Ericameria compacta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Ericameria
- Species
- Ericameria compacta
- Scientific Name
- Ericameria compacta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ericameria compacta
Ericameria compacta, the Charleston Mountain goldenbush, is a rare North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in pine forests in the Spring and Sheep Mountains of Clark County, Nevada. Fewer than 12 populations have been found.
Ericameria compacta is a branching shrub up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. Leaves are oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, up to 4 cm (1.6 inches) long. One plant can form many small, yellow flower heads, each with as many as 16 disc florets but no ray florets.
...Ericameria compacta in languages:
- English
- Spring Mountains Goldenbush
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ericameria albida
- Ericameria arborescens
- Ericameria arizonica
- Ericameria bloomeri
- Ericameria brachylepis
- Ericameria cervina
- Ericameria compacta
- Ericameria cooperi
- Ericameria crispa
- Ericameria cuneata
- Ericameria discoidea
- Ericameria ericoides
- Ericameria fasciculata
- Ericameria gilmanii
- Ericameria greenei
- Ericameria juarezensis
- Ericameria laricifolia
- Ericameria lignumviridis
- Ericameria linearifolia
- Ericameria martirensis
- Ericameria nana
- Ericameria nauseosa
- Ericameria obovata
- Ericameria ophitidis
- Ericameria palmeri
- Ericameria paniculata
- Ericameria parishii
- Ericameria parryi
- Ericameria pinifolia
- Ericameria resinosa
- Ericameria suffruticosa
- Ericameria teretifolia
- Ericameria watsonii
- Ericameria zionis
- Ericameria × bolanderi
- Ericameria × uintahensis
- Ericameria × viscosa























































