Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria compacta
pine goldenweed, pine-bush
Charleston Mountain goldenbush
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.
erect to spreading, green when young, becoming tan, branched proximally, often with scattered, crinkled hairs and short- stipitate-glandular hairs.
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.
mostly erect or ascending;
blades oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 20–40 × 2–3(–5) mm, midnerves evident, apices acute to acuminate, faces short-stipitate-glandular, sometimes gland-dotted (sessile), resinous;
axillary fascicles of 1–7 reduced leaves often proximally present, distally absent.
3–30 mm (leafy).
1–15 mm (bracts 0–3, usually resembling phyllaries).
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.
narrowly campanulate, 12–15 × 4.5–5.5 mm.
3–10;
laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.
0.
11–25;
corollas 5–8 mm.
10–16;
corollas 9.1–11.5 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.
18–24 in (3–)4 series, tan, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 4–11 × 0.6–1.2 mm, subequal, mostly chartaceous, midnerves raised, evident, apices acute to cuspidate, herbaceous-tipped, abaxial faces resinous.
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).
usually in paniculiform or cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
tan to brown, subobovoid, 3.5–5 mm, glabrous or moderately hairy, more densely distally;
pappi off-white to brown, 6–7.5 mm.
tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 6–10 mm, glabrate or apically sparsely hairy;
pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 7–9 mm.
= 18.
= 18.
Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria compacta
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.)
Of conservation concern.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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