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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Encelia farinosa''
| image = Encelia farinosa form.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
| genus = ''[[Encelia]]''
| species = '''''E. farinosa'''''
| binomial = ''Encelia farinosa''
| binomial_authority = [[John Torrey|Torr.]] & [[Asa Gray|A.Gray]]
}}

'''''Encelia farinosa''''', or '''Brittlebush''', is a common [[desert]] [[shrub]] of northwestern [[Mexico]] and southwestern [[United States]]. Its common name comes from the brittleness of its [[Plant stem|stems]]. 

It is also called ''incienso'' because its dried stems were burned by early [[Spanish missions in California|Spanish settlers]] as [[incense]].