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Yellow rabbitbrush

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

Also called Green Rubber Rabbit-brush, Douglas rabbitbrush, Green rabbitbrush, Douglas' rabbitbrush, Sticky-leaf Rabbitbrush, Sticky Leaved Rabbitbrush, Yellowbrush

Yellow rabbitbrush
Photo: Wallace Keck, Public domain
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. Canada to W. & C. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus is an American species of shrub in the family Asteraceae known by the common names yellow rabbitbrush and green rabbitbrush.

Where it grows

The plant is widespread in North America across much of the western United States and western Canada, from British Columbia and Montana south to California and New Mexico, with a few populations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in western Nebraska, as well as in South America in the Andean valleys of Chile and Argentina.

Other Chrysothamnus plants

Longflower rabbitbrush · Pintwater rabbitbrush · Greene's rabbitbrush · Truckee rabbitbrush · Arizona rabbitbrush · Grand Canyon Glowweed · Pillar False Gumweed · Vasey's rabbitbrush · Rabbitbrush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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