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Ericameria nauseosa var. salicifolia
Photo is of parent taxon

willowlike rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 60–120 cm.
Stems

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.
Leaves

grayish green;

blades mostly 3–5-nerved, broadly linear, 40–90 × 3–6(–10) mm, faces tomentulose.
Involucres

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.
Corollas

7.5–9.5 mm, tubes minutely puberulent, lobes 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.
Phyllaries

11–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces glabrous or with apical tufts of hairs, inner frequently glabrous.
Cypselae

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

Ericameria nauseosa var. salicifolia
Phenology Flowering later summer–fall.
Habitat Sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, mountain brush, and aspen communities
Elevation 1300–2900 m (4300–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
UT
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety salicifolia is known from Cache to Sevier counties. Intermediates between var. salicifolia and var. graveolens have been observed.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 68.
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. nitida, E. nauseosa var. oreophila, E. nauseosa var. psilocarpa, E. nauseosa var. speciosa, E. nauseosa var. texensis, E. nauseosa var. turbinata, E. nauseosa var. washoensis
Synonyms Chrysothamnus salicifolius, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. salicifolius
Name authority (Rydberg) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993)
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