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Ericameria nauseosa var. juncea
Photo is of parent taxon

rush rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 40–70 cm.
Stems

yellowish green, usually leafless at flowering, compactly tomentose.
Leaves

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.7–1 mm, faces compactly tomentose.
Involucres

9.5–12 mm.
Corollas

7–8.5 mm, tubes hairy, lobes 0.7–0.9 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.
Phyllaries

22–25, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose or glabrate.
Cypselae

hairy;

pappi 5.6–7.6 mm.
2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. juncea
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Blackbrush, matchweed, shadscale, and pinyon-juniper communities
Elevation 1200–1800 m (3900–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 66.
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. hololeuca, E. nauseosa var. iridis, 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 juncea, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. junceus
Name authority (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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