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Nevada rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 20–60 cm.
Leaves

moderately crowded, green to gray;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 15–40 × 0.5–3 mm, faces densely tomentulose, gland-dotted, resinous;

distalmost seldom overtopping arrays.

Involucres

11–15 mm.

Florets

4–6;

corollas clear yellow, 9–10.5 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

24–28, chartaceous, apices ± recurved (tan or greenish), attenuate.

Heads

5–10+ in racemiform to narrowly paniculiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. nevadensis

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Scrub, open yellow-pine forests, rarely on serpentine
Elevation 1100–3300 m (3600–10800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; OR; UT
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Discussion

In California, var. nevadensis is found in the central and northern Sierra Nevada and in the Great Basin.

(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. montana, E. parryi var. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Linosyris howardii var. nevadensis, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. nevadensis
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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