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low rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 10–20 cm.
Leaves

crowded, gray;

blades 1-nerved, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 10–15 × 2–3 mm, faces densely tomentose, eglandular;

distalmost not overtopping arrays.

Involucres

10–12 mm.

Florets

10–18;

corollas 10–12 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely villous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes 1.4–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

ca. 16, chartaceous, apices erect (outer sometimes herbaceous, reddish), abruptly acute.

Heads

usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. imula

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry flats and yellow-pine forests
Elevation 2000–2200 m (6600–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety imula is known only from southern San Bernardino County.

(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. howardii, 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 Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. imulus
Name authority (H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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