Flora of North America species comparison

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Ericameria albida

Ericameria paniculata

white-flower rabbitbrush

black-banded rabbitbrush, Mojave rabbitbrush, punctate rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 10–150 cm. Plants 50–200 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, often black-banded or splotched (from fungal infections), fastigiately branched, glabrous, 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;

blades filiform (adaxially sulcate), 10–35 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves obscure, apices apiculate, faces glabrous, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous;

axillary fascicles usually absent.
Peduncles

usually less than 10 mm (ebracteate).

2–12 mm (bracts 0–10, leaflike).
Involucres

turbinate, 6–10 × 2–4 mm.

subcylindric, 5.5–9 × 3.5–7 mm.
Ray florets

0.

0.
Disc florets

5–7;

corollas 4.7–7 mm.

5–8;

corollas 5–7 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.

13–20 in 3–5 series, tan, lanceolate to elliptic, 1–5 × 0.5–1.7 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, membranous, midnerves not or slightly raised, faint on distal 1/2, (margins entire, sometimes ciliate distally) apices erect, acute to rounded, apiculate, abaxial faces glabrous, ± resinous.
Heads

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

in paniculiform arrays (5–50 mm 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 elliptic to oblanceoloid, 3.5–4.5 mm (ribs ca. 5), sericeous;

pappi off-white to brown, 5.5–6.5 mm.
2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria albida

Ericameria paniculata
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils Stony open deserts and washes
Elevation 300–1800 m (1000–5900 ft) 400–1600 m (1300–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; UT
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from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; 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.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 54. FNA vol. 20, p. 71.
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. 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. parishii, E. parryi, E. pinifolia, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa, E. teretifolia, E. watsonii, E. winwardii, E. zionis
Synonyms Bigelowia albida, Chrysothamnus albidus Bigelowia paniculata, Chrysothamnus paniculatus
Name authority (M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 55: 86. (1995) (A. Gray) Rydberg: Fl. Rocky Mts., 1066. (1917)
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