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broadscale rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 130–200 cm.
Stems

white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

Leaves

whitish;

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

Involucres

7.5–10.5 mm.

Corollas

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

style appendages equaling or shorter than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

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

Cypselae

densely hairy;

pappi 4.8–7.6 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. latisquamea

Phenology Flowering fall.
Habitat Dry streambeds and arroyos
Elevation 1200–2200 m (3900–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Sonora)
[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. 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 Bigelowia graveolens var. latisquamea, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. latisquameus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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