Ericameria parryi var. aspera |
Ericameria parryi var. salmonensis |
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rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush |
Parry's rabbitbrush, Salmon River rabbitbrush |
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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 |
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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 |
CA; NV |
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 73. | FNA vol. 20, p. 75. |
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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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