Ericameria ericoides |
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California goldenbush, California heathgoldenrod, heather goldenweed, mock heather |
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Habit | Plants 30–150 cm. |
Stems | ascending to erect, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, resinous. |
Leaves | ascending to spreading; blades filiform (terete or adaxially sulcate), 3–18(–23) × 0.3–1 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous or hairy, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous; axillary fascicles of 2–12 leaves, shorter than subtending leaves. |
Peduncles | 1–30 mm (bracts 4+, leaflike). |
Involucres | subcampanulate, 5–8 × 2.5–4.5 mm. |
Ray florets | 2–6; laminae 4–6 × 1–2 mm. |
Disc florets | 5–14; corollas 5.5–8 mm. |
Phyllaries | 16–24 in 3–5 series, mostly tan, ovate to elliptic, 2.5–7 × 0.6–1.5 mm, unequal, outer ± herbaceous or herbaceous-appendaged, mid and inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves raised, subapical resin ducts darker, ± thickened, expanded apically, (margins ciliate) apices erect, acute to acuminate or mucronate to cuspidate, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
Heads | in cymiform to paniculiform arrays (2–9 cm wide). |
Cypselae | tan to brown, subcylindric, 2.5–4 mm (ribs 8–10), glabrous or hairy, more densely distally; pappi off-white to brown, 5–7 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
Ericameria ericoides |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall, occasionally in spring. |
Habitat | Sand dunes or sand hills along and near coast |
Elevation | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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Discussion | Ericameria ericoides ranges from Los Angeles to Sonoma counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 59. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
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Synonyms | Diplopappus ericoides, Haplopappus ericoides, Haplopappus ericoides subsp. blakei |
Name authority | (Lessing) Jepson: Fl. W. Calif., 559. (1901) |
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