Ericameria cooperi, or Cooper's goldenbush, is a North American species of shrubs that grows in the desert regions of southern Nevada, southern and eastern California, and Baja California.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map It is in the goldenbush genus in the (sunflower family).
Ericameria cooperi is a shrub. Leaves are long and narrow, sometimes thread-like, without hairs. One plant can produce several flower heads in a flat-topped array, each head containing 6-7 disc florets but no ray florets.Gray, Asa 1879. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 640 in Latin, as Bigelovia cooperi
VarietiesFlora of North America, Cooper’s goldenbush, Ericameria cooperi (A. Gray) H. M. Hall Ericameria cooperi var. bajacalifornica (Urbatsch & Wussow) Urbatsch - Baja California Ericameria cooperi var. cooperi - Baja California, California, Nevada
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External links Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in California in 1882, syntype of Aster monactis, syn of Ericameria cooperi