Ericameria parryi var. imula |
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low rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Dry flats and yellow-pine forests |
Elevation | 2000–2200 m (6600–7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
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. |
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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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