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Encelia actoni
Also called Acton's Brittlebush, Acton Brittlebush
Acton encelia is a multi-branched, drought-tolerant desert shrub with gray-green woolly leaves and yellow daisy-like flowers in spring. It thrives in full sun with very little water once established.
Encelia actoni, also known by the common names Acton brittlebush and Acton encelia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
It is sometimes misspelled Encelia actonii.
Encelia actoni is cultivated as an ornamental plant for drought tolerant and wildlife gardens, natural landscaping design, and habitat restoration projects. It needs sun and after the first summer, very limited to no supplemental irrigation.
It is a honey plant, supporting diverse pollinators. The plant has a low fuel load, and so has fire retardant qualities in wildfire zones.
The plant is native to southern California and neighboring areas of Nevada in the U.S. and Baja California in México. It grows in various types of open habitat, including deserts, chaparral, and grasslands.
California brittlebush · Encelia densifolia · Brittlebush · Encelia ravenii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Encelia actoni 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.
