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Encelia frutescens
Also called Brittlebush, Bush Encelia, Rayless Encelia
Button brittlebush is a desert shrub in the daisy family, native to the Mojave and surrounding Southwest U.S. and northern Mexico. It thrives in full sun and very dry, well-drained soil, and is one of the first plants to recolonize disturbed or burned ground.
Encelia frutescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names button brittlebush and bush encelia.
This is a plant of the deserts in the Southwestern United States, especially the Mojave Desert in California, and also Nevada and Arizona.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Encelia frutescens 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.
