Low rabbitbrush

Chrysothamnus parryi (A. Gray) Greene subsp. imulus H. M. Hall & Clements, Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 326: 200. 1923

Plants 10–20 cm. Leaves crowded, gray; blades 1-nerved, spatulate to linear-spatulate, 10–15 × 2–3 mm, faces densely tomentose, eglandu-lar ; distalmost not overtopping arrays. Heads usually 3–5 in ± racemiform arrays. Involucres 10–12 mm. Phyllaries ca. 16, chartaceous, apices erect (outer sometimes herbaceous, reddish), abruptly acute. Florets 10–18; corollas 10–12 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely villous, throats ± abruptly dilated, lobes 1.4–1.5 mm. 2n = 18.

Flowering late summer–fall. Dry flats and yellow-pine forests; 2000–2200 m; Calif.

Variety imula is known only from southern San Bernardino County.