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Ericameria nauseosa var. nitida

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca
Photo is of parent taxon

shiny-bract rabbitbrush
Photo is of parent taxon

common rabbitbrush, white rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 60–150 cm. Plants 40–120 cm (pleasantly fragrant).
Stems

yellowish green, leafy at flowering, densely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, densely to loosely tomentose.
Leaves

yellowish green;

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

whitish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform to linear, 10–35 × 1–2 mm, faces tomentose.
Involucres

10–12.5 mm.

7–9 mm.
Corollas

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–9.5 mm, tubes puberulent to cobwebby, lobes 0.5–1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.
Cypselae

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.
Phyllarie(s)

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

14–16, apices erect, obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose.
2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. nitida

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Sandy gravels of dry streambeds Well-drained, gravelly or sandy slopes
Elevation 1200–1800 m (3900–5900 ft) 100–2500 m (300–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; CA; ID; NM; NV; OR; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 67. FNA vol. 20, p. 65.
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. 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
E. nauseosa var. arenaria, E. nauseosa var. bernardina, E. nauseosa var. bigelovii, E. nauseosa var. ceruminosa, E. nauseosa var. graveolens, 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. 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 Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. nitidus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. nitidus Bigelowia graveolens var. hololeuca, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. hololeucus
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993) (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 86. (1993)
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