Flora of North America species comparison

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Ericameria albida

Ericameria crispa

white-flower rabbitbrush

crisped goldenbush
Habit Plants 10–150 cm. Plants 20–40 cm.
Stems

erect to ascending, pale green when young, becoming whitish, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous at and distal to nodes.

erect, green when young, much branched, short-stipitate-glandular.
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.

erect to ascending;

blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 15–30 × 3–8 mm, midnerves and 2 smaller collateral veins evident, (margins crisped) apices acute, often apiculate, faces short-stipitate-glandular, resinous.
Peduncles

usually less than 10 mm (ebracteate).

5–40 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike).
Involucres

turbinate, 6–10 × 2–4 mm.

campanulate, 12.5–15 × 5–9 mm.
Ray florets

0.

0.
Disc florets

5–7;

corollas 4.7–7 mm.

14–24;

corollas 9.5–10.8 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.

24–35 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 8–12 × 1–2.5 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous to chartaceous, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves slightly raised, evident entire length of bodies, (margins ciliate) apices acute to acuminate or cuspidate (outer), appendages slender (outer), abaxial faces glabrous.
Heads

in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 5 cm wide).

usually in loose, paniculiform or congested, cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
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 reddish, elliptic, 6.5–8.5 mm, sparsely, evenly strigose;

pappi usually off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 8–9.5 mm.
2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria albida

Ericameria crispa
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils On open slopes of weathered soils, with manzanita, fir, pine
Elevation 300–1800 m (1000–5900 ft) 2400–3100 m (7900–10200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; UT
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from FNA
UT
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Discussion

Ericameria albida is common in the Great Basin region.

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

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 54. FNA vol. 20, p. 57.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria
Sibling taxa
E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, E. compacta, E. cooperi, E. crispa, E. cuneata, E. discoidea, E. ericoides, E. fasciculata, E. gilmanii, E. greenei, E. laricifolia, E. lignumviridis, E. linearifolia, E. linearis, E. nana, E. nauseosa, E. obovata, E. ophitidis, E. palmeri, E. paniculata, E. parishii, E. parryi, E. pinifolia, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa, E. teretifolia, E. watsonii, E. winwardii, E. zionis
E. albida, E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, E. compacta, E. cooperi, E. cuneata, E. discoidea, E. ericoides, E. fasciculata, E. gilmanii, E. greenei, E. laricifolia, E. lignumviridis, E. linearifolia, E. linearis, E. nana, E. nauseosa, E. obovata, E. ophitidis, E. palmeri, E. paniculata, E. parishii, E. parryi, E. pinifolia, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa, E. teretifolia, E. watsonii, E. winwardii, E. zionis
Synonyms Bigelowia albida, Chrysothamnus albidus Haplopappus crispus
Name authority (M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 55: 86. (1995) (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Neson: Phytologia 68: 152. (1990)
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