Ericameria nauseosa var. mohavensis

Mojave rabbitbrush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Mojave rabbitbrush is a California native shrub found in the Mount Hamilton Range, southern Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, eastern Sierra Nevada, and Mojave Desert in dry scrub habitats at elevations of 400 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from August to October, this plant produces yellow flowers in compact heads with straw-colored involucres around 8.5 to 12 millimeters long. Growing 50 to 280 centimeters tall with nearly leafless stems that are densely white-tomentose and yellowish-green, it develops a distinctive woolly appearance. Its leaves are slender and thread-like, measuring 15 to 30 millimeters in length with a sparse, narrow profile. The plant's flower corollas range from 7 to 10.5 millimeters long, with small spreading lobes less than 2 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Common. Dry scrub

Bloom period: Aug-Oct

Elevation: 400-2400 m

Bioregions: SnFrB (Mount Hamilton Range), SCoRO, s SCoRI, TR, SNE, DMoj

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Monterey, Riverside, Inyo, San Benito, Santa Clara, Tulare, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Alameda, Mono

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