Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria discoidea
pine goldenweed, pine-bush
discoid goldenweed, rayless goldenbush, sharp-scale goldenweed, white-stem goldenbush
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.
erect to spreading, abundantly branched, twigs green when young, concealed by whitish, pannose tomentum, sporadically stipitate-glandular.
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.
ascending to spreading;
blades linear or oblong to oblanceolate (flat), 10–35 × 2–7 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins often undulate) apices acute to obtuse, usually apiculate, faces usually stipitate-glandular, resinous;
axillary fascicles absent.
3–30 mm (leafy).
3–15 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike, whitish tomentose and usually stipitate-glandular).
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.
obconic, 9–13 × 6–10 mm.
3–10;
laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.
0.
11–25;
corollas 5–8 mm.
10–26;
corollas 9–11 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.
12–17 in 2–3 series, green to tan, lanceolate to oblong, 6–10 × 1–2 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or distally so, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves evident, (margins of outer often distally stipitate-glandular, of inner narrowly membranous, sometimes minutely ciliolate) apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular.
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).
borne singly or in cymiform to racemiform arrays.
tan to brown, subobovoid, 3.5–5 mm, glabrous or moderately hairy, more densely distally;
pappi off-white to brown, 6–7.5 mm.
brownish, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovoid, 5–6 mm, villous;
pappi tan, 8.5–11 mm.
= 18.
= 18.
Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria discoidea
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.)
Ericameria discoidea is common in the Rocky Mountains.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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