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|accepted_name=Ericameria albida
|accepted_authority=(M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Great Basin Naturalist
|place=55: 86. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Whiteflower rabbitbrush
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Bigelowia albida
|authority=M. E. Jones ex A. Gray
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=17: 209. 1881 (as Bigelovia)
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chrysothamnus albidus
|authority=(M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) Greene
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Ericameria;Ericameria albida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ericameria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ericameria albida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 53
|treatment_page=page 54
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>10–150 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending, pale green when young, becoming whitish, fastigiately branched, glabrous, resinous at and distal to nodes. <b>Leaves</b> usually ascending, recurved when older; blades filiform (adaxially sulcate), 15–35 × 0.5–2 mm, midnerves obscure, apices acute, often mucronate, faces glabrous, gland-dotted (in pits and sessile); axillary leaf fascicles often present. <b>Heads</b> in rounded, cymiform arrays (to 5 cm wide). <b>Peduncles</b> usually less than 10 mm (ebracteate). <b>Involucres</b> turbinate, 6–10 × 2–4 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 15–20 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–6 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, inner mostly chartaceous (bodies truncate or tapering gradually or abruptly to bases of herbaceous appendages), midnerves faint (margins membranous, usually ciliate), apices (outer and mid) cuspidate (tips squarrose), abaxial faces glabrous, resinous. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 5–7; corollas 4.7–7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, narrowly turbinate to subcylindric or narrowly ellipsoid, 4–5 mm (5-ribbed), moderately hairy to sericeous, often gland-dotted (glands spheric, glistening) distally; pappi whitish, 4.5–5.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils
|elevation=300–1800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Ericameria albida</i> is common in the Great Basin region.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ericameria albida
|author=
|authority=(M. E. Jones ex A. Gray) L. C. Anderson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chrysothamnus albidus
|basionyms=Bigelowia albida
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry, alkaline plains, sandy or silty soils
|elevation=300–1800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Great Basin Naturalist
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Ericameria
|species=Ericameria albida
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