Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria watsonii
pine goldenweed, pine-bush
Watson's goldenbush
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.
erect to spreading (close to the ground), green when young, becoming pale reddish brown, highly branched, coarsely long-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.
(crowded) ascending;
blades elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 3–8 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins undulate) apices acute, apiculate, faces long-stipitate-glandular;
fascicles usually absent, (sometimes of 1–3 reduced leaves).
3–30 mm (leafy).
1–12 mm (bracts 3–20, crowded, leafy, grading into phyllaries).
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.
broadly obconic, 6–8 × 4–7 mm.
3–10;
laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.
4–8;
laminae elliptic, 6–9 × 1–2 mm.
11–25;
corollas 5–8 mm.
12–22;
corollas 5.5–6.5 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.
25–30 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate to oblong, 4–8 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, outer herbaceous or with herbaceous appendages, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves usually evident, (margins entire, outer often herbaceous, inner scarious) apices acute to acuminate or attenuate, abaxial faces mostly stipitate-glandular.
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).
usually in cymiform 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.
tan to brown, narrowly turbinate, 3–4.5 mm (usually 5-ribbed), moderately sericeous;
pappi tan, 4–5.5 mm.
= 18.
= 18.
Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria watsonii
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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