Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Ericameria bloomeri (A.Gray) J.F.Macbr. trib. Astereae |
Bibliography | Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 36 (1918) |
Native Range | British Columbia to w. USA |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | dry, rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1000-4000m |
Description | branchlets fragile, leaves glandular-viscid, numerous, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 2-6cm long, capitula crowded at apex of branchlets, ligules 1-5 or absent |
Size | 20-90cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Aster bloomeri (A.Gray) Kuntze Chrysothamnus bloomeri (A.Gray) Greene Chrysothamnus bloomeri var. angustatus (A.Gray) Greene Chrysothamnus bloomeri var. pubescens L.F.Hend. Ericameria erecta Klatt Haplopappus bloomeri A.Gray Haplopappus bloomeri var. angustatus A.Gray Haplopappus bloomeri ssp. angustatus (A.Gray) H.M.Hall Haplopappus bloomeri var. sonnei Greene Haplopappus bloomeri ssp. sonnei (Greene) H.M.Hall Haplopappus bloomeri ssp. typicus H.M.Hall |
Territory | 7 Northern America 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (IDA Idaho, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (CAL California, NEV Nevada) |