Encelia californicaNutt.

California brittlebush

WFO wfo-0000035355 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Encelia californica, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. a Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-10 / obs. 187416180
Encelia californica, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186329103
Encelia californica, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. c Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187905482
Encelia californica, photographed by Heather Dawnstar Sabin
fig. d Heather Dawnstar Sabin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187147808
Encelia californica, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. e Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185780546
Encelia californica, photographed by velodrome
fig. f velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188443326
Encelia californica, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. g Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186127981
Encelia californica, photographed by Kristen Francis
fig. h Kristen Francis, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184476440

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 2,077 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,077 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 2 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.

  • Encelia californica var. californica
  • Encelia conspersa A.Gray

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.