Brickellia californicaA.Gray

California Brickellbush

WFO wfo-0000059044 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Brickellia californica, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. a Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194333369
Brickellia californica, photographed by Diego Blanco
fig. b Diego Blanco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173275133
Brickellia californica, photographed by Diego Blanco
fig. c Diego Blanco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174664765
Brickellia californica, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. d Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189486306
Brickellia californica, photographed by Diego Blanco
fig. e Diego Blanco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174664830
Brickellia californica, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. f Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188185754
Brickellia californica, photographed by velodrome
fig. g velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170159284
Brickellia californica, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. h Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201677157

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Flowering n = 260 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 260 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Brickellia albicaulis A.Nelson
  • Brickellia californica var. californica
  • Brickellia californica var. lobulata B.L.Rob.
  • Brickellia californica var. normalis B.L.Rob.
  • Brickellia californica var. reniformis B.L.Rob.
  • Brickellia reniformis A.Gray
  • Brickellia tenera A.Gray
  • Brickellia wrightii A.Gray
  • Brickellia wrightii Durand & Hilg.
  • Brickellia wrightii var. wrightii
  • Bulbostylis californica Torr. & A.Gray
  • Coleosanthus albicaulis Rydb.
  • Coleosanthus axillaris Greene
  • Coleosanthus californicus Kuntze
  • Coleosanthus californicus var. californicus
  • Coleosanthus melissaefolius Greene
  • Coleosanthus reniformis Rydb.
  • Coleosanthus tener Kuntze
  • Coleosanthus wrightii (A.Gray) Britton

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.