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Bigelow's rabbitbrush

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broadscale rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 15–120 cm. Plants 130–200 cm.
Stems

whitish, nearly leafless at flowering, loosely tomentose.

white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

Leaves

mostly grayish white;

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

whitish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 15–45 × 1–2 mm, faces loosely tomentose.

Involucres

10.5–12.5 mm.

7.5–10.5 mm.

Corollas

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–9.5 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, lobes 0.6–1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages equaling or shorter than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

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

15–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces densely tomentulose, inner glabrous.

Cypselae

glabrous;

pappi 7.2–11 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.8–7.6 mm.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. bigelovii

Ericameria nauseosa var. latisquamea

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering fall.
Habitat Dry slopes and mesas Dry streambeds and arroyos
Elevation 1300–2200 m (4300–7200 ft) 1200–2200 m (3900–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 64. FNA vol. 20, p. 66.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria nauseosa 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
E. nauseosa var. arenaria, E. nauseosa var. bernardina, 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. 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 Bigelowia graveolens var. latisquamea, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. latisquameus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 85. (1993) (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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