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Parry's rabbitbrush

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Howard's rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–100 cm. Plants 30–60 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.

crowded, gray;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–40 × ca. 1 mm, faces tomentose, eglandular;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

9–12 mm.

9.5–12 mm.

Florets

8–20;

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

5–7;

corollas pale yellow, 8–10.7 mm, tubes hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.2–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

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

12–20, mostly chartaceous, apices spreading, acuminate.

Heads

usually 5–12+ in racemiform arrays.

5–10+ in compact, racemiform arrays, or terminal glomerules.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. parryi

Ericameria parryi var. howardii

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open, dry hillsides and plains Upland slopes, tablelands
Elevation 2000–2900 m (6600–9500 ft) 200–2900 m (700–9500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; CO; NE; NM; 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.)

Variety howardii grows within and east of the Rocky Mountains.

(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. aspera, E. parryi var. attenuata, 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 Linosyris howardii, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. howardii
Name authority unknown (Parry ex A. Gray) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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