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Ericameria parryi var. montana
Photo is of parent taxon

mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched).
Leaves

moderately crowded, green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–35 × 1–2 mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous;

distal overtopping arrays.
Involucres

10–11.5 mm.
Florets

(4–)5–12;

corollas yellow, 9–10 mm, tubes finely glandular-puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm.
Phyllaries

(11–)13–18, ± chartaceous, outer apices long-acuminate, herbaceous, inner acuminate (viscidulous).
Heads

2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly.
2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. montana
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Rocky slopes near timberline
Elevation ca. 2900 m (ca. 9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; MT
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety montana is known only from Red Conglomerate Peaks at the Idaho/Montana border.

(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. monocephala, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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