Ericameria cooperi explained

Ericameria cooperi, or Cooper's goldenbush, is a North American species of shrubs that grows in the desert regions of southern Nevada, southern and eastern California, and Baja California.^{[1] [2]} It is in the goldenbush genus in the (sunflower family).^[1]

Ericameria cooperi is a shrub. Leaves are long and narrow, sometimes thread-like, without hairs. One plant can produce several flower heads in a flat-topped array, each head containing 6-7 disc florets but no ray florets.^[3]

Varieties^[4]

• Ericameria cooperi var. bajacalifornica (Urbatsch & Wussow) Urbatsch - Baja California
• Ericameria cooperi var. cooperi - Baja California, California, Nevada

External links

• Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in California in 1882, syntype of Aster monactis, syn of Ericameria cooperi

Notes and References

1. Web site: Calflora taxon report: Ericameria cooperi . calflora.org. 2015-05-16.
2. http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Ericameria%20cooperi.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3072048#page/648/mode/1up Gray, Asa 1879. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 640
4. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250066514 Flora of North America, Cooper’s goldenbush, Ericameria cooperi (A. Gray) H. M. Hall