Ericameria pinifolia
pine goldenweed, pine-bush
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.
ascending to spreading;
blades linear to narrowly oblanceolate (terete or adaxially sulcate), 12–35 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous or moderately hairy, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous;
axillary fascicles of 4–10 leaves, shorter than subtending leaves.
3–30 mm (leafy).
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.
3–10;
laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.
11–25;
corollas 5–8 mm.
20–26 in 4–6 series, tan, ovate to lanceolate or oblong, 3–7 × 1–1.8 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, outermost ± herbaceous-appendaged, midnerves thickened, darker resin ducts, slightly expanded apically, (margins membranous, fimbriate, especially distally) apices erect, acuminate to cuspidate, inner and mid acute to acuminate, abaxial faces usually glabrous, resinous.
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).
tan to brown, subobovoid, 3.5–5 mm, glabrous or moderately hairy, more densely distally;
pappi off-white to brown, 6–7.5 mm.
= 18.
Ericameria pinifolia
Of conservation concern.
Ericameria pinifolia ranges from Ventura County to northern Baja California. It blooms primarily in late summer and fall; it sometimes produces scattered, larger flowering heads in spring.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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