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|accepted_name=Ericameria discoidea
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=68: 153. 1990
|year=1990
}}
|common_names=Whitestem goldenbush;sharp-scale goldenweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Macronema discoidea
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication_place=7: 322. 1840
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Haplopappus macronema
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Ericameria;Ericameria discoidea
|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 discoidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 52, 59, 62, 68
|treatment_page=page 58
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>10–40 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect to spreading, abundantly branched, twigs green when young, concealed by whitish, pannose tomentum, sporadically stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> ascending to spreading; blades linear or oblong to oblanceolate (flat), 10–35 × 2–7 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins often undulate) apices acute to obtuse, usually apiculate, faces usually stipitate-glandular, resinous; axillary fascicles absent. <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in cymiform to racemiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> 3–15 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike, whitish tomentose and usually stipitate-glandular). <b>Involucres</b> obconic, 9–13 × 6–10 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 12–17 in 2–3 series, green to tan, lanceolate to oblong, 6–10 × 1–2 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or distally so, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves evident, (margins of outer often distally stipitate-glandular, of inner narrowly membranous, sometimes minutely ciliolate) apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 10–26; corollas 9–11 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> brownish, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovoid, 5–6 mm, villous; pappi tan, 8.5–11 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky, open or sparsely wooded slopes, often in coarse talus
|elevation=2500–3800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Ericameria discoidea</i> is common in the Rocky Mountains.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ericameria discoidea
|authority=(Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Haplopappus macronema
|basionyms=Macronema discoidea
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky, open or sparsely wooded slopes, often in coarse talus
|elevation=2500–3800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1990
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Ericameria
|species=Ericameria discoidea
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