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Nevada rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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mountain rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

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

moderately crowded, green;

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

distal overtopping arrays.

Involucres

11–15 mm.

10–11.5 mm.

Florets

4–6;

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

(4–)5–12;

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

Phyllaries

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

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

Heads

5–10+ in racemiform to narrowly paniculiform arrays.

2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. nevadensis

Ericameria parryi var. montana

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Scrub, open yellow-pine forests, rarely on serpentine Rocky slopes near timberline
Elevation 1100–3300 m (3600–10800 ft) ca. 2900 m (ca. 9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; OR; UT
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from FNA
ID; MT
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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.)

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.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 74. FNA vol. 20, p. 74.
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. montana, 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. 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
Synonyms Linosyris howardii var. nevadensis, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. nevadensis Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus
Name authority (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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