The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links
Photo is of parent taxon

low rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Photo is of parent taxon

Parry's rabbitbrush, Salmon River rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 10–20 cm. Plants 30–60 cm.
Leaves

crowded, gray;

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

distalmost not overtopping 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

10–12 mm.

10–12 mm.

Florets

10–18;

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

(4–)5–6;

corollas pale yellow, 7.5–10 mm, tubes distally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

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

(11–)13–17(–19), chartaceous, outer herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, acuminate (glabrous, viscidulous).

Heads

usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays.

usually 4–8 in lax (much branched), racemiform to cymiform-paniculiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. imula

Ericameria parryi var. salmonensis

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Dry flats and yellow-pine forests Barren, rocky soils
Elevation 2000–2200 m (6600–7200 ft) 1400–1800 m (4600–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
ID
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety imula is known only from southern San Bernardino County.

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

Variety salmonensis grows along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and its tributaries.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 73. FNA vol. 20, p. 75.
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. 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
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. montana, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. imulus Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. salmonensis
Name authority (H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
Web links