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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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narrow-bract rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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

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
from FNA
ID; MT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CO; NM; UT
[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.)

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.
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. latior, E. parryi var. monocephala, 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. howardii, E. parryi var. imula, E. parryi var. latior, E. parryi var. monocephala, E. parryi var. montana, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
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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