Ericameria parryi var. parryi |
Ericameria parryi var. aspera |
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Parry's rabbitbrush |
rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush |
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Habit | Plants 30–100 cm. | Plants 15–70 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. |
moderately crowded, gray-green; blades 1-nerved, oblanceolate, 15–50 × 1–3 mm, faces abundantly stipitate-glandular; distalmost ± equaling arrays. |
Involucres | 9–12 mm. |
11–15 mm. |
Florets | 8–20; corollas yellow, 7.9–10 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–2.1 mm. |
5–10; corollas yellow, 8.3–9.5 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm. |
Phyllaries | 10–15, mostly chartaceous, outermost sometimes herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, attenuate. |
9–13, whitish, tan, or purplish, apices erect to spreading, acute. |
Heads | usually 5–12+ in racemiform arrays. |
4–10+ in (sometimes branched) racemiform arrays. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria parryi var. parryi |
Ericameria parryi var. aspera |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Open, dry hillsides and plains | Dry forests to alpine barrens in pumice or gravel |
Elevation | 2000–2900 m (6600–9500 ft) | 1900–3300 m (6200–10800 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY |
CA; NV |
Discussion | Variety parryi is widespread in the Rocky Mountain region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 75. | FNA vol. 20, p. 73. |
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Synonyms | Chrysothamnus asper, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. asper | |
Name authority | unknown | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993) |
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