[Illustration: Brickellia coulteri
Brickellia californica]
Common Names: BRICKELLBUSH, DESERT BRICKELLIA, (_PACHABA_)
Arizona desert: (_Brickellia coulteri_). Yellow-white. September.
California desert: (_Brickellia desertorum_). Pale yellow. Midsummer.
Texas-New Mexico deserts: (_Brickellia californica_). Yellow-white.
July-October.
Sunflower family. Size: Small, much-branched perennial shrub, up to 3
feet in height.
Intricately branched and brittle-stemmed, this shrub with blossom heads
holding from 8 to 18 yellowish flowers is common throughout the
Southwest from western Texas and Colorado to Nevada, Sonora and Lower
California.
It grows among rocks and in rocky locations throughout much of the
desert country from 3,000 up to 7,000 feet.