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common rabbitbrush, smooth-fruit rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 25–60 cm.
Stems

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

Leaves

yellowish green;

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

Involucres

8–11.5 mm.

Corollas

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

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

Cypselae

glabrous;

pappi 3–6.6 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. leiosperma

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Gravelly and sandy soils, rocky crevices
Elevation 700–2800 m (2300–9200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; 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. 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 leiosperma, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. leiospermus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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