View source for Chrysothamnus molestus

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Chrysothamnus molestus
|accepted_authority=(S. F. Blake) L. C. Anderson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=17: 222. 1964
|year=1964
}}
|common_names=Arizona rabbitbrush
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. molestus
|authority=S. F. Blake
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Chrysothamnus;Chrysothamnus molestus
|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>[[Chrysothamnus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chrysothamnus molestus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 101, 188
|treatment_page=page 190
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 8–20 cm; with woody, highly branched caudices, bark dark gray, highly fibrous with age. <b>Stems</b> ascending, green, ± puberulent, stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> erect to closely ascending; sessile; blades with ± evident midnerves, linear to narrowly elliptic, 7–20 × 0.7–1.5 mm, sulcate, sometimes apiculate, apices acute, faces moderately puberulent, uniformly stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> in small cymiform to racemiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> subcylindric, 9–11 × 2.5–3.5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> ± 20 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 strong vertical ranks, tan, often with green or dark subapical splotch, midnerves often obscure, linear or lanceolate to elliptic, 2–9 × 0.5–1.3 mm, unequal, outer ± herbaceous, inner chartaceous, strongly keeled, apices acute to rounded, tip cupped, faces of outer glabrous or puberulent. <b>Disc</b> florets 5; corollas 5.5–7.5 mm, lobes 0.9–1.5 mm; style branches 2.7–3.2 mm, appendages 1–1.7 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan, elliptic, 4.2–6 mm, mostly 5-ribbed, faces glabrous, sparsely glandular; pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky soils, mostly on limestone pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1800–2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|discussion=<p>Chrysothamnus molestus is known only from Coconino County. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.</p>
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name=Chrysothamnus molestus
|author=
|authority=(S. F. Blake) L. C. Anderson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. molestus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rocky soils, mostly on limestone pinyon-juniper woodland
|elevation=1800–2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1964
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Chrysothamnus
|species=Chrysothamnus molestus
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