Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Chrysothamnus
Species: C. viscidiflorus
Binomial name
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
(Hook.) Nutt.
Synonyms[1]

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus is a North American species of shrub in the daisy family known by the common names yellow rabbitbrush and green rabbitbrush.

Distribution

The plant is widespread across much of the western United States and western Canada, from British Columbia and Montana south to California and New Mexico, with a few populations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in western Nebraska.[2]

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus grows easily in alkaline and saline soils, and thrives on soils that are rich in calcium.[3] It rapidly establishes in disturbed habitat, including burns, flooded washes, and rockslides, so it is a valuable shrub for revegetating damaged land such as overgrazed rangeland and abandoned mining areas.[3]

Description

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus grows up to about 150 cm (59 in; 5 ft) in height with spreading brittle pale-colored stem branches. The leaves are up to a few centimeters long and may be thin and thread-like or up to a centimeter wide and oblong. They are glandular, resinous, and sticky.

The inflorescence is a bushy cluster of flower heads, each head one half to one centimeter long. The flower head is lined with sticky yellow-green phyllaries and contains several yellowish protruding flowers.

The fruit is a hairy achene a few millimeters long with a wispy pappus at the tip. The species grows in sagebrush and woodland habitat[4]

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus contains an unusual m-hydroxyacetophenone derivative, named viscidone, and chromanone derivatives.[5]

Subspecies and varieties

Subspecies and varieties include: [6] [7] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus information from NPGS/GRIN
  2. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  3. 1 2 Forest Service Fire Ecology
  4. ↑ Flora of North America, Yellow or sticky-leaf rabbitbrush, Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hooker) Nuttall
  5. ↑ An unusual m-hydroxyacetophenone and three new chromanone derivatives from Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus. le-van Ngo and Van Cuong Pham Thi, Phytochemistry, Volume 20, Issue 3, 13 March 1981, Pages 485–487, doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)84171-0
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Subspecies and varieties recognized by USDA — Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus Subordinate Taxa . accessed 5 September 2015
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Subspecies recognized by Calflora Database for Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus . accessed 5 September 2015
  8. ↑ Subspecies recognized by The Plant List, Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus, Kew Gardens, London.
  9. ↑ Subspecies distributions from Flora of North America.
  10. ↑ Jepson eFlora: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris
  11. ↑ Jepson eFlora: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. lanceolatus
  12. ↑ Jepson eFlora: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. puberulus
  13. ↑ Jepson eFlora: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. viscidiflorus
  14. ↑ Greene, Edward Lee 1895. Erythea 3(6): 96
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