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Habit Plants 40–60 cm.
Stems

yellowish green, moderately leafy at flowering, tomentum compact.

Leaves

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces tomentulose to densely tomentose.

Involucres

11.2–16 mm.

Corollas

9.8–11.8 mm, tubes puberulent or glabrous, lobes 0.7–0.9 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

16–25, apices erect, acute to short-acuminate, outer abaxial faces tomentose or glabrous, inner often glabrous.

Cypselae

glabrous or densely hairy;

pappi 9.5–12 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. turbinata

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dunes and deep sands, saltbush, ephedra, juniper, and greasewood communities
Elevation 1300–1700 m (4300–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 69.
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. salicifolia, E. nauseosa var. speciosa, E. nauseosa var. texensis, E. nauseosa var. washoensis
Synonyms Bigelowia turbinata, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. turbinatus, E. nauseosas subsp. turbinata
Name authority (M. E. Jones) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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