Ericameria albida |
Ericameria fasciculata |
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white-flower rabbitbrush |
Eastwood's goldenbush |
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Habit | Plants 10–150 cm. | Plants 30–150 cm. |
Stems | erect to ascending, pale green when young, becoming whitish, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous at and distal to nodes. |
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 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. |
ascending to spreading; blades filiform (terete or flattened), 5–25 × 1–2 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute often mucronate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy, regularly gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous; axillary fascicles of 2–10 leaves, shorter than subtending leaves. |
Peduncles | usually less than 10 mm (ebracteate). |
1–15 mm (bracts 3+, leaflike). |
Involucres | turbinate, 6–10 × 2–4 mm. |
subcampanulate, 6–8.5 × 5–7 mm. |
Ray florets | 0. |
4–6; laminae 4.5–6 × 1.2–2 mm. |
Disc florets | 5–7; corollas 4.7–7 mm. |
18–25; corollas 6.5–8 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. |
22–26 in 3–5 series, yellowish tan, ovate to lanceolate, 2.5–7 × 0.6–1.5 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, midnerves evident, sometimes with 1–2, collateral nerves, ± thickened, raised, often expanded distally, subapical resin ducts darker, narrow and only slightly thickened, (margins membranous, erose-ciliate) apices erect, acute to acuminate or cuspidate, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
Heads | in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 5 cm wide). |
mostly borne singly, sometimes in cymiform to racemiform arrays (4–6 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, subcylindric, 3.5–4 mm, sericeous to villous; pappi off-white to reddish brown, 6.5–8 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria albida |
Ericameria fasciculata |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering summer–fall, occasionally in spring. |
Habitat | Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils | Sandy soils |
Elevation | 300–1800 m (1000–5900 ft) | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; UT
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CA |
Discussion | Ericameria albida is common in the Great Basin region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Ericameria fasciculata is known only from near Monterey and Carmel bays (Monterey County). It probably hybridizes with E. ericoides. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 54. | FNA vol. 20, p. 59. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Bigelowia albida, Chrysothamnus albidus | Chrysoma fasciculata, Haplopappus eastwoodiae |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 55: 86. (1995) | (Eastwood) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 36. (1918) |
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