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crisped goldenbush

pine goldenweed, pine-bush

Habit Plants 20–40 cm. Plants 50–300 cm.
Stems

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

erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.

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.

ascending to spreading;

blades linear to narrowly oblanceolate (terete or adaxially sulcate), 12–35 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous or moderately hairy, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous;

axillary fascicles of 4–10 leaves, shorter than subtending leaves.

Peduncles

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

3–30 mm (leafy).

Involucres

campanulate, 12.5–15 × 5–9 mm.

subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.

Ray florets

0.

3–10;

laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.

Disc florets

14–24;

corollas 9.5–10.8 mm.

11–25;

corollas 5–8 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.

20–26 in 4–6 series, tan, ovate to lanceolate or oblong, 3–7 × 1–1.8 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, outermost ± herbaceous-appendaged, midnerves thickened, darker resin ducts, slightly expanded apically, (margins membranous, fimbriate, especially distally) apices erect, acuminate to cuspidate, inner and mid acute to acuminate, abaxial faces usually glabrous, resinous.

Heads

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

in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).

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.

tan to brown, subobovoid, 3.5–5 mm, glabrous or moderately hairy, more densely distally;

pappi off-white to brown, 6–7.5 mm.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria crispa

Ericameria pinifolia

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall(–spring).
Habitat On open slopes of weathered soils, with manzanita, fir, pine Open, sandy to stony soils in chaparral, oak woodland, or scrub in near coastal communities
Elevation 2400–3100 m (7900–10200 ft) 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
UT
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

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

Of conservation concern.

Ericameria pinifolia ranges from Ventura County to northern Baja California. It blooms primarily in late summer and fall; it sometimes produces scattered, larger flowering heads in spring.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 57. FNA vol. 20, p. 75.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria 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
E. albida, E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, E. compacta, 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. resinosa, E. suffruticosa, E. teretifolia, E. watsonii, E. winwardii, E. zionis
Synonyms Haplopappus crispus Haplopappus pinifolius
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Neson: Phytologia 68: 152. (1990) (A. Gray) H. M. Hall: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 3: 54. (1907)
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