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Ericameria parishii var. parishii
Photo is of parent taxon

Parish's goldenbush
Habit Plants 150–500 cm (sometimes trees).
Stems

erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted, resinous.
Leaves

(crowded) usually ascending to spreading;

blades oblanceolate to oblong (flat to slightly concave), 25–70 × 3–12 mm, midnerves evident abaxially, apices acute, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted (in pits), resinous;

axillary fascicles usually absent.
Peduncles

1–5 mm (bracts 0–5, scalelike).
Involucres

turbinate to subcampanulate, 4–6 × 3.5–4.5 mm.
Ray florets

0.
Disc florets

7–15;

corollas 4–5 mm.
Phyllaries

18–24 in 3–4 series, tan, narrowly triangular to lanceolate, 1–5 × 0.5–1 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, midnerves raised, evident, usually uniform in width, sometimes slightly dilated apically, apices acute, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely puberulent, resinous.
Heads

in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 9 cm wide).
Cypselae

tan to brown, narrowly ellipsoid, 2–3 mm, moderately hairy to sericeous;

pappi off-white to brown, 4–5 mm.
2n

= 18.

Ericameria parishii var. parishii
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry hillsides in chaparral and open forests, increases after fires
Elevation 400–2200 m (1300–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
Discussion

Variety parishii grows in the southern third of California. It has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of Ericameria arborescens in Haplopappus.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 71.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria parishii
Name authority unknown
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