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Howard's rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–60 cm.
Leaves

crowded, gray;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–40 × ca. 1 mm, faces tomentose, eglandular;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

9.5–12 mm.

Florets

5–7;

corollas pale yellow, 8–10.7 mm, tubes hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.2–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

12–20, mostly chartaceous, apices spreading, acuminate.

Heads

5–10+ in compact, racemiform arrays, or terminal glomerules.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. howardii

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Upland slopes, tablelands
Elevation 200–2900 m (700–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NE; NM; UT; WY
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety howardii grows within and east of the Rocky Mountains.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 73.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria > Ericameria parryi
Sibling taxa
E. parryi var. affinis, E. parryi var. aspera, E. parryi var. attenuata, 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 Linosyris howardii, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. howardii
Name authority (Parry ex A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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