Flora of North America species comparison

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Brickellia frutescens

rigid brickellbush, shrubby brickellbush, shrubby brickellia
Habit Shrubs, 30–60 cm.
Stems

intricately branched, hirtellous, sparsely gland-dotted.
Leaves

alternate;

petioles 1–2 mm;

blades (venation obscure) oblong to spatulate, 3–12 × 1–4 mm, bases acute to acuminate, margins entire, apices acute to obtuse, faces tomentose, gland-dotted.
Peduncles

10–30 mm, villous, gland-dotted.
Involucres

cylindric, 9–11 mm.
Florets

20–30;

corollas purplish, 6.5–7.5 mm.
Phyllaries

20–25 in 5–6 series, greenish, often purple-tinged, 4–5-striate, unequal, (sparsely villous, gland-dotted) margins narrowly scarious (apices rounded, mucronate);

outer ovate to lanceolate (ciliate), inner linear-oblong.
Heads

in paniculiform arrays.
Cypselae

3.5–4.8 mm, hispidulous;

pappi of 26–30 white, barbellulate bristles.

Brickellia frutescens
Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Granitic desert slopes or sands
Elevation 600–1200 m (2000–3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 500.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Brickellia
Sibling taxa
B. amplexicaulis, B. atractyloides, B. baccharidea, B. betonicifolia, B. brachyphylla, B. californica, B. chenopodina, B. cordifolia, B. coulteri, B. cylindracea, B. dentata, B. desertorum, B. eupatorioides, B. floribunda, B. grandiflora, B. greenei, B. hinckleyi, B. incana, B. knappiana, B. laciniata, B. lemmonii, B. longifolia, B. microphylla, B. nevinii, B. oblongifolia, B. parvula, B. pringlei, B. rusbyi, B. simplex, B. venosa, B. veronicifolia
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 207. (1882)
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