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Parry's rabbitbrush

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low rabbitbrush, Parry's rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–100 cm. Plants 10–20 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, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 10–15 × 2–3 mm, faces densely tomentose, eglandular;

distalmost not overtopping arrays.

Involucres

9–12 mm.

10–12 mm.

Florets

8–20;

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

10–18;

corollas 10–12 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely villous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes 1.4–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

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

ca. 16, chartaceous, apices erect (outer sometimes herbaceous, reddish), abruptly acute.

Heads

usually 5–12+ in racemiform arrays.

usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. parryi

Ericameria parryi var. imula

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open, dry hillsides and plains Dry flats and yellow-pine forests
Elevation 2000–2900 m (6600–9500 ft) 2000–2200 m (6600–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; NM; NV; UT; WY
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety parryi is widespread in the Rocky Mountain region.

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

Variety imula is known only from southern San Bernardino County.

(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. howardii, 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 parryi subsp. imulus
Name authority unknown (H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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