Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California east to the Rocky Mountains.
Habitat: Dry, often rocky places from lowland sagebrush desert to middle elevations in the mountains.
Flowers: May-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps
Glandular-puberulent, perennial herb or sub-shrub, usually with many stems from near the base, 1-6 dm. tall.
Leaves usually entire and sessile, oblong to lance-linear, 1-4 cm. long and up to 15 mm. wide.
Heads discoid, cylindric, terminating the branches, usually several per stem; involucre 10-20 mm. high, the bracts acute, striate, imbricate in several series; corollas creamy white, 10-50 in each head; pappus of barbellate bristles.
Achene 10-ribbed.
Publication: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 288. 1840.
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var. oblongifolia – narrowleaf brickellia
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to Oregon, east to Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Brickellia oblongifolia in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Brickellia oblongifolia checklist entry
OregonFlora: Brickellia oblongifolia information
E-Flora BC: Brickellia oblongifolia atlas page
CalPhotos: Brickellia oblongifolia photos
