Ericameria nauseosa var. texensis |
Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina |
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Texas rabbitbrush |
Bernardina rabbitbrush, San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush |
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Habit | Plants 20–40(–50) cm. | Plants 50–150 cm. |
Stems | whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose. |
yellowish green, becoming whitish, leafy, compactly tomentose. |
Leaves | grayish green; blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–35 × 1(–1.5) mm, faces loosely tomentulose. |
mostly greenish yellow; blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–2 mm, faces ± tomentose. |
Involucres | 8–11.5 mm. |
10–14 mm. |
Corollas | 8.4–10.9 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely puberulent, lobes 0.6–1.3 mm, glabrous; style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions. |
10–12 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.7–2.3 mm, glabrous; style appendages longer than stigmatic portions. |
Phyllaries | 16–23 (outer margins ciliate), apices erect, acute to obtuse (outer) to acuminate (inner), outer abaxial faces tomentose, glabrescent. |
13–20 (in vertical ranks), apices erect, acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or tomentose. |
Cypselae | glabrous; pappi 5.2–7.4 mm. |
densely sericeous; pappi 7–8 mm. |
2n | = 18. |
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Ericameria nauseosa var. texensis |
Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina |
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Phenology | Flowering fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Limestone cliffs and among boulders, less common on gravel alluvium of streambeds, associated with bigtooth maple, hornbeam, madrone, and yellow pine woodlands | Open yellow-pine forests |
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | 1200–3000 m (3900–9800 ft) |
Distribution |
NM; TX |
CA; Mexico (Baja California) |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Variety texensis is known from the Guadalupe Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 69. | FNA vol. 20, p. 64. |
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Synonyms | Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. texensis | Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. bernardinus |
Name authority | (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993) | (H. M. Hall) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 85. (1993) |
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