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common rabbitbrush, white rabbitbrush

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common rabbitbrush, smooth-fruit rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 40–120 cm (pleasantly fragrant). Plants 25–60 cm.
Stems

whitish, leafy, densely to loosely tomentose.

yellowish green, often leafless at flowering, densely, compactly tomentose.

Leaves

whitish;

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

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.8–1 mm, faces glabrate.

Involucres

7–9 mm.

8–11.5 mm.

Corollas

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

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

5–8.5 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, lobes 0.5–1.1 mm (erect to incurved), glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Cypselae

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.

glabrous;

pappi 3–6.6 mm.

Phyllarie(s)

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

17–31, apices erect, acute to obtuse, abaxial faces glabrous.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca

Ericameria nauseosa var. leiosperma

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Well-drained, gravelly or sandy slopes Gravelly and sandy soils, rocky crevices
Elevation 100–2500 m (300–8200 ft) 700–2800 m (2300–9200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; ID; NM; NV; OR; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 65. 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. 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
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. latisquamea, 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 Bigelowia leiosperma, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. leiospermus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993) (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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