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Bigelow's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 15–120 cm.
Stems

whitish, nearly leafless at flowering, loosely tomentose.

Leaves

mostly grayish white;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 15–30 × 0.5–1 mm, faces tomentulose.

Involucres

10.5–12.5 mm.

Corollas

9–11 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, lobes 0.8–1.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

14–18(–25), apices erect, acute to acuminate, abaxial faces tomentulose.

Cypselae

glabrous;

pappi 7.2–11 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. bigelovii

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry slopes and mesas
Elevation 1300–2200 m (4300–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
[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. bernardina, 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 Linosyris bigelovii, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. bigelovii
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 85. (1993)
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