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crisped goldenbush

Habit Plants 20–40 cm.
Stems

erect, green when young, much branched, short-stipitate-glandular.

Leaves

erect to ascending;

blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 15–30 × 3–8 mm, midnerves and 2 smaller collateral veins evident, (margins crisped) apices acute, often apiculate, faces short-stipitate-glandular, resinous.

Peduncles

5–40 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike).

Involucres

campanulate, 12.5–15 × 5–9 mm.

Ray florets

0.

Disc florets

14–24;

corollas 9.5–10.8 mm.

Phyllaries

24–35 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 8–12 × 1–2.5 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous to chartaceous, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves slightly raised, evident entire length of bodies, (margins ciliate) apices acute to acuminate or cuspidate (outer), appendages slender (outer), abaxial faces glabrous.

Heads

usually in loose, paniculiform or congested, cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.

Cypselae

tan to reddish, elliptic, 6.5–8.5 mm, sparsely, evenly strigose;

pappi usually off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 8–9.5 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria crispa

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat On open slopes of weathered soils, with manzanita, fir, pine
Elevation 2400–3100 m (7900–10200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
UT
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 57.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria
Sibling taxa
E. albida, E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, E. compacta, E. cooperi, 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 crispus
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Neson: Phytologia 68: 152. (1990)
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