Ericameria parryi var. imula

(H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird

Phytologia 75: 89. 1993.

Common names: Low rabbitbrush
Endemic
Basionym: Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. imulus H. M. Hall & Clements Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 326: 200. 1923
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 73. Mentioned on page 72.

Plants 10–20 cm. Leaves crowded, gray; blades 1-nerved, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 10–15 × 2–3 mm, faces densely tomentose, eglandular; distalmost not overtopping arrays. Heads usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays. Involucres 10–12 mm. Phyllaries ca. 16, chartaceous, apices erect (outer sometimes herbaceous, reddish), abruptly acute. Florets 10–18; corollas 10–12 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely villous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes 1.4–1.5 mm. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Dry flats and yellow-pine forests
Elevation: 2000–2200 m

Discussion

Variety imula is known only from southern San Bernardino County.

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 +
Lowell E. Urbatsch +, Loran C. Anderson +, Roland P. Roberts +  and Kurt M. Neubig +
(H. M. Hall & Clements) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird +
decurrent +
Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. imulus +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
spatulate;linear-spatulate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
tan +  and reddish +
subequal +
Low rabbitbrush +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
narrowly ellipsoid +  and subturbinate +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
2000–2200 m +
gland-dotted;yellowish;greenish;yellowish;greenish;gray +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry flats and yellow-pine forests +
cymiform +  and racemiform +
singly +, grouped +  and cluster +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
subcylindric +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
erect +  and ascending or spreading +
erect;spreading or reflexed +
deltate +  and triangular +
2-carpellate +
off-white +  and brown +
persistent +
0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering late summer–fall. +
herbaceous-tipped +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
ovate +  and lanceolate or elliptic +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
eglandular +  and branched +
resinous +
densely white +  and grayish +
ascending +  and erect +
lanceolate +  and subulate +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Haplopappus sect. Asiris +, Haplopappus sect. Ericameria +, Haplopappus sect. Macronema +  and Haplopappus sect. Stenotopsis +
Ericameria parryi var. imula +
Ericameria parryi +
variety +
villous +  and glabrous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +