Ericameria parryi var. montana |
Ericameria parryi var. attenuata |
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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush |
narrow-bract rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush |
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Habit | Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched). | Plants 20–60 cm. |
Leaves | moderately crowded, green; blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–35 × 1–2 mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous; distal overtopping arrays. |
moderately crowded, green; blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–40 × ca. 1 mm, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy, eglandular, somewhat viscid; distalmost shorter than arrays. |
Involucres | 10–11.5 mm. |
11–12.5 mm. |
Florets | (4–)5–12; corollas yellow, 9–10 mm, tubes finely glandular-puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm. |
5–7; corollas clear yellow, 10–11 mm, tubes glabrous, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.5–2 mm. |
Phyllaries | (11–)13–18, ± chartaceous, outer apices long-acuminate, herbaceous, inner acuminate (viscidulous). |
13–22, apices erect, attenuate. |
Heads | 2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly. |
5–10 in compact, racemiform arrays. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria parryi var. montana |
Ericameria parryi var. attenuata |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Rocky slopes near timberline | Mountain slopes, dry, stony soils, sagebrush, pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine, and aspen communities |
Elevation | ca. 2900 m (ca. 9500 ft) | 1700–3000 m (5600–9800 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MT |
CO; NM; UT |
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.) |
S. L. Welsh et al. (1987) noted that characteristics used to distinguish var. howardii from var. attenuata (distalmost leaves overtopping arrays and pale-colored florets) fail as diagnostic features for plants from Utah. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 74. | FNA vol. 20, p. 73. |
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Synonyms | Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus | Bigelowia howardii var. attenuata, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. attenuatus |
Name authority | (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) | (M. E. Jones) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993) |
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