Ericameria bloomeri

(Bloomer Goldenbush, Bloomer's Golden-Weed, Bloomer's Goldenbush, Rabbitbush, Rabbitbush Heathgoldenrod)

Taxonomy

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Kingdom: Plantae - Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta - Vascular Plants
  - Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
    - Order: Asterales
      - Family: Noctuoidea
        Subfamily: Ericoideae
        Tribe: Ericeae
        Genus: Ericameria (er-ik-kam-MEER-ee-uh) Nuttall, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 318. 1840. - Goldenbush [Generic name Erica and Greek meros, part or portion, alluding to resemblance of leaves]
        Specific epithet: bloomeri (Gray) J.F. Macbr.
        Botanical name: Ericameria bloomeri (Gray) J.F. Macbr.

Unambiguous Synonyms:

Haplopappus bloomeri Gray
Haplopappus bloomeri var. angustatus Gray
Haplopappus bloomeri var. sonnei (Gray) Greene
Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. sonnei (Gray) Hall

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Physical Description

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Genus Ericameria:

Shrubs (trees in Ericameria parishii var. parishii), 10500 cm. Stems usually erect to ascending, rarely prostrate, fastigiately or intricately branched (bark typically tan to reddish brown, becoming gray, twigs usually green to gray or yellowish), glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy (often tomentose), often gland-dotted, sometimes resinous or stipitate-glandular. Leaves (mostly persistent) cauline (often crowded, axillary leaf fascicles sometimes present) ; petiolate or sessile; blades (green to grayish; midnerves obscure to prominent, sometimes with 2 collateral veins), cuneate, elliptic, filiform, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, obovate, or spatulate (adaxially sulcate, concave, or flat), margins entire (sometimes undulate or crisped; apices acute to rounded or retuse), faces glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy (often tomentose), often stipitate -glandular, sometimes gland-dotted or resinous. Heads radiate or discoid, borne singly or in cymiform or racemiform, sometimes highly branched and paniculiform or thyrsiform, arrays. Involucres campanulate, cylindric, hemispheric, obconic, or turbinate, (419+ ×) 218 mm. Phyllaries 860 in 27 series (often in vertical ranks), 1-nerved (midnerves obscure or evident, sometimes enlarged subapically and glandular) ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, strongly unequal to subequal, outer often herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, otherwise mostly chartaceous, (apices erect, spreading, or reflexed, acute or acuminate to cuspidate or obtuse), faces sometimes stipitate-glandular, often resinous. Receptacles slightly convex, pitted, epaleate. Ray florets 0, or 118, pistillate, fertile; corollas usually yellow (white in E. gilmanii and E. resinosa), (laminae elliptic to oblong, apices shallowly notched or toothed). Disc florets 470, bisexual, fertile; corollas usually yellow (white in E. gilmanii and E. resinosa), tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect to spreading or reflexed, deltate to triangular; style-branch appendages lanceolate to subulate. Cypselae (tan to reddish brown) usually prismatic, sometimes cylindric, ellipsoid, obconic, or turbinate, 512-ribbed, faces glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy, sometimes gland-dotted; pappi persistent or tardily falling, of 2060 whitish or tan to reddish, subequal, fine, barbellate, apically attenuate bristles in 1 series. x = 9.

Species 36: w North America, n Mexico.

Two species, Ericameria juarezensis and E. martirensis, are known only from mountains in northern Baja California, Mexico. The plants inhabit rock outcrops and dry, stony or sandy substrates of western North America. Some taxa are widespread and codominant in scrub communities of that region; others have restricted distributions. Systematic and phylogenetic investigations have resulted in the expansion of Ericameria to include certain taxa previously assigned to Chrysothamnus as well as taxa treated in Haplopappus. Except for E. laricifolia, taxa in Texas previously included in Ericameria are but distantly related and have been excluded from the genus.^[1]

Habit: Shrub

Images:

Ericameria bloomeri Ericameria bloomeri Photographer: Brother Alfred Brousseau Courtesy of St. Mary\'s College of California. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 89610

Ericameria bloomeri Ericameria bloomeri Photographer: Brother Alfred Brousseau Courtesy of St. Mary\'s College of California. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 89609

Ericameria bloomeri Ericameria bloomeri Photographer: Brother Alfred Brousseau Courtesy of St. Mary\'s College of California. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 89611

Distribution

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Range and Population

North America

Reproduction

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Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Ericameria:

Bibliography

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Anderson, L. C. 1995b. The Chrysothamnus-Ericameria connection (Asteraceae). Great Basin Naturalist 55: 84-88.
Hall, H. M and F. E. Clements. 1923. The Phylogenetic method in taxonomy: The North American species of Artemisia, Chrysothamnus, and Atriplex. Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 326.
Nesom , G. L. and G. I. Baird. 1995. Comments on "The Chrysothamnus-Ericameria connection." Phytologia 78: 61-65.
Nesom, G. L. 1990d. Taxonomic summary of Ericameria (Asteraceae: Astereae), with the inclusion of Haplopappus sects. Macronema and Asiris. Phytologia 68: 144-155.
Nesom, G. L. and G. I. Baird. 1993. Completion of Ericameria (Asteraceae: Astereae), diminution of Chrysothamnus. Phytologia 75: 74-93.
Roberts, R. P. 2002. Phylogeny of Ericameria, Chrysothamnus and Related Genera (Asteraceae: Astereae) Based on Nuclear Ribosomal DNA Sequence Data. Ph.D. dissertation. Louisiana State University.
Roberts, R. P. and L. E. Urbatsch. 2003. Molecular phylogeny of Ericameria (Asteraceae, Astereae) based on nuclear ribosomal 3' ETS and ITS sequence data. Taxon 52: 209-228.
Urbatsch, L. E. 1978. The Chihuahuan Desert species of Ericameria (Asteraceae). Sida 7: 298-303.

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Notes

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Contributors:

Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

Berkeley Natural History Museums: University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
Burke Museum: Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium (WTU)
Oregon State University: Vascular Plant Collection
USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database
Utah State University: USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers:

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 502355
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 289678
Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:203436-1
Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST3L0K0
U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERBL2
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 37697

Footnotes:

Lowell E. Urbatsch, Loran C. Anderson, Roland P. Roberts, Kurt M. Neubig "Ericameria". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 5, 6, 50, 51, 68, 72, 85, 188. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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Last Revised: May 11, 2008