View source for Chrysothamnus depressus

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Chrysothamnus depressus
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|place=4: 19. 1848
|year=1848
}}
|common_names=Long-flowered rabbitbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Chrysothamnus;Chrysothamnus depressus
|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>[[Chrysothamnus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chrysothamnus depressus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 188
|treatment_page=page 189
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 10–50 cm; woody, highly branched caudices, proximal branches decumbent, bark tan to gray, flaky with age. <b>Stems</b> green, becoming whitish tan, ± ridged from leaf bases, densely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> erect or closely ascending; sessile; blades with evident midnerves, linear to oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 7–30 × 1.5–7 mm, flat to keeled, apices acute (often apiculate), faces glabrous or puberulent, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> in densely cymiform arrays, not overtopped by distal leaves. <b>Involucres</b> obconic, 9–15 × 3–5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 20–25 in 4–6 series, in 5 strong vertical ranks, tan, often with green and/or purplish markings, midnerves evident throughout and ± expanded apically, lanceolate to elliptic, 3–8 × 0.5–1.5 mm, unequal, outer often herbaceous, inner scarious, strongly keeled, apices acute to acuminate, flat, faces puberulent. <b>Disc</b> florets 5–6; corollas 7–11 mm, lobes 1–2.1 mm; style branches 2.4–3.3 mm, appendages 1.5–2 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, subcylindric (tapering proximally), ± flattened, 5–6.5 mm, faces glabrous, sparsely glandular distally; pappi whitish tan, 5.5–7.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry canyons and rocky crevices
|elevation=1000–2700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah.
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|references=
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name=Chrysothamnus depressus
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Dry canyons and rocky crevices
|elevation=1000–2700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication year=1848
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Chrysothamnus
|species=Chrysothamnus depressus
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