Ericameria crispa |
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crisped goldenbush |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | On open slopes of weathered soils, with manzanita, fir, pine |
Elevation | 2400–3100 m (7900–10200 ft) |
Distribution |
UT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 57. |
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Synonyms | Haplopappus crispus |
Name authority | (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Neson: Phytologia 68: 152. (1990) |
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