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Bernardina rabbitbrush, San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 50–150 cm.
Stems

yellowish green, becoming whitish, leafy, compactly tomentose.

Leaves

mostly greenish yellow;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–2 mm, faces ± tomentose.

Involucres

10–14 mm.

Corollas

10–12 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.7–2.3 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

13–20 (in vertical ranks), apices erect, acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or tomentose.

Cypselae

densely sericeous;

pappi 7–8 mm.

Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open yellow-pine forests
Elevation 1200–3000 m (3900–9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 64.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria nauseosa
Sibling taxa
E. nauseosa var. arenaria, E. nauseosa var. bigelovii, E. nauseosa var. ceruminosa, E. nauseosa var. graveolens, E. nauseosa var. hololeuca, E. nauseosa var. iridis, E. nauseosa var. juncea, E. nauseosa var. latisquamea, E. nauseosa var. leiosperma, E. nauseosa var. mohavensis, E. nauseosa var. nana, E. nauseosa var. nauseosa, E. nauseosa var. nitida, E. nauseosa var. oreophila, E. nauseosa var. psilocarpa, E. nauseosa var. salicifolia, E. nauseosa var. speciosa, E. nauseosa var. texensis, E. nauseosa var. turbinata, E. nauseosa var. washoensis
Synonyms Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. bernardinus
Name authority (H. M. Hall) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 85. (1993)
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