Le Jardin de Mère Nature dans une Petite Planète - Pima County

slopes; alluvial fans; gravelly and sandy bajadas; rocky outcrops; sand dunes; plains; gravelly and sandy
flats; basins; rocky and sandy valley floors; along rocky and sandy roadsides; within arroyos; clayey
bottoms of arroyos; draws; gullies; within gravelly and sandy washes; swales; banks of ravines; terraces;
floodplains; lowlands, and disturbed areas growing in dry rocky desert pavement; bouldery, rocky, rockygravelly,
shaley, gravelly and sandy ground; sandy loam ground; silty clay and clay ground, and sandy
silty ground, occurring from 1,800 to 8,800 feet, in elevation in the woodland, grassland and desertscrub
ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be an attractive component of a restored native habitat.
Bahia absinthifolia is native to southwest-central and southern North America. *5, 6, 16, 28 (color
photograph), 43 (111309), 46 (Page 925), 63 (111309 - color presentation), 77 (color photograph #16), 85
(111309 - color presentation), 115 (color presentation)*
Brickellia baccharidea A. Gray: Resinleaf Brickellbush
COMMON NAMES: Baccharis-leaf Brickellia, Baccharisleaf Brickellbush, Brickell-bush,
Brickellbush, Resinleaf Brickellbush. DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial subshrub or shrub (to 3 feet
in height); flowering generally takes place between September and November. HABITAT: Within the
range of this species it has been reported from crevices in boulders and rocky slopes growing in dry
bouldery and rocky ground, occurring from 500 to 5,500 feet in elevation in the grassland and desertscrub
ecological formations. NOTE: Brickellia baccharidea is native to southwest-central and southern North
America. *5, 6, 13, 15, 43 (063010), 46 (Page 849), 48 (genus), 58, 63 (063010), 77, 85 (063010 - color
presentation of dried material, unable to access to species information), 138*
Brickellia coulteri A. Gray: Coulter’s Brickellbush
SYNONYMY: Brickellia coulteri A. Gray var. coulteri. COMMON NAMES: Brickellbush,
Coulter’s Brickellbush. DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial subshrub or shrub (1 to 5 feet in height);
the florets (disc flowers only) may be cream, cream-maroon-purple, cream-purple, cream-white, creamyellow,
green, greenish-yellow, purplish, purplish-brown, white, yellow or yellow-green; flowering
generally takes place between late January and mid-November (additional records: two for early
December and two for mid-December). HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported
from bouldery mountains; rocky and gravelly-sandy mountainsides; cliff faces; rocky and rocky-sandy
canyons; rocky canyon bottoms; rocky talus slopes; bases of cliffs; crevices in rocks; rock ledges; rocky
ridges; clearings in woodlands; foothills; rocky hills; rocky hillsides; rocky slopes; rocky outcrops;
amongst boulders and rocks; flats; basins; valley floors; arroyos; rocky bottoms of arroyos; rocky draws;
rocky walls of ravines; springs; along streams; along bouldery and bouldery-rocky streambeds; along
rivers; along and in rocky, rocky-gravelly, gravelly, gravelly-loamy and sandy washes; rocky and pebbly
drainages; bouldery and rocky drainage ways; around waterholes; along sandy and silty-loamy banks of
washes and drainages; edges of washes; floodplains, and rocky and gravelly-sandy riparian areas growing
in dry bouldery, rocky, rocky-gravelly, rocky-sandy, gravelly, gravelly-sandy, pebbly and sandy ground;
gravelly loam, sandy loam, silty loam and loam ground, and rocky clay ground, occurring from sea level
to 4,500 feet in elevation in the woodland, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological formations.
NOTES: This plant may be an attractive component of a restored native habitat. The flowers are reported
to be fragrant. Brickellia coulteri is native to southwest-central and southern North America. *5, 6, 13,
15, 16, 28 (color picture), 43 (111409), 46 (Page 849), 48 (genus), 58, 63 (111409), 77, 85 (111409 - color
presentation), 115 (color presentation), 138*
Brickellia coulteri var. coulteri (see Brickellia coulteri)
Chaenactis carphoclinia A. Gray (var. carphoclinia is the variety reported as occurring in Arizona):
Pebble Pincushion
SYNONYMY: (for C.c. var. carphoclinia: Chaenactis carphoclinia A. Gray var. attenuata (A.
Gray) M.E. Jones). COMMON NAMES: Broadleaved Chaenactis, False Yarrow, Pebble False-yarrow,
Pebble Pincushion, Pincushion Flower. DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial annual forb/herb (2 to below 28