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Texas rabbitbrush

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Bernardina rabbitbrush, San Bernardino rubber rabbitbrush

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.

Ericameria nauseosa var. texensis

Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina

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
from FNA
NM; TX
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from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety texensis is known from the Guadalupe Mountains.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 69. FNA vol. 20, p. 64.
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. speciosa, E. nauseosa var. turbinata, E. nauseosa var. washoensis
E. nauseosa var. arenaria, 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. speciosa, E. nauseosa var. texensis, E. nauseosa var. turbinata, E. nauseosa var. washoensis
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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