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Layia glandulosa

white layia, white daisy tidytips
Habit Branching annual, 0.5-4 dm. tall, with spreading hairs and stalked glands, especially above.
Leaves

Leaves 1-6 cm. long, narrow, the lower pinnatifid to toothed, the upper entire, chiefly alternate.
Flowers

Heads terminating the branches;

involucre 6-9 mm. high, glandular and hairy, herbaceous, flattened on the back below, with thin margins folded around the achene;

rays 4-15 mm. long, broad, white and 3-toothed, pistillate and fertile;

disk flowers yellow, perfect and fertile;

receptacle broad and flat, with a series of thin, chaffy bracts between the ray and disk flowers;

ray flowers without pappus, disk flowers with about 10 white pappus bristles on the achene.

Layia glandulosa
Flowering time April-June
Habitat Dry, open areas from sagebrush desert to low elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to Idaho, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
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