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Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–100 cm.
Leaves

usually crowded, green;

blades 3-nerved (only midnerves prominent), linear, 30–80 × 2–3 mm, faces glabrous or puberulent, often minutely stipitate-glandular, ± resinous;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

9–12 mm.

Florets

8–20;

corollas yellow, 7.9–10 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–2.1 mm.

Phyllaries

10–15, mostly chartaceous, outermost sometimes herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, attenuate.

Heads

usually 5–12+ in racemiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. parryi

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open, dry hillsides and plains
Elevation 2000–2900 m (6600–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety parryi is widespread in the Rocky Mountain region.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 75.
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. nevadensis, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
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