Ericameria parryi var. latior |
Ericameria parryi var. parryi |
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broadleaf rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush, wideleaf rabbitbrush |
Parry's rabbitbrush |
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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. |
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Ericameria parryi var. latior |
Ericameria parryi var. parryi |
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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 |
CA |
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY |
Discussion | Variety parryi is widespread in the Rocky Mountain region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 74. | FNA vol. 20, p. 75. |
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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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