Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Ericameria nauseosa [Chrysothamnus nauseosus]
- Family
- Asteraceae
- CommonName
- rubber rabbitbrush
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1896
- LatestDate
- 2023
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- La Veta
- WildlifePreserves
- Alamosa, Baca, Brown Lakes, Great Sand Dunes, La Jara
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), La Botica, Del Norte
- Comments
- In the Watershed rubber rabbitbrush is a staple component of scrubland and foothill ecosystems on both sides of the Valley. Ericameria nauseosa is a very complex species, with many named varieties. Four have been reported from the Watershed, from most common to least: var. oreophila, var. graveolens, var. nauseosa, and var. ammophila. E. nauseosa var. graveolens (distinguished by its broader leaves and longer style appendage in relation to its stigma branches) and E. nauseosa var. oreophila (distinguished by its narrower leaves and shorter style appendage in relation to its stigma branches) hybridize where the two varieties are sympatric, a condition that seems to apply to the foothills all around the Watershed. In the USA, Ericameria nauseosa is found in nearly every county west of the Great Plains, and follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico into far west Texas.
- Annotation