Asteraceae
Green rubber rabbit-brush
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Chrysothamnus
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Common names
By language (2)
- English
- Green rubber rabbit-brush, Sticky-leaf rabbitbrush, Yellow rabbitbrush, Douglas rabbitbrush, Douglas' rabbitbrush, Green rabbitbrush
- nv
- Chʼil dilyésiitsoh
Synonyms
- Aster viscidiflorus Kuntze
- Bigelowia douglasii A.Gray
- Bigelowia douglasii var. douglasii
- Bigelowia douglasii var. spathulata M.E.Jones
- Bigelowia visciflora
- Chrysothamnus leucocladus Greene
- Chrysothamnus pumilus var. acuminatus A.Nelson
- Chrysothamnus pumilus var. latus A.Nelson
- Chrysothamnus pumilus var. pumilus
- Chrysothamnus pumilus var. varus A.Nelson
- Chrysothamnus stenolepis Rydb.
- Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. stenolepis (Rydb.) S.F.Blake
- Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. typicus (H.M.Hall & Clem.) Cronquist
- Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. viscidiflorus
- Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. viscidiflorus
- Crinitaria viscidiflora Hook.
- Ericameria viscidiflora (Hook.) L.C.Anderson
- Ericameria viscidiflora subsp. viscidiflora
- Ericameria viscidiflora var. viscidiflora
- Linosyris viscidiflora Torr. & A.Gray
- Linosyris viscidiflora var. viscidiflora
Flowers
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.