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Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica
Photo is of parent taxon

Parry's rabbitbrush, vulcan rabbitbrush
Habit Plants 10–20 cm (branches slender).
Leaves

moderately crowded, green;

blades 1(–3)-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 0.5–2 mm, faces glabrous, minutely gland-dotted;

distalmost about equaling arrays.
Involucres

12.5–15 mm.
Florets

5–7;

corollas yellow, 9–11 mm, tubes glabrous or proximally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.5–1.9 mm.
Phyllaries

9–13, chartaceous, apices erect (tan or greenish), attenuate.
Heads

6–20+ in lax (much-branched), racemiform to thyrsiform arrays.
2n

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica
Phenology Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Sandy soils, rocky slopes and sagebrush flats
Elevation 1400–3200 m (4600–10500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety vulcanica grows in the southern Sierra Nevada.

(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. salmonensis
Synonyms Chrysothamnus vulcanicus, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. vulcanicus
Name authority (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993)
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