Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria zionis
pine goldenweed, pine-bush
subalpine goldenbush, subalpine or Cedar Breaks goldenbush
erect to ascending, green when young, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous.
decumbent to ascending, green when young, often reddish tinged, soon reddish brown to brown, branched, twigs long-stipitate-glandular (sometimes with crinkly hairs interspersed).
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 spatulate (flat), 25–40 × 2.5–7 mm, midnerves (plus 2 smaller, collateral nerves) evident, apices acuminate, faces long-stipitate-glandular;
fascicles absent.
3–30 mm (leafy).
3–15 mm (long-stipitate-glandular, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).
subcampanulate, 5–8 × 3.5–5.5 mm.
turbinate to narrowly campanulate, 14–22 × 6–8 mm.
3–10;
laminae 5.5–7 × 1.5–2 mm.
0.
11–25;
corollas 5–8 mm.
10–21;
corollas 9.5–12 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.
17–23 in 2–4 series, tan to green, lanceolate to elliptic, 10–14 × 1.6–2.7 mm, subequal (outer often slightly longer than inner), outer herbaceous or with herbaceous cusps, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves (often plus 2 collateral nerves) evident, (margins villous distally) apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular, inner sometimes glabrous.
in racemiform to thyrsiform-paniculiform arrays (to 30 × 3–12 cm).
in (leafy) congested, paniculiform to cymiform arrays (1–4 cm 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 reddish, ellipsoid, 7–8 mm, glabrous or apically hairy;
pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 9–9.5 mm.
= 18.
= 18 [as Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. compactus].
Ericameria pinifolia
Ericameria zionis
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.
Ericameria zionis is known from southern Utah.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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