Oh, good.
That narrows it down to about 15,000 species…
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Chrysopsis? 
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Is the trunk actually zylopodium?
How bout a closeup of the bracts…
Not an Aster.
Kurt P, I don’t have any pics of the bracts as I cut off the drying flowers months ago and stored the seeds.
Can’t pull the rabbit brush fluff over your eyes…?
Closeup of the leaves then…
Here you go. The leaves are tiny. Less than a cm each. New leaves are produced from the tip throughout the summer and the leaves from earlier in the summer brown and die. I think that this is why they form such nice pads in nature, they are always building up, competing with themselves, filling in gaps.
Is it mountain phlox?
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That’s what I thought it was when I first tried to ID it…but nope.
Baccharis of some kind? If not, give us a habitat clue
Not Baccharis.
It grows in the arid/rocky soils of Eastern Washington, Idaho and and Oregon.
Ericameria/Chrysothamnus/Haplopappus?
Whatever it is, it’s very nice
Erigeron filifolius? Threadleaf fleabane? Doesnt have a woody structure… and the photo leaves are not fuzzy at the base…hmmm
Could it be Grindelia nana Gumplant or Gumweed
Just letting everyone know that Asteraceae and Composite are the same family 
It could be in one of these genera 
I’m going with Ericameria sp., that’s all I got
Another Hint? Will you give the flower color up?
The flowers were white.
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Hmm, another guess: is it pussytoes??
Similar flowers though.
I think I made a mistake here. I’m not exactly a taxonomist. It could be in the genera Ericameria. I thought Ericameria sp. meant a specific variety of Ericameria not the entire genera.
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Only thing I’m coming up with is Rabbitbrush, but you said white flowers