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Ericameria nauseosa var. leiosperma

Ericameria nauseosa var. nitida
Photo is of parent taxon

common rabbitbrush, smooth-fruit rabbitbrush
Photo is of parent taxon

shiny-bract rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 25–60 cm. Plants 60–150 cm.
Stems

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

yellowish green, leafy at flowering, densely tomentose.
Leaves

yellowish green;

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

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.
Involucres

8–11.5 mm.

10–12.5 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.

9.5–11 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, lobes 0.7–1 mm, glabrous or villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.
Phyllaries

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

13–19 (outer weakly keeled), apices erect, acute (outer) or acute to obtuse (inner), outer abaxial faces scurfy-tomentulose, inner glabrous.
Cypselae

glabrous;

pappi 3–6.6 mm.

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.
2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. leiosperma

Ericameria nauseosa var. nitida
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Gravelly and sandy soils, rocky crevices Sandy gravels of dry streambeds
Elevation 700–2800 m (2300–9200 ft) 1200–1800 m (3900–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 66. FNA vol. 20, p. 67.
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. 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
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. leiosperma, E. nauseosa var. mohavensis, E. nauseosa var. nana, E. nauseosa var. nauseosa, 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 Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. nitidus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. nitidus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993) (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993)
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