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common rabbit-bush, rubber rabbitbrush, showy common rabbit-brush, showy rabbitbrush

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dwarf rabbitbrush, little rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 40–200 cm (shorter in some alpine forms). Plants 10–30 cm.
Stems

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

Leaves

dark green to grayish white;

blades 1-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 30–70 × 0.3–1.5(–2.5) mm, faces usually loosely, rarely compactly, tomentose.

dark green to grayish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform to linear, 30–40 × 1–3 mm, faces compactly tomentose.

Involucres

7.5–13.5 mm.

8–13 mm.

Corollas

8.7–13 mm, tubes tomentose or glabrous, lobes 1.1–2.1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7.5–10 mm, tubes glabrous or moderately hairy, lobes 1.6–2.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

12–28, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose (especially outer), sometimes sparsely.

14–18, apices erect, acute to obtuse, outer abaxial faces sparsely tomentose, inner glabrous.

Cypselae

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–9 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. speciosa

Ericameria nauseosa var. nana

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry habitats, including juniper-sage, yellow pine, and pinyon communities Dry, rocky ridges and cliffs
Elevation 50–3500 m (200–11500 ft) 1200–2000 m (3900–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
ID; OR; WA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety speciosa intergrades with vars. hololeuca and oreophila. Stabilized hybrids with Ericameria discoidea occur in Mono County, California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20. 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. 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. 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. 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 speciosus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. albicaulis, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. speciosus Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. nanus, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. nanus
Name authority (Nuttall) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993) (Cronquist) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993)
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