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Ericameria lignumviridis

Greenwood's goldenbush, heath-goldenrod
Habit Plants 10–30 cm.
Stems

erect, green when young, becoming tan, branched, glabrous, resinous.
Leaves

ascending;

blades oblanceolate, 7–30 × 1.5–3 mm, midnerves evident, apices acute to apiculate, faces glabrous, resinous;

axillary leaf fascicles usually present, much shorter than subtending leaves.
Peduncles

1–12 mm (bracts 0–3, scalelike).
Involucres

obconic, 12–15 × 4–8 mm.
Ray florets

5–8;

laminae 3–4 × 0.7–2 mm.
Disc florets

8–12;

corollas 9–10.5 mm.
Phyllaries

18–28 in 3–4 series, tan, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 8–12 × 1–2.5 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous-tipped, inner mostly chartaceous, apices erect, acute or acuminate to cuspidate, abaxial faces glabrous, resinous.
Heads

(3–8) in cymiform arrays.
Cypselae

tan to reddish, ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm, densely hairy;

pappi off-white to brown, 7.5–9 mm.

Ericameria lignumviridis
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Riparian areas with willows, nettles, and other bottomland plants
Elevation ca. 1900 m (ca. 6200 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. 60.
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. crispa, E. cuneata, E. discoidea, E. ericoides, E. fasciculata, E. gilmanii, E. greenei, E. laricifolia, 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 lignumviridis
Name authority (S. L. Welsh) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 78: 64. (1995)
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