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rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush

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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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

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
from FNA
CA; NV
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
ID; MT
[BONAP county map]
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.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 73. FNA vol. 20, p. 74.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria parryi Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria parryi
Sibling taxa
E. parryi var. affinis, 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
E. parryi var. affinis, 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. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
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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