Ericameria albida |
Ericameria arborescens |
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white-flower rabbitbrush |
golden-fleece |
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Habit | Plants 10–150 cm. | Plants 10–500 cm. |
Stems | erect to ascending, pale green when young, becoming whitish, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous at and distal to nodes. |
erect to spreading, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted, resinous. |
Leaves | usually ascending, recurved when older; blades filiform (adaxially sulcate), 15–35 × 0.5–2 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous, gland-dotted (in pits and sessile); axillary leaf fascicles often present. |
mostly ascending to spreading, older deflexed; blades filiform (sulcate to concave), 25–90 × 0.5–3 mm, midnerves obscure to evident, apices acuminate to attenuate, often mucronate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted (in deep, circular pits), resinous; axillary leaf fascicles sometimes present. |
Peduncles | usually less than 10 mm (ebracteate). |
1–15 mm (bracts 0–7, scalelike, resembling phyllaries). |
Involucres | turbinate, 6–10 × 2–4 mm. |
turbinate to subcampanulate, 4–6 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
Ray florets | 0. |
0. |
Disc florets | 5–7; corollas 4.7–7 mm. |
10–25; corollas 4–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | 15–20 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–6 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, inner mostly chartaceous (bodies truncate or tapering gradually or abruptly to bases of herbaceous appendages), midnerves faint (margins membranous, usually ciliate), apices (outer and mid) cuspidate (tips squarrose), abaxial faces glabrous, resinous. |
20–25 in 3–4 series, tan, narrowly triangular to lanceolate, 1.5–5 × 0.5–1 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, midnerves evident, raised, mostly uniform in width to slightly dilated apically, (margins membranous, fimbriate) apices erect, acute, abaxial faces resinous. |
Heads | in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 5 cm wide). |
in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 10 cm wide). |
Cypselae | tan, narrowly turbinate to subcylindric or narrowly ellipsoid, 4–5 mm (5-ribbed), moderately hairy to sericeous, often gland-dotted (glands spheric, glistening) distally; pappi whitish, 4.5–5.5 mm. |
tan to brown, narrowly turbinate, 2–3 mm (5-ribbed), hairy; pappi tan, 3.5–4.5 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria albida |
Ericameria arborescens |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils | Dry foothill slopes, in chaparral |
Elevation | 300–1800 m (1000–5900 ft) | 90–2000 m (300–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; UT
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Ericameria albida is common in the Great Basin region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 54. | FNA vol. 20, p. 54. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Bigelowia albida, Chrysothamnus albidus | Linosyris arborescens, Haplopappus arborescens |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 55: 86. (1995) | (A. Gray) Greene: Man. Bot. San Francisco, 175. (1894) |
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