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|accepted_name=Ericameria ophitidis
|accepted_authority=(J. T. Howell) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=68: 153. 1990
|year=1990
}}
|common_names=Serpentine goldenbush
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Haplopappus bloomeri var. ophitidis
|authority=J. T. Howell
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Haplopappus ophitidis
|authority=(J. T. Howell) D. D. Keck
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Ericameria;Ericameria ophitidis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ericameria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ericameria ophitidis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 53
|treatment_page=page 70
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>10–30 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect to spreading, green when young, becoming reddish brown, intricately branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, sometimes resinous. <b>Leaves</b> ascending to spreading; blades linear (slightly concave), usually recurved, 5–15 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves evident abaxially, apices acute, usually mucronate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy, gland-dotted (not in deep pits), ± resinous; axillary fascicles of 4–7 leaves usually present. <b>Heads</b> borne singly or (2–7) in cymiform arrays (clusters 3–20 mm). <b>Peduncles</b> 1–10 mm (glabrous or with conic hairs, resinous). <b>Involucres</b> subcylindric, 10–15 × 3–7 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 18–30 in 5–7 series, tan, ovate to elliptic, 2–12 × 1–2.5 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, occasionally herbaceous-tipped (mid bodies apically obtuse to truncate), appendages usually herbaceous, often spreading to recurved, midnerves faint, (margins membranous, fimbriate distally, otherwise sometimes ciliolate) apices acute to cuspidate, abaxial faces mostly resinous. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 5–6; corollas 9–10.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to brown, turbinate to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–7 mm (ribs 5–7), moderately hairy distally; pappi off-white to brown, 9–10.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open coniferous forest, usually on serpentine soil, Arid Transition Zone
|elevation=1500–1700 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Ericameria ophitidisis is known from northern California.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ericameria ophitidis
|author=
|authority=(J. T. Howell) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Haplopappus ophitidis
|basionyms=Haplopappus bloomeri var. ophitidis
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open coniferous forest, usually on serpentine soil, Arid Transition Zone
|elevation=1500–1700 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1990
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Ericameria
|species=Ericameria ophitidis
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