Ericameria cooperi
Ericameria zionis
Cooper's goldenbush
subalpine goldenbush, subalpine or Cedar Breaks goldenbush
decumbent to ascending, green when young, often reddish tinged, soon reddish brown to brown, branched, twigs long-stipitate-glandular (sometimes with crinkly hairs interspersed).
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.
3–15 mm (long-stipitate-glandular, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).
turbinate to narrowly campanulate, 14–22 × 6–8 mm.
0.
10–21;
corollas 9.5–12 mm.
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.
in (leafy) congested, paniculiform to cymiform arrays (1–4 cm wide).
tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 7–8 mm, glabrous or apically hairy;
pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 9–9.5 mm.
= 18 [as Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. compactus].
Ericameria cooperi
Ericameria zionis
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.
Ericameria zionis is known from southern Utah.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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