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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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Howard's rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched). Plants 30–60 cm.
Leaves

moderately crowded, green;

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

distal overtopping arrays.

crowded, gray;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–40 × ca. 1 mm, faces tomentose, eglandular;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

10–11.5 mm.

9.5–12 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 pale yellow, 8–10.7 mm, tubes hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.2–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

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

12–20, mostly chartaceous, apices spreading, acuminate.

Heads

2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly.

5–10+ in compact, racemiform arrays, or terminal glomerules.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. montana

Ericameria parryi var. howardii

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Rocky slopes near timberline Upland slopes, tablelands
Elevation ca. 2900 m (ca. 9500 ft) 200–2900 m (700–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; MT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; CO; NE; NM; UT; WY
[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.)

Variety howardii grows within and east of the Rocky Mountains.

(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. attenuata, 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 Linosyris howardii, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. howardii
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) (Parry ex A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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