Ericameria nauseosa

Rubber rabbitbrush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Rubber rabbitbrush is a native shrub found in western North American desert, mountain, and interior valley regions in open, dry habitats at elevations from 100 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from August to October, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in dense, flat-topped clusters with disc-like flower heads. Growing 2 to 8 feet tall with spreading or erect stems that are strongly aromatic and covered in white to grayish woolly hair, it forms a dense, multi-branched structure. Its leaves are narrow and thread-like, 0.4 to 2.8 inches long, ranging from glabrous to densely hairy and often gland-dotted. The plant produces fruits 3 to 10 millimeters long, typically covered in soft hairs that give the shrub a silvery-gray appearance.

California counties: Alpine, Los Angeles, Inyo, Kern, Mono, Riverside, San Bernardino, Tulare, Amador, Ventura, Sierra, El Dorado, Plumas, Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Lassen, Modoc, Santa Barbara, Alameda, Placer, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Nevada

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