Chrysothamnus
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- For Gray and Parry's rabbitbrush see EricameriaEricameriaEricameria is a genus of shrubs in the Asteraceae or daisy family known by the common names rabbitbrush, rabbitbush, and goldenbush. These are semi-deciduous shrubs familiarly known as to sagebrush. They are distributed in the arid western United States and northern Mexico. Bright yellow flowers...
Chrysothamnus (common names include rabbitbrush, rabbitbush, and chamisa) is a member of the plant family Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
. It is a semi-deciduous
Deciduous
Deciduous means "falling off at maturity" or "tending to fall off", and is typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally, and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after flowering or fruit when ripe...
shrub, sometimes also called sagebrush
Sagebrush
Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby plant species in the genus Artemisia native to western North America;Or, the sagebrush steppe ecoregion, having one or more kinds of sagebrush, bunchgrasses and others;...
. The native distribution is in the arid western United States and northern Mexico. It is known for its bright white or yellow flowers in late summer.
Chrysothamnus species are used as food plants by the larva
Larva
A larva is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle...
e of some Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
species including Coleophora linosyridella
Coleophora
Coleophora is a very large genus of moths of the family Coleophoridae. It contains some 1,350 described species. The genus is represented on all continents, but the majority are found in the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions...
, Coleophora viscidiflorella
Coleophora
Coleophora is a very large genus of moths of the family Coleophoridae. It contains some 1,350 described species. The genus is represented on all continents, but the majority are found in the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions...
(which have both been recorded on C. viscidiflorus) and Schinia walsinghami
Schinia
Schinia, commonly called Flower Moths, is a large genus of moths belonging to the family Noctuidae. The genus has a Holarctic distribution with the vast majority of species being found in North America, many with a very restricted range and larval food plant.-Species Information and Food Plants:...
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Species include:
- Chrysothamnus albidus - whiteflower rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus depressus - dwarf rabbitbrush, longflower rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus eremobius - pintwater rabbitbrush, remote rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus gramineus - Panamint rock rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus greenei - Greene's rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus humilis - Truckee rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus molestus - Arizona rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus nauseosusChrysothamnus nauseosusEricameria nauseosa , commonly known as Chamisa, rubber rabbitbrush, and gray rabbitbrush, is a shrub of the genus Ericameria that grows in the arid regions of western North America. Two subspecies have been described, nauseosa and consimilis...
- tall blue rabbitbrush, chamisa, rabbitbush - Chrysothamnus vaseyi - Vasey's rabbitbrush
- Chrysothamnus viscidiflorusChrysothamnus viscidiflorusChrysothamnus viscidiflorus is a species of shrub in the daisy family known by the common names yellow rabbitbrush and green rabbitbrush. It is native to western North America, from British Columbia to California to Nebraska, where it grows in sagebrush and woodland habitat. It grows easily in...
- yellow rabbitbrush