A common roadside desert flower, Brittlebush is named for its stems which snap easily. Rocky slopes and gravelly plains. The flowers are in branched clusters above the mound-shaped foliage. The individual flower heads are 2 inches (5 cm) wide and have yellow, blunt-toothed rays and golden orange to brown disk flowers. The leaves are alternate, woolly, grayish in color, and oval to triangle-shaped.

Saguaro National Park East
Location: Common throughout the Tucson area.
3/21/15

Notes: Sabino Mountain Community 10/25/15.
Ventana Canyon Trail after abundant Spring rains 3/26/17.

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