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willowlike rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 40–60 cm. Plants 60–120 cm.
Stems

yellowish green, moderately leafy at flowering, tomentum compact.

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

Leaves

grayish green;

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

grayish green;

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

Involucres

11.2–16 mm.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

Corollas

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

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

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

Cypselae

glabrous or densely hairy;

pappi 9.5–12 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. turbinata

Ericameria nauseosa var. salicifolia

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering later summer–fall.
Habitat Dunes and deep sands, saltbush, ephedra, juniper, and greasewood communities Sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, mountain brush, and aspen communities
Elevation 1300–1700 m (4300–5600 ft) 1300–2900 m (4300–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
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. 69. FNA vol. 20, p. 68.
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. texensis, 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. 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 Bigelowia turbinata, Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. turbinatus, E. nauseosas subsp. turbinata Chrysothamnus salicifolius, Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. salicifolius
Name authority (M. E. Jones) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993) (Rydberg) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 87. (1993)
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