Brickellia oblongifolia var. linifolia

Narrow leaved brickellia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Narrow leaved brickellia is a California native perennial found in the Mojave Desert, eastern Sierra Nevada, and southern Sierra Nevada in desert, grassland, and dry rocky hillsides at elevations of 1,200 to 2,800 meters. Flowering from April to October, this plant produces pale yellow-green to cream flowers often tinged with purple in heads 10 to 20 millimeters long. Growing with branched stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall that are dotted with stalked glands and short hairs, it forms a woody caudex. Its alternate leaves are 9 to 40 millimeters long, elliptic to lance-linear, with surfaces covered in puberulent or long crooked hairs. The fruit is 3 to 7 millimeters long with a pappus of 18 to 25 minutely barbed bristles.

Habitat: Desert, grassland, dry rocky hillsides

Bloom period: Apr-Oct

Elevation: 1200-2800 m

Bioregions: SnJt, SNE, D

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.