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shiny-bract rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 60–150 cm.
Stems

yellowish green, leafy at flowering, densely tomentose.

Leaves

yellowish green;

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

Involucres

10–12.5 mm.

Corollas

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

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

Cypselae

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. nitida

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Sandy gravels of dry streambeds
Elevation 1200–1800 m (3900–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 67.
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. 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 Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. nitidus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. nitidus
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993)
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