Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. viscidiflorus

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Sticky rabbitbrush is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, northern Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, Great Basin, and southern Desert Mountains in sagebrush, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and alpine talus at elevations of 900 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces yellow flowers in narrow cylindric heads with 4 to 14 individual flowers, each 4 to 7.5 millimeters long. Growing with upright branches 30 to 100 centimeters tall, it forms an open, somewhat twisted shrub with smooth, glabrous stems. Its leaves are linear to lance-shaped, 0.5 to 7.5 centimeters long and 1 to 10 millimeters wide, generally twisted and with slightly fringed margins. The plant is notably adaptable, occurring across a wide range of high-elevation habitats from sagebrush scrublands to alpine environments.

Habitat: Common. Sagebrush, pinyon/juniper, alpine talus

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 900-4000 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SN, n WTR, SnBr, GB, s DMtns

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.