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Ericameria pinifolia is a species of flowering shrubs in the family Asteraceae known by the common name pinebush. This plant is native to southern California and northern Baja California.[5][6]

Ericameria pinifolia
Conservation status
Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Ericameria
Species:	E. pinifolia
Binomial name
Ericameria pinifolia (Gray) H.M. Hall
Synonyms[2]
Aster pityphyllus Kuntze Chrysoma pinifolia (A.Gray) Greene Haplopappus pinifolius A.Gray Aplopappus pinifolius A.Gray[3][4]

Ericameria pinifolia is found in scrub and chaparral from the inland Peninsular and western Transverse Ranges foothills to the Colorado Desert. It is a green, hairless shrub sometimes as much as 300 cm (10 feet) tall. It is covered in clustered needle-like leaves each 1-4 centimeters (0.4-1.6 inches) long which at first glance look like very young pine needles. The leaves are fleshier than true needles and the plant is not closely related to the pines.[7]

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. Each head contains 3–10 ray florets and 11–25 disc florets. The fruit is an achene with a bright white, red, or tan pappus.[7]

References

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment — Ericameria pinifolia
• United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile: Ericameria pinifolia (pinebush)
• Ericameria pinifolia — Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California

Media related to Ericameria pinifolia at Wikimedia Commons

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