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Ericameria compacta

Charleston Mountain goldenbush
Habit Plants 15–50 cm.
Stems

erect to spreading, green when young, becoming tan, branched proximally, often with scattered, crinkled hairs and short- stipitate-glandular hairs.
Leaves

mostly erect or ascending;

blades oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 20–40 × 2–3(–5) mm, midnerves evident, apices acute to acuminate, faces short-stipitate-glandular, sometimes gland-dotted (sessile), resinous;

axillary fascicles of 1–7 reduced leaves often proximally present, distally absent.
Peduncles

1–15 mm (bracts 0–3, usually resembling phyllaries).
Involucres

narrowly campanulate, 12–15 × 4.5–5.5 mm.
Ray florets

0.
Disc florets

10–16;

corollas 9.1–11.5 mm.
Phyllaries

18–24 in (3–)4 series, tan, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 4–11 × 0.6–1.2 mm, subequal, mostly chartaceous, midnerves raised, evident, apices acute to cuspidate, herbaceous-tipped, abaxial faces resinous.
Heads

usually in paniculiform or cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
Cypselae

tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 6–10 mm, glabrate or apically sparsely hairy;

pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 7–9 mm.
2n

= 18.

Ericameria compacta
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Sheltered, rocky to gravelly slopes in pine forests
Elevation 2500–3500 m (8200–11500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 56.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria
Sibling taxa
E. albida, E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, 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
Synonyms Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. compactus, Haplopappus bloomeri var. compactus, Haplopappus compactus
Name authority (H. M. Hall) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 68: 152. (1990)
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