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Rubber rabbitbrush 



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edge of loaf scar: star-shaped hairs on twigs, seed pods and 

 bud scales; rootstocks long-spreading, with yellow pith: 

 much-branched, erect shrubs to 6 feet high; burned or cut- 

 over areas, rocky dry hillsides, washes, open woods or 

 roadsides: common. Wallowa and Blue Mts., ne. Oreg., se. 

 Wash.. mallow ninebark (Physocarpus malvaceus). 



Bark not peeling in many layers as above, sometimes loose- 

 stringy or flaking off in small, thin patches on older stems. 

 6. Fruits more or less seedlike (achenes, follicles, capsules), 

 massed in distinctive clusters; true end buds lacking, 

 stem tips dying back to topmost side bud. 



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