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Encelia californica
Also called Coast Sunflower
California brittlebush (Encelia californica) is a bushy, drought-tolerant shrub from coastal and inland southern California and Baja California, grown for its bright yellow daisy-like flowers. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil and is frost sensitive.
Encelia californica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae It is commonly referred to as California coast sunflower and California bush sunflower.
This shrub is native to southern California (U.S.) and northern Baja California (México). It is a member of the coastal sage plant community at the shoreline, and the chaparral and woodlands plant community on inland foothills in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges.
It is a host plant for the larvae of the Bay checkerspot butterfly, a threatened species.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Encelia californica 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.
