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herbaceous; petal-like ray flowers usually present but not conspicuous; achenes 

 silky-hairy; pappus bristles fine, soft and white. 



Occurrence. — YOSEMITE. about 10,000 feet: above Fletcher Lake; 5 miles west of 

 Ireland Lake. SEQUOIA: near Farewell Gap (outside Park boundary). YELLOW.STONE: 

 Electric Peak, 8,500 feet. GRAND TETON : Taylor Peak, 7,800 feet. 



Var. tenuis, with linear leaves and smaller heads. YOSEMITE: Mount Hoffmann, 

 near May Lake, 9,800 feet; Mono Pass; Mount Gibbs ; Mount Dana. SEQUOIA: Mount 

 Guyot, 10,950 feet; near Farewell Gap (outside park boundary.). 



8. Rabbitbrush Goldenweed (Aplopappus Bloomeri Gray) . — Low, 

 round-topped shrub, 1 to 2 (or 3) feet high, with numerous clustered ascend- 

 ing branches; bark reddish-brown, becoming dull and shreddy on old stems; 

 leaves green, the upper somewhat sticky-glandular or white-woolly (all white- 

 woolly in var. Sonnet), narrowly oblong to linear (filiform and often curved 

 in var. angustatus), % to 2 inches long; flower heads borne along the upper 

 part of the branchlets, forming oblong leafy clusters; involucre about 1/3 to 

 1/2 inch high, the bracts loosely imbricated in several series, the outer linear 

 lance-shaped with green, herbaceous, usually spreading tips, the inner oblong- 

 lance-shaped, pointed, papery, the margins somewhat frayed; petal-like ray 

 flowers 1 to 5 or lacking; achenes densely hairy to glabrous; pappus bristles 

 fine, soft, white or becoming dingy-looking. (Syn. Chrysothamnus Bloomeri 



(Gray) Greene.) 



Field Guide to the Varieties 



Leaves green, the upper somewhat glandular or white-woolly. 



Leaves narrowly oblong to linear 8. A. Bloomeri. 



Leaves very narrowly linear or filiform 8a. Var. angustatus. 



Leaves all white-woolly 8b. Var. Sonnei. 



Occurrence {A. Bloomeri). — CRATER LAKE, 6,000 to 7,500 feet: rim of Crater 

 Lake; flat below Crater Lake Lodge; park headquarters; Bald Crater; Sand Creek 

 above the Pinnacles; Timber Crater; Copeland Creek. LASSEN, common, 6.C00 to 

 7,000 feet: mouth of West Fork Hat Creek; Cinder Cone area; Lost Creek below 

 Raker Peak. YOSEMITE, 6,000 lo 9,500 feet: South Fork Illilouette Creek; Little Yo- 

 semite; Merced Lake trail; north of Irving Bright Lake; Sentinel Dome; southeast 

 corner of park on ridge between Buena Vista and Ottoway Creek. SEQUOIA: Chagoopa 

 Plateau, 10,000 feet. 



8a. Narrowleaf Goldenweed (Var. angustatus Gray). — Leaves very 



narrowly linear or filiform; usually curved and spreading. 



Occurrence. — CRATER LAKE: Wheeler Creek at the Pinnacles; Sand Creek; Sun 

 Creek; Annie Creek at south entrance to park; vicinity of Crater Peak. LASSEN: Las- 

 sen Peak; Devastated Area. YOSEMITE: most of the specimens listed under the rpecies 

 are very close to var. angustatus. SEQUOIA: Soda Spring Meadow, Kaweah River Basin, 

 1 1 ,000 feet. 



8b. Woolly Goldenweed (Var. Sonnei Greene) . — Leaves densely 

 white-woolly. 



Occurrence. — YOSEMITE: Clark Creek drainage, 7,600 feet. 



9. Greene's Goldenweed (Aplopappus Greenei Gray). — Similar to 

 Aplopappus Bloomeri, but plants usually smaller; involucral bracts mostly 



