Ericameria parishii (Parish's rabbitbrush)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ericameria parishii, photographed by Madeleine Claire — fig. a Madeleine Claire, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 194235437

Ericameria parishii, photographed by Daniel S. — fig. b Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171214159

Ericameria parishii, photographed by Dan Horowitz — fig. c Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160608365

Ericameria parishii, photographed by Amy — fig. d Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125653094

Ericameria parishii, photographed by Jesse Rorabaugh — fig. g Jesse Rorabaugh, CC0 1.0 / obs. 74737116

Ericameria parishii, photographed by Amthinkia — fig. h Amthinkia, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60278285

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ericameria parishii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
California	CAL	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northwest	MXN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 142 in flower of 187 examined

29%

85%

100%

92%

71%

55%

Proportion of examined Ericameria parishii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	2	7	29%	8% to 64%
Feb	1	2	too few examined
Mar	0	2	too few examined
Apr	0	4	too few examined
May	0	3	too few examined
Jun	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Jul	2	7	29%	8% to 64%
Aug	17	20	85%	64% to 95%
Sep	45	45	100%	92% to 100%
Oct	49	53	92%	82% to 97%
Nov	20	28	71%	53% to 85%
Dec	6	11	55%	28% to 79%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Ericameria parishii observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 142 of 187 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Aster parishii Kuntze
Bigelowia parishii Greene
Chrysoma parishii Greene
Haplopappus arborescens subsp. parishii (Greene) Moran
Haplopappus arborescens subsp. peninsularis Moran
Haplopappus arborescens var. peninsularis Moran
Haplopappus parishii S.F.Blake

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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