Ericameria parryi var. aspera

Rough rabbitbrush, Rough Rabbitbrush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Rough rabbitbrush is a California native shrub found in central Sierra Nevada Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, eastern Sierra Nevada, and desert mountains in dry forest to alpine barrens at elevations of 1,900 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces yellow flowers in dense heads 4 to 10 millimeters long with phyllaries that range from white to straw-colored or purplish. Growing with erect to spreading stems 15 to 70 centimeters tall, the plant has white to greenish branches. Its leaves are 15 to 50 millimeters long, straight or curved, ranging from gray to green, with the uppermost leaves often extending beyond the flower heads. The shrub typically grows in gravelly or pumice-rich terrain, with short-stalked glands on its foliage.

Habitat: dry forest to alpine barrens, often in pumice or gravel

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1900-3300 m

Bioregions: c&amps SNH, SnBr, SNE, DMtns

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