Ericameria parryi var. aspera |
Ericameria parryi var. montana |
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rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush |
mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush |
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Habit | Plants 15–70 cm. | Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched). |
Leaves | moderately crowded, gray-green; blades 1-nerved, oblanceolate, 15–50 × 1–3 mm, faces abundantly stipitate-glandular; distalmost ± equaling arrays. |
moderately crowded, green; blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–35 × 1–2 mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous; distal overtopping arrays. |
Involucres | 11–15 mm. |
10–11.5 mm. |
Florets | 5–10; corollas yellow, 8.3–9.5 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm. |
(4–)5–12; corollas yellow, 9–10 mm, tubes finely glandular-puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm. |
Phyllaries | 9–13, whitish, tan, or purplish, apices erect to spreading, acute. |
(11–)13–18, ± chartaceous, outer apices long-acuminate, herbaceous, inner acuminate (viscidulous). |
Heads | 4–10+ in (sometimes branched) racemiform arrays. |
2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria parryi var. aspera |
Ericameria parryi var. montana |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Dry forests to alpine barrens in pumice or gravel | Rocky slopes near timberline |
Elevation | 1900–3300 m (6200–10800 ft) | ca. 2900 m (ca. 9500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV |
ID; MT |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Variety montana is known only from Red Conglomerate Peaks at the Idaho/Montana border. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 73. | FNA vol. 20, p. 74. |
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Synonyms | Chrysothamnus asper, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. asper | Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993) | (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) |
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