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one-head rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 5–40 cm (rigid).
Leaves

crowded, grayish;

blades mostly 1-nerved, linear, 10–30 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces sparsely to densely tomentulose, viscidulous;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

10–11 mm.

Florets

5–7;

corollas 8–9 mm, tubes sparsely strigose, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.5–1.8 mm.

Phyllaries

8–12, thinly chartaceous, apices erect to spreading, attenuate.

Heads

1–2(–4) at branch tips.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. monocephala

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open subalpine forests, talus, and alpine barrens
Elevation 2800–3700 m (9200–12100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety monocephala is known from the Sierra Nevada.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 74.
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. imula, E. parryi var. latior, E. parryi var. montana, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus monocephalus, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. monocephalus
Name authority (A. Nelson & P. B. Kennedy) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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