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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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low rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched). Plants 10–20 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, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 10–15 × 2–3 mm, faces densely tomentose, eglandular;

distalmost not overtopping arrays.

Involucres

10–11.5 mm.

10–12 mm.

Florets

(4–)5–12;

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

10–18;

corollas 10–12 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely villous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes 1.4–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

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

ca. 16, chartaceous, apices erect (outer sometimes herbaceous, reddish), abruptly acute.

Heads

2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly.

usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. montana

Ericameria parryi var. imula

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Rocky slopes near timberline Dry flats and yellow-pine forests
Elevation ca. 2900 m (ca. 9500 ft) 2000–2200 m (6600–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID; MT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[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 imula is known only from southern San Bernardino County.

(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. howardii, 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 Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. imulus
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) (H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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