- Source: Brickellia californica
Brickellia californica, known by the common name California brickellbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Distribution and habitat
The plant is native to Northern Mexico in Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila states; and much of the Western United States, across California north to Oregon, northeast to Idaho and Wyoming, and east through the Southwestern states to Colorado, New Mexico, and West Texas.
It is found below 2,700 metres (8,900 ft), in many habitat types including forests, woodlands, scrub, grasslands, and deserts.
It is a common plant in many types of California habitats, including chaparral, coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, valley grassland, yellow pine forest, Sierra Nevada subalpine zone, and Mojave Desert sky islands.
Description
Brickellia californica is a thickly branching shrub growing 5–200 cm (2–78.5 in) in height. The fuzzy, glandular leaves are roughly triangular in shape with toothed to serrated edges. The leaves are 1 - 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 bloom period is August through November.
The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene 3 millimeters long with a pappus of bristles.
= Medicinal plant
=The Navajo and Kumeyaay (Diegueño) peoples used it as a traditional medicinal plant for fevers, coughs, and prenatal complications.
References
External links
Calflora Database: Brickellia californica (California brickellbush)
Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Brickellia californica
USDA Plants Profile for Brickellia californica (California brickellbush)
UC CalPhotos gallery of Brickellia californica
Media related to Brickellia californica at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Brickellia californica
- Brickellia
- B. californica
- Schinia buta
- Brickellia desertorum
- List of flora of the Mojave Desert region
- Schinia
- List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name
- List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers
- List of flora of Ohio
