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Brickellia atractyloides
Also called Attractive Brickellbush
Spearleaf brickellbush is a small desert shrub from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, growing up to about 50 cm tall with cream or pale green flower heads. It is a drought-tolerant wild plant best suited to a dry, sunny garden with very well-drained soil.
Brickellia atractyloides is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name spearleaf brickellbush. It is native to the desert regions of the southwestern United States (Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California).
Brickellia atractyloides is a shrub up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. It produces many small flower heads with cream-colored or pale green disc florets but no ray florets.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brickellia atractyloides 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.
