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desert rabbitbrush, sharp bract rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 50–70 cm.
Stems

yellowish green, moderately leafy to nearly leafless, compact tomentose.

Leaves

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.7–1 mm, faces tomentulose.

Involucres

7–8.5 mm.

Corollas

6–7.5 mm, tubes glabrous, lobes 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

16–26 (in vertical ranks), apices recurved, acuminate, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate, glutinous.

Cypselae

hairy;

pappi 4.5–6.7 mm.

Ericameria nauseosa var. ceruminosa

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Gravelly arroyos
Elevation 700–1700 m (2300–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety ceruminosa grows in the Mojave Desert.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 65.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria nauseosa
Sibling taxa
E. nauseosa var. arenaria, E. nauseosa var. bernardina, E. nauseosa var. bigelovii, 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 ceruminosus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. ceruminosus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. ceruminosus
Name authority (Durand & Hilgard) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 85. (1993)
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