About Brickellia incana A.Gray
Brickellia incana A.Gray is a North American flowering plant species in the Asteraceae family, commonly called woolly brickellbush. It is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States, where it grows in California, Nevada, and Arizona. This species is a shrub that forms a spherical clump on sandy desert floors, reaching between 40 centimeters and 1 meter in height. Its leaves are gray-green to white, covered in a thin layer of woolly fibers, oval-shaped, and grow up to 3 centimeters long. Inflorescences bear solitary flower heads, each approximately 2.4 centimeters long, lined with woolly phyllaries that range in color from gray-green to grayish purple. Each flower head contains around 60 disc florets that can be red, yellowish, or grayish. The fruit produced is a hairy cylindrical achene about one centimeter long, topped with a pappus made of bristles.
