Encelia actoni
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheae |
| Genus: | Encelia |
| Species: | E. actoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Encelia actoni Elmer |
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Encelia actoni is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Acton brittlebush, or Acton encelia. It was named for Acton, California, and is sometimes misspelled E. actonii.[1] It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it grows in several types of open habitat. This is a multibranched shrub reaching 1.5 meters in height. The branches are lined with oval to roughly triangular leaves a few centimeters long, gray-green and woolly in texture. The inflorescence is a solitary daisylike flower head on a tall, erect peduncle. The head has a center of many yellow disc florets surrounded by up to 25 yellow ray florets. The fruit is an achene about half a centimeter long usually lacking a pappus.
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