Ericameria parryi var. parryi |
Ericameria parryi var. howardii |
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Parry's rabbitbrush |
Howard's rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush |
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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 |
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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 |
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY |
AZ; CO; NE; NM; UT; WY |
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. |
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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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