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Howard's rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–60 cm. Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched).
Leaves

crowded, gray;

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

distalmost overtopping arrays.

moderately crowded, green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–35 × 1–2 mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous;

distal overtopping arrays.

Involucres

9.5–12 mm.

10–11.5 mm.

Florets

5–7;

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

(4–)5–12;

corollas yellow, 9–10 mm, tubes finely glandular-puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

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

(11–)13–18, ± chartaceous, outer apices long-acuminate, herbaceous, inner acuminate (viscidulous).

Heads

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

2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. howardii

Ericameria parryi var. montana

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

Variety howardii grows within and east of the Rocky Mountains.

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

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. 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
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 Linosyris howardii, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. howardii Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus
Name authority (Parry ex A. Gray) 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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