.8–1.2 mm.

5;

corollas 5.5–7.5 mm, lobes 0.9–1.5 mm;

style branches 2.7–3.2 mm, appendages 1–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

19–24(–30) in 3–4 series, in vertical ranks, tan with apical green spot, midnerves evident distally, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–6 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, chartaceous, apices obtuse to acuminate, flat, faces glabrous.

± 20 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 strong vertical ranks, tan, often with green or dark subapical splotch, midnerves often obscure, linear or lanceolate to elliptic, 2–9 × 0.5–1.3 mm, unequal, outer ± herbaceous, inner chartaceous, strongly keeled, apices acute to rounded, tip cupped, faces of outer glabrous or puberulent.

Heads

in condensed, cymiform arrays, not overtopped by leaves.

in small cymiform to racemiform arrays.

Cypselae

cylindric, 2.5–3 mm, faces hairy;

pappi tan, 3.1–3.9 mm.

tan, elliptic, 4.2–6 mm, mostly 5-ribbed, faces glabrous, sparsely glandular;

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Chrysothamnus eremobius

Chrysothamnus molestus

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Crevices of limestone cliffs Rocky soils, mostly on limestone pinyon-juniper woodland
Elevation 1400–1700 m (4600–5600 ft) 1800–2400 m (5900–7900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
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from FNA
AZ
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Chrysothamnus eremobius is known only from the Pintwater and Sheep ranges of southern Nevada.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Chrysothamnus molestus is known only from Coconino County. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 189. FNA vol. 20, p. 190.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Chrysothamnus Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Chrysothamnus
Sibling taxa
C. depressus, C. greenei, C. humilis, C. molestus, C. scopulorum, C. stylosus, C. vaseyi, C. viscidiflorus
C. depressus, C. eremobius, C. greenei, C. humilis, C. scopulorum, C. stylosus, C. vaseyi, C. viscidiflorus
Synonyms C. viscidiflorus var. molestus
Name authority L. C. Anderson: Brittonia 35: 23, fig. 1. (1983) (S. F. Blake) L. C. Anderson: Madroño 17: 222. (1964)
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