Common names: Rubber rabbitbrush
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 67. Mentioned on page 62, 64.

Plants mostly 20–60 cm. Stems grayish to white, leafy, loosely tomentose. Leaves grayish green to white; blades 1-nerved, narrowly linear, 10–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces loosely tomentose. Involucres 7–10.5 mm. Phyllaries 10–18, apices erect, mostly obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, sometimes sparingly. Corollas 6.5–9 mm, tubes usually puberulent, rarely arachnose, lobes 1–2 mm, glabrous; style appendages longer than stigmatic portions. Cypselae densely hairy; pappi 5.2–7.2 mm. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Plains and hills, often in barren alkaline soils
Elevation: 300–2000 m

Distribution

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Alta., Sask., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nebr., N.Dak., S.Dak., Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"fine" is not a number.

not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
rounded +  and flat-topped +
Lowell E. Urbatsch +, Loran C. Anderson +, Roland P. Roberts +  and Kurt M. Neubig +
(Pallas ex Pursh) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird +
decurrent +
Chrysocoma nauseosa +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
filiform;narrowly oblanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
tan +  and reddish +
subequal +
Rubber rabbitbrush +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
turbinate +  and cylindric or oblanceoloid +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Alta. +, Sask. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Nebr. +, N.Dak. +, S.Dak. +  and Wyo. +
300–2000 m +
resinous +
gland-dotted +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Plains and hills, often in barren alkaline soils +
thyrsiform +, paniculiform +, branched +, racemiform +, cymiform +, discoid +  and radiate +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
obconic;subcylindric +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1.05 cm10.5 mm <br />0.0105 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
grayish green +  and white +
usually ascending +  and spreading +
erect;spreading or reflexed +
deltate +  and triangular +
raised +  and evident +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
0.52 cm5.2 mm <br />0.0052 m <br /> (0.72 cm7.2 mm <br />0.0072 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Flowering late summer–fall. +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
ovate +  and lanceolate +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
resinous +
grayish +  and white +
ascending +  and spreading +
lanceolate +  and subulate +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Chrysothamnus nauseosus +
Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa +
Ericameria nauseosa +
variety +
campanulate +
arachnose +  and puberulent +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +