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Parry's rabbitbrush, vulcan rabbitbrush

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rough Parry's rabbitbrush, rough rabbitbrush

Habit Plants 10–20 cm (branches slender). Plants 15–70 cm.
Leaves

moderately crowded, green;

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

distalmost about equaling arrays.

moderately crowded, gray-green;

blades 1-nerved, oblanceolate, 15–50 × 1–3 mm, faces abundantly stipitate-glandular;

distalmost ± equaling arrays.

Involucres

12.5–15 mm.

11–15 mm.

Florets

5–7;

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

5–10;

corollas yellow, 8.3–9.5 mm, tubes sparsely hairy, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm.

Phyllaries

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

9–13, whitish, tan, or purplish, apices erect to spreading, acute.

Heads

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

4–10+ in (sometimes branched) racemiform arrays.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica

Ericameria parryi var. aspera

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall. Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Sandy soils, rocky slopes and sagebrush flats Dry forests to alpine barrens in pumice or gravel
Elevation 1400–3200 m (4600–10500 ft) 1900–3300 m (6200–10800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA; NV
[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. 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. parryi, E. parryi var. salmonensis
E. parryi var. affinis, 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, E. parryi var. vulcanica
Synonyms Chrysothamnus vulcanicus, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. vulcanicus Chrysothamnus asper, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. asper
Name authority (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 88. (1993)
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