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Ambrosia eriocentra
Also called Hollyleaf bursage, Woolly-Fruit Burr-Ragweed, Woolly bursage, Wooly bursage, Woolly Bur Sage
Woolly bursage is a rounded desert shrub native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States, growing over 1.5 m tall. It is a wild plant rarely grown in gardens, and it needs full sun, very good drainage and very little water.
Ambrosia eriocentra is a North American species of ragweed known by the common names woolly bursage and woollyfruit burr ragweed.
The plant is native to the Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States, within southern California, southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Utah.
Flatspine bur ragweed · Ambrosia leaf bur ragweed · Ambrosia arborescens · Annual ragweed · Lanceleaf ragweed · Silver bur ragweed · Rio Grande ragweed · San Diego bur ragweed · Weakleaf bur ragweed · Tucson bur ragweed · Triangle bur ragweed · Burrobush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ambrosia eriocentra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
