Adults feed on flowers and leaves of brittlebush. The common name "brittlebush" comes from the brittleness of its stems. Representative desert plants include the barrel cactus, brittlebush, chain fruit cholla, creosote. Females of "A. flaviventris" collect resin from brittlebush, "Encelia farinosa" Gray ex Torr. Brittlebush has a long history of uses by indigenous and pioneer peoples. Brittlebush grows up to tall, with fragrant leaves long, ovate to deltoid, and silvery tomentose.