Ericameria parryi var. montana

(L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird

Phytologia 75: 89. 1993.

Common names: Mountain rabbitbrush
EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus L. C. Anderson Phytologia 38: 319, fig. 5. 1978
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 74. Mentioned on page 72.

Plants 10–20 cm (intricately branched). Leaves moderately crowded, green; blades 1-nerved, linear, 20–35 × 1–2 mm, faces glabrous, viscidulous; distal overtopping arrays. Heads 2–5 in ± cymiform arrays or borne singly. Involucres 10–11.5 mm. Phyllaries (11–)13–18, ± chartaceous, outer apices long-acuminate, herbaceous, inner acuminate (viscidulous). Florets (4–)5–12; corollas yellow, 9–10 mm, tubes finely glandular-puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Rocky slopes near timberline
Elevation: ca. 2900 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety montana is known only from Red Conglomerate Peaks at the Idaho/Montana border.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
Lowell E. Urbatsch +, Loran C. Anderson +, Roland P. Roberts +  and Kurt M. Neubig +
(L. C. Anderson) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird +
Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. montanus +
Mountain rabbitbrush +
Idaho +  and Mont. +
ca. 2900 m +
Rocky slopes near timberline +
Flowering late summer–fall. +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
Haplopappus sect. Asiris +, Haplopappus sect. Ericameria +, Haplopappus sect. Macronema +  and Haplopappus sect. Stenotopsis +
Ericameria parryi var. montana +
Ericameria parryi +
variety +