Ericameria nauseosa var. bernardina (H.M.Hall) G.L.Nesom & G.I.Baird

Plants 50–150 cm. Stems yellowish green, becoming whitish, leafy, compactly tomentose. Leaves mostly greenish yellow; blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–2 mm, faces ± tomentose. Involucres 10–14 mm. Phyllaries 13–20 (in vertical ranks), apices erect, acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or tomentose. Corollas 10–12 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.7–2.3 mm, glabrous; style appendages longer than stigmatic portions. Cypselae densely sericeous; pappi 7–8 mm.