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rubber rabbitbrush, Washoe rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–45(–100) cm.
Stems

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

Leaves

grayish green;

blades 1–3-nerved, spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–30 × 2–3 mm, faces loosely hairy.

Involucres

10–12 mm.

Corollas

7.5–9(–10) mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.3–1.6 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

Phyllaries

16–20(–30), (brownish costal nerves often evident) apices acute to obtuse, outer abaxial faces sparsely villous to tomentose, inner tomentulose.

Cypselae

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria nauseosa var. washoensis

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Rocky, open sites in juniper and pinyon grasslands
Elevation 1500–1700 m (4900–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety washoensis is known from northeastern California and northwestern Nevada.

of conservation concern

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

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. turbinata
Synonyms Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. washoensis, E. nauseosa var. washoensis
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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