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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Ericameria
Section:	Ericameria
Species:	E. cooperi
Binomial name
*Ericameria cooperi* (A.Gray) H.M.Hall
Synonyms
Aster cooperi (A.Gray) Kuntze Aster monactis (A.Gray) Kuntze Bigelowia cooperi A.Gray Bigelovia cooperi A.Gray Chrysoma cooperi (A.Gray) Greene Ericameria monactis (A.Gray) McClatchie Haplopappus cooperi (A.Gray) H.M.Hall Haplopappus monactis A.Gray

Ericameria cooperi (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. 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.

Varieties

Ericameria cooperi var. bajacalifornica (Urbatsch & Wussow) Urbatsch - Baja California
Ericameria cooperi var. cooperi - Baja California, California, Nevada

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