Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria paniculata
pine goldenweed, pine-bush
black-banded rabbitbrush, Mojave rabbitbrush, punctate rabbitbrush
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.
erect to spreading, green when young, often black-banded or splotched (from fungal infections), fastigiately branched, glabrous, gland-dotted, 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.
mostly ascending;
blades filiform (adaxially sulcate), 10–35 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves obscure, apices apiculate, faces glabrous, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous;
axillary fascicles usually absent.
3–30 mm (leafy).
2–12 mm (bracts 0–10, leaflike).
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.
subcylindric, 5.5–9 × 3.5–7 mm.
3–10;
laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.
0.
11–25;
corollas 5–8 mm.
5–8;
corollas 5–7 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.
13–20 in 3–5 series, tan, lanceolate to elliptic, 1–5 × 0.5–1.7 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, membranous, midnerves not or slightly raised, faint on distal 1/2, (margins entire, sometimes ciliate distally) apices erect, acute to rounded, apiculate, abaxial faces glabrous, ± resinous.
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).
in paniculiform arrays (5–50 mm wide).
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 brown, narrowly elliptic to oblanceoloid, 3.5–4.5 mm (ribs ca. 5), sericeous;
pappi off-white to brown, 5.5–6.5 mm.
= 18.
= 18.
Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria paniculata
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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