Ericameria albida |
Ericameria pinifolia |
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white-flower rabbitbrush |
pine goldenweed, pine-bush |
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Habit | Plants 10–150 cm. | Plants 50–300 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, 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 linear to narrowly oblanceolate (terete or adaxially sulcate), 12–35 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous or moderately hairy, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous; axillary fascicles of 4–10 leaves, shorter than subtending leaves. |
Peduncles | usually less than 10 mm (ebracteate). |
3–30 mm (leafy). |
Involucres | turbinate, 6–10 × 2–4 mm. |
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm. |
Ray florets | 0. |
3–10; laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm. |
Disc florets | 5–7; corollas 4.7–7 mm. |
11–25; corollas 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. |
20–26 in 4–6 series, tan, ovate to lanceolate or oblong, 3–7 × 1–1.8 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, outermost ± herbaceous-appendaged, midnerves thickened, darker resin ducts, slightly expanded apically, (margins membranous, fimbriate, especially distally) apices erect, acuminate to cuspidate, inner and mid acute to acuminate, abaxial faces usually glabrous, resinous. |
Heads | in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 5 cm wide). |
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm). |
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, subobovoid, 3.5–5 mm, glabrous or moderately hairy, more densely distally; pappi off-white to brown, 6–7.5 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria albida |
Ericameria pinifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall(–spring). |
Habitat | Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils | Open, sandy to stony soils in chaparral, oak woodland, or scrub in near coastal communities |
Elevation | 300–1800 m (1000–5900 ft) | 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; UT
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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. Ericameria pinifolia ranges from Ventura County to northern Baja California. It blooms primarily in late summer and fall; it sometimes produces scattered, larger flowering heads in spring. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 54. | FNA vol. 20, p. 75. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Bigelowia albida, Chrysothamnus albidus | Haplopappus pinifolius |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 55: 86. (1995) | (A. Gray) H. M. Hall: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 3: 54. (1907) |
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