Chrysothamnus greenei Greene

Greene's rabbitbrush (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Chrysothamnus

Characteristics

Shrubs, 10–50 cm; with woody, moderately branched caudices, bark light gray, flaky to fibrous with age. Stems ascending, green becoming tan, glabrous, resinous. Leaves ascending to spreading; sessile; blades with faint midnerves, linear-filiform, 10–40 × 0.5–2 mm, flat or sulcate, sometimes twisted, margins glabrous or hirtellous, apices acute to apiculate, faces glabrous. Heads in densely cymiform arrays (4 cm wide), distal leaves reaching into but not overtopping arrays. Involucres cylindric to turbinate, 5–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm. Phyllaries 15–20 in 3–4 series, often in vertical ranks or spirals, mostly tan, ± greenish apically, midveins rarely visible, ovate or oblong to elliptic, 1.5–5 × 0.8–1.4 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, sometimes ± keeled, apices acuminate to cuspidate (cusp often recurved or falcate), faces glabrous or with a few long, crooked hairs proximally and near margins, resinous. Disc florets 4–5; corollas 3.7–5.5 mm, lobes 0.8–1.5 mm; style branches 2–2.4 mm (exserted beyond spreading corolla lobes), appendages 0.5–0.8 mm (shorter than stigmatic portion). Cypselae reddish brown, turbinate, 3–4 mm, faces densely hairy; pappi tan, 3.7–5 mm. 2n = 18.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
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Soil texture 1-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Dermatological Aid (unspecified), Misc. Disease Remedy (unspecified)
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Images

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Distribution

Chrysothamnus greenei world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:58025-2
WFO ID wfo-0000002602
COL ID V2BG
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Chrysothamnus greenei Chrysothamnus filifolius Ericameria filifolia Bigelowia greenei Chrysothamnus greenei subsp. filifolius Chrysothamnus greenei var. greenei Chrysothamnus greenei subsp. greenei Chrysothamnus greenei var. filifolius