Ericameria pinifolia

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Ericameria pinifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Genus: Ericameria
Species: E. pinifolia
Binomial name
Ericameria pinifolia
(Gray) H.M. Hall
Synonyms

Haplopappus pinifolius

Ericameria pinifolia is a species of flowering shrub in the daisy family known by the common name pinebush. This plant is endemic to southern California where it is found in scrub and chaparral from the inland Peninsular and western Transverse Ranges foothills to the Colorado Desert.

Description

Ericameria pinifolia is a green, hairless shrub reaching maximum heights of one half to two meters. It is covered in clustered needlelike leaves each one to four centimeters long which at first glance look like very young pine needles. The leaves are more fleshy than true needles and the plant is not related to the pines.

Atop each of the many erect branches is an inflorescence of small whitish flower heads. The plant blooms twice per year, producing single-head inflorescences in the spring and inflorescences with many smaller heads in the fall. The fruit is an achene with a bright white, red, or tan pappus.

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