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California Brittlebush/ Encelia California – 50 Seeds – USA

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Brand : Home-Growth
Life Cycle : Annual
Type : Flower
Watering : Medium
Sunlight : Full Sun
Season of Interest : Summer
Cultivating Difficulty : Easy
Color : Yellow, Brown
Genus : Asteraceae
Country/Region of Manufacture : United States
Common Name : Brittlebush
Indoor/Outdoor : Outdoor
Features : Flowering

It is a bushy, sprawling shrub reaching between one half and 1.5 meters in height. It has many thin branches covered in widely spaced green leaves which are a rounded diamond shape. The solitary flower heads are daisylike, with 15 to 25 bright yellow ray florets 1 to 3 centimeters long around a center of protruding yellowish to purplish brown disc florets. The fruit is an achene 5 to 7 millimeters long, with no pappus. It blooms from February to June, and attracts butterflies, bees, and other insects. This is a very fast growing and easy to grow plant. It is beautiful in winter and spring with its abundant yellow flowers, and it readily reseeds and will quickly spread throughout a landscape. This plant is fast growing, easy, and will bloom any time it has moisture and moderate temperatures. It makes a good cut flower. There is one horticultural variety known as ‘El Dorado.’ Probably one of the easiest ways to add color to a garden in southern California. Downsides of this plant are that it can become invasive and choke out other plants, and is semi-summer deciduous, and will often look weedy and almost dead in the summer and fall, and is fairly short-lived. It’s often planted to start a native garden, and then replaced with longer-lived shrubs over time.

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