Ericameria discoidea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Ericameria
- Species
- Ericameria discoidea
- Scientific Name
- Ericameria discoidea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ericameria discoidea
Ericameria discoidea, commonly known as whitestem goldenbush or sharp-scale goldenweed is a species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. This plant is native to the western United States from California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Montana.
Ericameria discoidea grows in clumpy thickets on rocky slopes. It is a small shrub reaching a maximum height of 40 centimeters (16 inches). It has many erect branches covered in a foliage of oval-shaped leaves coated in dense white woolly fibers and tiny stalked resin glands. Atop each short branch is an inflorescence of many flower heads, each packed with sometimes as many as 70 disc florets that bloom in golden yellow and wilt to a rusty orange. There are no ray florets.
...Ericameria discoidea in languages:
- English
- whitestem 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































































































































































