Flora of North America species comparison

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Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca
Photo is of parent taxon

common rabbitbrush, white rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 40–120 cm (pleasantly fragrant).
Stems

whitish, leafy, densely to loosely tomentose.
Leaves

whitish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform to linear, 10–35 × 1–2 mm, faces tomentose.
Involucres

7–9 mm.
Corollas

7–9.5 mm, tubes puberulent to cobwebby, lobes 0.5–1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.
Cypselae

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.
Phyllarie

14–16, apices erect, obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose.
2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Well-drained, gravelly or sandy slopes
Elevation 100–2500 m (300–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; ID; NM; NV; OR; UT
[BONAP county map]
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. ceruminosa, E. nauseosa var. graveolens, 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 Bigelowia graveolens var. hololeuca, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. hololeucus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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