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Brickellia baccharidea

Brickellia oblongifolia

narrow-leaved brickellbush, narrow-leaved thoroughwort
Habit Glandular-puberulent, perennial herb or sub-shrub, usually with many stems from near the base, 1-6 dm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves usually entire and sessile, oblong to lance-linear, 1-4 cm. long and up to 15 mm. wide.
Flowers

Heads discoid, cylindric, terminating the branches, usually several per stem;

involucre 10-20 mm. high, the bracts acute, striate, imbricate in several series;

corollas creamy white, 10-50 in each head;

pappus of barbellate bristles.
Fruits

Achene 10-ribbed.

Brickellia baccharidea

Brickellia oblongifolia
Flowering time May-August
Habitat Dry, often rocky places from lowland sagebrush desert to middle elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California east to the Rocky Mountains.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
B. grandiflora, B. microphylla, B. oblongifolia
B. grandiflora, B. microphylla
Subordinate taxa
B. oblongifolia var. oblongifolia
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