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broadleaf rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush, wideleaf rabbitbrush

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Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–100 cm. Plants 30–100 cm.
Leaves

crowded, green;

blades 1–3-nerved, oblanceolate, 45–70 × 5–14 mm, faces glabrous or puberulent, gland-dotted;

distalmost shorter than arrays.

usually crowded, green;

blades 3-nerved (only midnerves prominent), linear, 30–80 × 2–3 mm, faces glabrous or puberulent, often minutely stipitate-glandular, ± resinous;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

12–14 mm.

9–12 mm.

Florets

5–7;

corollas ca. 10 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes about 2.5 mm.

8–20;

corollas yellow, 7.9–10 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–2.1 mm.

Phyllaries

11–15, chartaceous, apices erect or ± recurved, attenuate (mostly glabrous).

10–15, mostly chartaceous, outermost sometimes herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, attenuate.

Heads

10+ in cymiform arrays.

usually 5–12+ in racemiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. latior

Ericameria parryi var. parryi

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open pine and fir forests Open, dry hillsides and plains
Elevation 700–1900 m (2300–6200 ft) 2000–2900 m (6600–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY
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Discussion

Variety parryi is widespread in the Rocky Mountain region.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 74. 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. imula, 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. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. latior
Name authority (H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) unknown
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