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Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 15–60 cm.
Leaves

crowded, greenish yellow;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 25–40 × 1–3 mm, faces tomentulose, eglandular;

distalmost shorter than arrays.

Involucres

10.5–13 mm.

Florets

5–8;

corollas pale yellow, 8–9.1 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, throats abruptly dilated, lobes 0.7–1 mm.

Phyllaries

12–15, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, otherwise chartaceous, apices erect (tan or greenish), attenuate.

Heads

5–10+ in racemiform arrays.

Ericameria parryi var. affinis

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Mountain slopes, clay or gravelly soils
Elevation 1600–2500 m (5200–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 72.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria parryi
Sibling taxa
E. parryi var. aspera, E. parryi var. attenuata, E. parryi var. howardii, E. parryi var. imula, E. parryi var. latior, E. parryi var. monocephala, E. parryi var. montana, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus affinis, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. affinis, Chrysothamnus parryi var. affinis
Name authority (A. Nelson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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