Flora of North America species comparison

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Ericameria arborescens

Ericameria zionis

golden-fleece

subalpine goldenbush, subalpine or Cedar Breaks goldenbush
Habit Plants 10–500 cm. Plants 10–30 cm.
Stems

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

decumbent to ascending, green when young, often reddish tinged, soon reddish brown to brown, branched, twigs long-stipitate-glandular (sometimes with crinkly hairs interspersed).
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.

mostly erect or ascending;

blades spatulate (flat), 25–40 × 2.5–7 mm, midnerves (plus 2 smaller, collateral nerves) evident, apices acuminate, faces long-stipitate-glandular;

fascicles absent.
Peduncles

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

3–15 mm (long-stipitate-glandular, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).
Involucres

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

turbinate to narrowly campanulate, 14–22 × 6–8 mm.
Ray florets

0.

0.
Disc florets

10–25;

corollas 4–5 mm.

10–21;

corollas 9.5–12 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.

17–23 in 2–4 series, tan to green, lanceolate to elliptic, 10–14 × 1.6–2.7 mm, subequal (outer often slightly longer than inner), outer herbaceous or with herbaceous cusps, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves (often plus 2 collateral nerves) evident, (margins villous distally) apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular, inner sometimes glabrous.
Heads

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

in (leafy) congested, paniculiform to cymiform arrays (1–4 cm wide).
Cypselae

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

pappi tan, 3.5–4.5 mm.

tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 7–8 mm, glabrous or apically hairy;

pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 9–9.5 mm.
2n

= 18.

= 18 [as Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. compactus].

Ericameria arborescens

Ericameria zionis
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat Dry foothill slopes, in chaparral Gravelly to sandy clay soils with manzanita, spruce, fir, and pine
Elevation 90–2000 m (300–6600 ft) 2400–3100 m (7900–10200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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from FNA
UT
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Ericameria zionis is known from southern Utah.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 54. FNA vol. 20, p. 77.
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. 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
Synonyms Linosyris arborescens, Haplopappus arborescens Haplopappus zionis
Name authority (A. Gray) Greene: Man. Bot. San Francisco, 175. (1894) (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 68: 153. (1990)
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