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pine goldenweed, pine-bush

crisped goldenbush

Habit Plants 50–300 cm. Plants 20–40 cm.
Stems

erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.

erect, green when young, much branched, short-stipitate-glandular.

Leaves

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.

erect to ascending;

blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 15–30 × 3–8 mm, midnerves and 2 smaller collateral veins evident, (margins crisped) apices acute, often apiculate, faces short-stipitate-glandular, resinous.

Peduncles

3–30 mm (leafy).

5–40 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike).

Involucres

subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.

campanulate, 12.5–15 × 5–9 mm.

Ray florets

3–10;

laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.

0.

Disc florets

11–25;

corollas 5–8 mm.

14–24;

corollas 9.5–10.8 mm.

Phyllaries

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.

24–35 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 8–12 × 1–2.5 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous to chartaceous, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves slightly raised, evident entire length of bodies, (margins ciliate) apices acute to acuminate or cuspidate (outer), appendages slender (outer), abaxial faces glabrous.

Heads

in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).

usually in loose, paniculiform or congested, cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.

Cypselae

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, elliptic, 6.5–8.5 mm, sparsely, evenly strigose;

pappi usually off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 8–9.5 mm.

2n

= 18.

= 18.

Ericameria pinifolia

Ericameria crispa

Phenology Flowering late summer–fall(–spring). Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat Open, sandy to stony soils in chaparral, oak woodland, or scrub in near coastal communities On open slopes of weathered soils, with manzanita, fir, pine
Elevation 100–1800 m (300–5900 ft) 2400–3100 m (7900–10200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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from FNA
UT
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Discussion

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.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 75. FNA vol. 20, p. 57.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ericameria
Sibling taxa
E. albida, E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, E. compacta, E. cooperi, E. crispa, E. cuneata, E. discoidea, E. ericoides, E. fasciculata, E. gilmanii, E. greenei, E. laricifolia, E. lignumviridis, E. linearifolia, E. linearis, E. nana, E. nauseosa, E. obovata, E. ophitidis, E. palmeri, E. paniculata, E. parishii, E. parryi, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa, E. teretifolia, E. watsonii, E. winwardii, E. zionis
E. albida, E. arborescens, E. arizonica, E. bloomeri, E. brachylepis, E. cervina, E. compacta, E. cooperi, E. cuneata, E. discoidea, E. ericoides, E. fasciculata, E. gilmanii, E. greenei, E. laricifolia, E. lignumviridis, E. linearifolia, E. linearis, E. nana, E. nauseosa, E. obovata, E. ophitidis, E. palmeri, E. paniculata, E. parishii, E. parryi, E. pinifolia, E. resinosa, E. suffruticosa, E. teretifolia, E. watsonii, E. winwardii, E. zionis
Synonyms Haplopappus pinifolius Haplopappus crispus
Name authority (A. Gray) H. M. Hall: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 3: 54. (1907) (L. C. Anderson) G. L. Neson: Phytologia 68: 152. (1990)
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