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rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush

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Parry's rabbitbrush, Salmon River rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 15–70 cm. Plants 30–60 cm.
Leaves

moderately crowded, gray-green;

blades 1-nerved, oblanceolate, 15–50 × 1–3 mm, faces abundantly stipitate-glandular;

distalmost ± equaling arrays.

widely spaced, green;

blades 1-nerved, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–50(–80) × 1–2(–3) mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

11–15 mm.

10–12 mm.

Florets

5–10;

corollas yellow, 8.3–9.5 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm.

(4–)5–6;

corollas pale yellow, 7.5–10 mm, tubes distally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

9–13, whitish, tan, or purplish, apices erect to spreading, acute.

(11–)13–17(–19), chartaceous, outer herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, acuminate (glabrous, viscidulous).

Heads

4–10+ in (sometimes branched) racemiform arrays.

usually 4–8 in lax (much branched), racemiform to cymiform-paniculiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. aspera

Ericameria parryi var. salmonensis

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry forests to alpine barrens in pumice or gravel Barren, rocky soils
Elevation 1900–3300 m (6200–10800 ft) 1400–1800 m (4600–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
ID
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Discussion

Variety salmonensis grows along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and its tributaries.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 73. FNA vol. 20, p. 75.
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. montana, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus asper, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. asper Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. salmonensis
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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