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Parry's rabbitbrush, Salmon River rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 30–60 cm.
Leaves

widely spaced, green;

blades 1-nerved, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–50(–80) × 1–2(–3) mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous;

distalmost overtopping arrays.

Involucres

10–12 mm.

Florets

(4–)5–6;

corollas pale yellow, 7.5–10 mm, tubes distally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1–1.5 mm.

Phyllaries

(11–)13–17(–19), chartaceous, outer herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, acuminate (glabrous, viscidulous).

Heads

usually 4–8 in lax (much branched), racemiform to cymiform-paniculiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. salmonensis

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Barren, rocky soils
Elevation 1400–1800 m (4600–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
ID
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety salmonensis grows along the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and its tributaries.

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

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 75.
Parent taxa 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. parryi, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. salmonensis
Name authority (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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