Brickellia californica

Taxobox
name = "Brickellia californica"

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image_width = 210px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
unranked_classis = eudicot
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
subfamilia = Asteroideae
tribus = Eupatorieae
genus = "Brickellia"
species = "B. californica"
binomial = "Brickellia californica"
binomial_authority = (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray

"Brickellia californica" is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name California brickellbush. It is native to western North America from Baja California to Idaho to Oklahoma. It is a common plant in many habitat types, especially in dry areas. This is a thickly branching shrub growing one half to two meters in height. The fuzzy, glandular leaves are roughly triangular in shape with toothed to serrated edges. The leaves are 1 to 6 centimeters long. The inflorescences at the end of stem branches contain many small leaves and bunches of narrow, cylindrical flower heads. Each head is about 13 millimeters long and wrapped in flat, wide, purplish green overlapping phyllaries. At the tip of the head are a number of long white to pink disc florets. The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene 3 millimeters long with a pappus of bristles.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?609,831,836 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=BRCA3 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Brickellia+californica Photo gallery]