Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica |
Ericameria parryi var. salmonensis |
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Parry's rabbitbrush, vulcan rabbitbrush |
Parry's rabbitbrush, Salmon River rabbitbrush |
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Habit | Plants 10–20 cm (branches slender). | Plants 30–60 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. |
widely spaced, green; blades 1-nerved, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–50(–80) × 1–2(–3) mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous; distalmost overtopping arrays. |
Involucres | 12.5–15 mm. |
10–12 mm. |
Florets | 5–7; corollas yellow, 9–11 mm, tubes glabrous or proximally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.5–1.9 mm. |
(4–)5–6; corollas pale yellow, 7.5–10 mm, tubes distally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1–1.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | 9–13, chartaceous, apices erect (tan or greenish), attenuate. |
(11–)13–17(–19), chartaceous, outer herbaceous-tipped, apices erect, acuminate (glabrous, viscidulous). |
Heads | 6–20+ in lax (much-branched), racemiform to thyrsiform arrays. |
usually 4–8 in lax (much branched), racemiform to cymiform-paniculiform arrays. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica |
Ericameria parryi var. salmonensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, rocky slopes and sagebrush flats | Barren, rocky soils |
Elevation | 1400–3200 m (4600–10500 ft) | 1400–1800 m (4600–5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
ID |
Discussion | Variety vulcanica grows in the southern Sierra Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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. | FNA vol. 20, p. 75. |
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Synonyms | Chrysothamnus vulcanicus, Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. vulcanicus | Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. salmonensis |
Name authority | (Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) | (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird: Phytologia 75: 89. (1993) |
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