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Parry's goldenrod, Parry's goldenweed

Stems

often purple proximally.

Leaves

(3–)6–15 cm, sometimes slightly succulent, clasping or subclasping, less commonly non-clasping, relatively unreduced to arrays, distal sometimes grading into phyllaries.

Ray corollas

6–10 mm.

Disc corollas

7–9 mm, lobes spreading.

2n

= 18.

Oreochrysum parryi

Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Moist to dry meadows and roadsides, wooded slopes, often in partially shaded understory
Elevation 2400–3800 m (7900–12500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; NV; UT; WY; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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Discussion

Oreochrysum parryi was noted by A. Cronquist (1994, p. 244) to occur in “the Ruby Mts. of Elko Co., Nevada, in a glandular-puberulent, perhaps varietally separable phase.” (Chihuahua—collected by C. G. Pringle from a single locality; it has never been recollected.)

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 167.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Oreochrysum
Synonyms Haplopappus parryi, Solidago parryi
Name authority (A. Gray) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 152. (1906)
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