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| name = ''Encelia farinosa''<br />
| image = Encelia farinosa form.jpg<br />
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Asterales]]<br />
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Encelia]]''<br />
| species = '''''E. farinosa'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Encelia farinosa''<br />
| binomial_authority = [[John Torrey|Torr.]] & [[Asa Gray|A.Gray]]<br />
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'''''Encelia farinosa''''', or '''Brittlebush''', is a common [[desert]] [[shrub]] of northwestern [[Mexico]] and southwestern [[United States]]. Its common name comes from the brittleness of its [[Plant stem|stems]]. <br />
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It is also called ''incienso'' because its dried stems were burned by early [[Spanish missions in California|Spanish settlers]] as [[incense]].<br />
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==Description==<br />
''Encelia farinosa'' grows to 1 m tall, with fragrant [[leaf|leaves]] 3-8 cm long, ovate to deltoid, and silvery tomentose. The [[capitulum|capitula]] are 3-3.5 cm diameter, with orange-yellow [[ray floret]]s and yellow or purple-brown [[disc floret]]s. They are arranged in loose [[panicle]]s above the leafy stems [[fruit]] 3-6 mm and there is no pappus.<br />
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==Habitat Characteristics==<br />
''Encelia farinosa'' can be found in a variety of habitats from dry gravelly slopes to open sandy washes up to 1000 m. It does well in cultivation and recently has spread dramatically in areas not natural to its distribution in large part because [[California Department of Transportation|CalTrans]] has begun to use it in [[hydroseeding]]. <br />
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[[Category:Asteraceae]]<br />
[[Category:Flora of California]]<br />
[[Category:Flora of the Colorado Desert]]<br />
[[Category:Flora of the Mojave Desert]]<br />
[[Category:Flora of the Sonoran Desert]]<br />
[[Category:Flora of the Lower Colorado River Valley]]</div>217.113.20.108