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Ericameria arborescens

Ericameria ericoides

golden-fleece

California goldenbush, California heathgoldenrod, heather goldenweed, mock heather
Habit Plants 10–500 cm. Plants 30–150 cm.
Stems

erect to spreading, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted, resinous.

ascending to erect, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 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.

ascending to spreading;

blades filiform (terete or adaxially sulcate), 3–18(–23) × 0.3–1 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous or hairy, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous;

axillary fascicles of 2–12 leaves, shorter than subtending leaves.
Peduncles

1–15 mm (bracts 0–7, scalelike, resembling phyllaries).

1–30 mm (bracts 4+, leaflike).
Involucres

turbinate to subcampanulate, 4–6 × 3.5–4.5 mm.

subcampanulate, 5–8 × 2.5–4.5 mm.
Ray florets

0.

2–6;

laminae 4–6 × 1–2 mm.
Disc florets

10–25;

corollas 4–5 mm.

5–14;

corollas 5.5–8 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.

16–24 in 3–5 series, mostly tan, ovate to elliptic, 2.5–7 × 0.6–1.5 mm, unequal, outer ± herbaceous or herbaceous-appendaged, mid and inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves raised, subapical resin ducts darker, ± thickened, expanded apically, (margins ciliate) apices erect, acute to acuminate or mucronate to cuspidate, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely hairy.
Heads

in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 10 cm wide).

in cymiform to paniculiform arrays (2–9 cm wide).
Cypselae

tan to brown, narrowly turbinate, 2–3 mm (5-ribbed), hairy;

pappi tan, 3.5–4.5 mm.

tan to brown, subcylindric, 2.5–4 mm (ribs 8–10), glabrous or hairy, more densely distally;

pappi off-white to brown, 5–7 mm.
2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria arborescens

Ericameria ericoides
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall, occasionally in spring.
Habitat Dry foothill slopes, in chaparral Sand dunes or sand hills along and near coast
Elevation 90–2000 m (300–6600 ft) 0–500 m (0–1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Ericameria ericoides ranges from Los Angeles to Sonoma counties.

(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
E. albida, 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. 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 Linosyris arborescens, Haplopappus arborescens Diplopappus ericoides, Haplopappus ericoides, Haplopappus ericoides subsp. blakei
Name authority (A. Gray) Greene: Man. Bot. San Francisco, 175. (1894) (Lessing) Jepson: Fl. W. Calif., 559. (1901)
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