Brickellia grandiflora, known by the common name tasselflower brickellbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.Calflora taxon report, University of California, Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt., Large Flowered Brickelbush, large flowered brickellia, tasselflower brickellbush
Description Brickellia grandiflora is an upright perennial herb growing a few-branched stem up to tall. The hairy, glandular leaves are up to long and lance-shaped, triangular, or heart-shaped.Flora of North America, Brickellia grandiflora (Hooker) Nuttall, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 287. 1840.
The inflorescences at the tip of the slender stem holds clusters of nodding flower heads, each just over 1 cm long and lined with greenish phyllaries with curling tips. The bell-shaped flower head holds a spreading array of 20 to 40 disc florets. The fruit is a hairy cylindrical achene about long with a pappus of bristles. The bloom period is July to October.
The rust fungus Puccinia subdecora grows on Brickellia grandiflora.George Baker Cummins: Rust Fungi on Legumes and Composites in North America. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1978,
Distribution and habitat The plant is widespread across much of western North America, found in western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia); northern Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas); and the western and midwestern United States (primarily the Rocky Mountains and regions west through California, Oregon and Washington, with additional populations in New Mexico and Texas, and the central Great Plains (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma) and the Ozarks (Missouri, Arkansas).Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapTurner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 – Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272Tropicos, specimen listing for Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt
It can be found on forest banks and cliffs at relatively high elevations.
References
External links Calflora Database: Brickellia grandiflora (Large flowered brickelbush, Tasselflower brickellbush) Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Brickellia grandiflora USDA Plants Profile for Brickellia grandiflora (tasselflower brickellbush) UC CalPhotos gallery of Brickellia grandiflora