Encelia farinosa vs Encelia californica

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CBernard Perris, CA(Zone 9a) Sep 26, 2008

I have searched Plant Files and Google and I just can't tell which one is which. I stopped by the road side for some seeds of the beautiful e. farinosa (Brittlebush) which I think is actually e. californica (Bush Sunflower). A buddy of mine has e. farinosa on his place. He tells me that they only bloom in Spring so the seeds had to be e. californica. If anyone is familiar with the difference, please let me know.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Chuck

This message was edited Sep 26, 2008 5:17 PM

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Sep 27, 2008

Have you tried Calflora? They've got pics of both and also links to the Jepson manual entries for both which will go through the identifying characteristics. (watch out on the pics though--once that are marked as "not reviewed" are sometimes not accurately ID'd) http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/specieslist.cgi?rel-namesoup=contains&where-namesoup=Encelia&where-prettyreglist=any&rel-upper_elev_ft=gt&where-upper_elev_ft=&rel-lower_elev_ft=lt&where-lower_elev_ft=&where-caltranslifeform2=any&where-native=any&rel-calipc=gte&rel-rarity=invalue&where-rarity=any&where-pretty_plantcomm=any&orderby=taxon I think that while E. farinosa primarily blooms in spring, it can sometimes have flowers other times of year as well so I'd probably look at the characteristics of the plant to be sure what you have.

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