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|accepted_name=Ericameria watsonii
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=68: 152. 1990
|year=1990
}}
|common_names=Watson’s goldenbush
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Haplopappus watsonii
|authority=A. Gray
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=16: 79. 1881 (as Aplopappus watsoni)
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Ericameria;Ericameria watsonii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ericameria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ericameria watsonii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 52
|treatment_page=page 77
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>5–40 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect to spreading (close to the ground), green when young, becoming pale reddish brown, highly branched, coarsely long-stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> (crowded) ascending; blades elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 3–8 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins undulate) apices acute, apiculate, faces long-stipitate-glandular; fascicles usually absent, (sometimes of 1–3 reduced leaves). <b>Heads</b> usually in cymiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> 1–12 mm (bracts 3–20, crowded, leafy, grading into phyllaries). <b>Involucres</b> broadly obconic, 6–8 × 4–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 25–30 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate to oblong, 4–8 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, outer herbaceous or with herbaceous appendages, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves usually evident, (margins entire, outer often herbaceous, inner scarious) apices acute to acuminate or attenuate, abaxial faces mostly stipitate-glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 4–8; laminae elliptic, 6–9 × 1–2 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 12–22; corollas 5.5–6.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to brown, narrowly turbinate, 3–4.5 mm (usually 5-ribbed), moderately sericeous; pappi tan, 4–5.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rock outcrops, desert scrub, pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine communities
|elevation=1300–3400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Nev.;Utah.
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|references=
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name=Ericameria watsonii
|author=
|authority=(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Haplopappus watsonii
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rock outcrops, desert scrub, pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine communities
|elevation=1300–3400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1990
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Ericameria
|species=Ericameria watsonii
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