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Parry's rabbitbrush

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rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush

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

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
from FNA
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA; NV
[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. 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. montana, E. parryi var. nevadensis, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
E. parryi var. affinis, 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. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis, E. parryi var. vulcanica
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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