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Acton's Brittlebush

Encelia actoni

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 234, February 203, March 215, April 467, May 455, June 187, July 160, August 163, September 207, October 211, November 272, December 210.
United States3,428
California2,574
Nevada851
Arizona3
Mexico3
Baja California3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
Genusbrittlebushes · Encelia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Acton's Brittlebush with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.