Ericameria cooperi
Ericameria compacta
Cooper's goldenbush
Charleston Mountain goldenbush
erect to spreading, green when young, becoming tan, branched proximally, often with scattered, crinkled hairs and short- stipitate-glandular hairs.
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.
1–15 mm (bracts 0–3, usually resembling phyllaries).
narrowly campanulate, 12–15 × 4.5–5.5 mm.
0.
10–16;
corollas 9.1–11.5 mm.
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.
usually in paniculiform or cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 6–10 mm, glabrate or apically sparsely hairy;
pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 7–9 mm.
= 18.
Ericameria cooperi
Ericameria compacta
Varieties 2 (1 in the flora).
Ericameria cooperi var. bajacalifornica (Urbatsch & Wussow) Urbatsch is known only from Mexico (Baja California).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
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