Ericameria arborescens |
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golden-fleece |
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Habit | Plants 10–500 cm. |
Stems | erect to spreading, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted, resinous. |
Leaves | 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 | 1–15 mm (bracts 0–7, scalelike, resembling phyllaries). |
Involucres | turbinate to subcampanulate, 4–6 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
Ray florets | 0. |
Disc florets | 10–25; corollas 4–5 mm. |
Phyllaries | 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 10 cm wide). |
Cypselae | tan to brown, narrowly turbinate, 2–3 mm (5-ribbed), hairy; pappi tan, 3.5–4.5 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
Ericameria arborescens |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Dry foothill slopes, in chaparral |
Elevation | 90–2000 m (300–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 54. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Linosyris arborescens, Haplopappus arborescens |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Greene: Man. Bot. San Francisco, 175. (1894) |
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