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Plant Description

Origin: Native  Similar Species: E. farinosa
General Description: Evergreen. Much branched shrub with slender hairy branches; young stems with simple spreading hairs. Virgin River brittlebush shares the majority of its native range with and appears similar to the related brittlebush E. farinosa.
Identification notes: A smaller mature plant size, solitary flower heads at the end of hairy stems with both disk and ray flowers and a whorl of bracts subtending the flower head that is not glandular distinguishes this from other Encelia species.
Height: 3 feet     Width: 3 feet

Habitat

Habitat Description: Plant is found in desert flats, on rocky slopes, and along roadsides in sandy, dry and well drained soil.
Plant Communities: Desert Scrub, Semidesert Grasslands, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 1000 - 5000 feet

Flowers

Color: Yellow with orange disc flowers   Shape: Daisy or dandelion-like, not in clusters    Tubular: N   Flowering Period: Mar - Jun
Description: Ray flowers 11 to 21 per bloom; petals less than 1/2 inch long. Disc flower corollas are less than 1/4 inch across.

Leaves

Leaf Color: Grayish-green to bluish-gray    Type: Simple   Shape: Round or oval   Margin: Smooth   Attachment: Alternate and opposite   Hairs: Top and bottom of leaves
Description: Leaves are scattered along the stem, 1/2 to 1 inch long, narrowly ovate to triangular, grayish-green and covered in short fine hairs.

Fruit

Color: Dark brown to black   Type: Achene   Description: Seed is oval or wedge-shaped, hairy. Rarely 1 to 2 bristle-like awns.

Bark/Branches

Bark Color: Grayish-green to brown   Bark Texture (Mature): Smooth   Bark and Branch Description: Bush has many slender branches coming from base. Stems branch in the lower part of the plant. Young stems are hairy; older stems can have fissured bark.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N
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