Brickellia californica, known by the common name California brickellbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.[1][2]
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.[3]
It is found below 2,700 metres (8,900 ft), in many habitat types including forests, woodlands, scrub, grasslands, and deserts.[2][4]
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.[1][2]
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.[2]
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.[2] The bloom period is August through November.[1]
The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene 3 millimeters long with a pappus of bristles.[2][5]
The Navajo and Kumeyaay (Diegueño) peoples used it as a traditional medicinal plant for fevers, coughs, and prenatal complications.[6]
Brickellia californica, known by the common name California brickellbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Brickellia californica es una especie de planta fanerógama perteneciente a la familia de las asteráceas.[1]
Es otiginaria del norte de México (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila) y el oeste de los Estados Unidos (de California al norte de Oregon y de Idaho, este hasta el oeste de Texas y Oklahoma.[2] Es una planta común en muchos tipos de hábitat, especialmente en las zonas secas.[3]
Brickellia californica es un arbusto densamente ramificado que alcanza un tamaño de hasta 200 cm de altura. Los difusos, las hojas glandulares son más o menos triangulares con los bordes dentados. Las hojas son de 1-6 centímetros de largo. Las inflorescencias al final de las ramas contienen muchas pequeñas hojas y racimos de estrechas, cilíndricas cabezas de las flores. Cada cabeza es de unos 13 milímetros de largo y envuelto en filarios verdes planos, de color púrpura superpuestos . En la punta de la cabeza una serie de largos floretes del disco de color blanco a rosa. El fruto es un cilíndrico y peludo aquenio de 3 milímetros de largo con un vilano de pelos.[4]
Brickellia californica fue descrita por (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray y publicado en Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Science, new series 4(1): 64. 1849.[5]
Brickellia: nombre genérico otorgado en honor del médico y naturalista estadounidense John Brickell (1749-1809).[6]
californica; epíteto geográfico que alude a su localización en California.
Brickellia californica es una especie de planta fanerógama perteneciente a la familia de las asteráceas.
Brickellia californica là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1849.[1]
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