Asteraceae
Rubber rabbitbrush
Ericameria nauseosa
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Ericameria
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Common names
By language (4)
- Chinese
- 一枝黃
- chy
- Oévêheséeo'ôtse
- English
- Rubber rabbitbrush, Gray or Common Rabbit-brush, Common rabbit-brush, Gray rabbit-brush
- nv
- Kʼiiłtsoii
Synonyms
- Bigelowia nauseosa (Pall. ex Pursh) M.E.Jones
- Bigelowia nauseosa var. nauseosa
- Chondrophora nauseosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Britton
- Chondrophora nauseosa var. nauseosa
- Chrysocoma nauseosa Pall.
- Chrysocoma nauseosa Pall. ex Pursh
- Chrysothamnus californicus Greene
- Chrysothamnus collinus Greene
- Chrysothamnus concolor Rydb.
- Chrysothamnus frigidus Greene
- Chrysothamnus frigidus var. concolor A.Nelson
- Chrysothamnus nauseosus (Pall. ex Pursh) Britton
- Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. californicus H.M.Hall
- Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. macrophyllus J.T.Howell
- Chrysothamnus nauseosus var. viridulus H.M.Hall
- Chrysothamnus pallidus A.Nelson
- Chrysothamnus plattensis Greene
- Ericameria nauseosa subsp. nauseosa
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Wsiegmund assumed, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: John Rusk from Berkeley, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, 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.