Ericameria laricifolia |
Ericameria winwardii |
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turpentine bush, turpentine-brush |
Winward's goldenbush |
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Habit | Plants 30–100 cm. | Plants 5–20 cm. |
Stems | erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, gland-dotted, resinous. |
stems prostrate or ascending to erect, green when young (± concealed by tomentum), becoming tan to brown, moderately branched, densely floccose-tomentose, eglandular. |
Leaves | blades ascending, sometimes spreading when older, filiform to narrowly oblanceolate (adaxially sulcate to concave), 10–20 × 1–2 mm, midnerves not evident, apices acute, sometimes apiculate, faces glabrous, regularly gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous; axillary leaf fascicles sometimes present, shorter than subtending leaves. |
ascending; blades elliptic or oblanceolate (flat), 6–15 × 2.5–5 mm, midnerves prominent, apices acute (often curved downward), faces densely silvery white floccose-tomentose, eglandular; fascicles absent. |
Peduncles | 3–15 mm (bracts 3–20+, mostly leaflike, distal scalelike). |
1–5 mm (tomentose, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like). |
Involucres | turbinate, 3–5 × 3–5 mm. |
obconic, 9–12 × 3–4 mm. |
Ray florets | 3–6; laminae 4–5 × 1–2 mm. |
0. |
Disc florets | 6–16; corollas 5–6 mm. |
4–9; corollas ca. 9 mm. |
Phyllaries | 12–20 in 3–4 series, tan, linear to lanceolate, 1–3.5 × 0.5–1 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, sometimes herbaceous-tipped, erect, midnerves raised, somewhat expanded apically, subapical resin ducts usually present, (margins scarious to narrowly membranous, glabrous or ciliate) apices erect, acute, sometimes apiculate, abaxial faces glabrous. |
11–15 in 2–3 series, lanceolate or elliptic to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 × 0.8–1.3 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, inner mostly chartaceous or herbaceous-tipped, midnerves conspicuous, raised, (margins: outer herbaceous, entire, floccose-tomentose, inner narrowly scarious, minutely lacerate) apices acute to acuminate, outer abaxial faces floccose-tomentose, inner glabrate. |
Heads | in irregular cymiform arrays (to 7 cm wide). |
usually borne singly, sometimes (2–3) in racemiform arrays (5–20 mm wide). |
Cypselae | tan to brown, turbinate to narrowly oblanceolate, 3.5–4 mm (ribs ca. 5), villous; pappi off-white to brown, 3.5–5 mm. |
tan to brown, narrowly oblanceoloid, 5–7 mm (5-ribbed), densely sericeous; pappi tan, 8–9 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
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Ericameria laricifolia |
Ericameria winwardii |
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Phenology | Flowering fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Rocky, desert mountains on slopes, mesas, canyons, and rock walls | Silty-clay and clay-shale slopes |
Elevation | 1000–2000 m (3300–6600 ft) | 2000–2200 m (6600–7200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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ID; WY |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 60. | FNA vol. 20, p. 77. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria |
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Synonyms | Haplopappus laricifolius | E. discoidea var. winwardii |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Shinners: Field & Lab. 18: 27. (1950) | (Dorn & Delmatier) R. P. Roberts & Urbatsch: Sida 21: 1562. (2005) |
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