Flora of North America species comparison

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Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris
Photo is of parent taxon

Inyo rabbitbrush, sticky leaf rabbitbrush, yellow rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 10–50 cm.
Stems

glabrous.
Leaf

blades green, 1-nerved, filiform, terete, 10–30 × 0.5–1 mm, not twisted, margins obscurely involute, not noticeably ciliate, apices acicular, faces hairy.
Involucres

± turbinate to obconic, 5–6 mm.
Disc florets

3–5;

corollas 3.5–5 mm, lobes 1–1.2 mm.
Phyllaries

14–24 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 weak vertical ranks, (spreading at maturity) green to brown subapical patch, midnerves glandular-thickened distally, convex or weakly keeled, broadly linear to linear-oblong, unequal, margins scarious, eciliate or distally erose-ciliolate, apices sharply acute or apiculate, flat, faces glabrous.
Heads

in rounded cymiform arrays.
2n

= 18.

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris
Phenology Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat Desert slopes in granitic sand
Elevation 1300–2000 m (4300–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 192.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Chrysothamnus > Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
Sibling taxa
C. viscidiflorus subsp. lanceolatus, C. viscidiflorus subsp. planifolius, C. viscidiflorus subsp. puberulus, C. viscidiflorus subsp. viscidiflorus
Synonyms C. axillaris
Name authority (D. D. Keck) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 40: 118. (1980)
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