Layia platyglossa |
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coastal tidy tips, tidy-tips |
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Habit | Plants 3–70 cm (self-incompatible); glandular, not strongly scented. |
Stems | usually not purple-streaked. |
Leaf | blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, 4–100(–120) mm, margins (basal leaves) toothed to pinnatifid. |
Involucres | hemispheric, 4–18 × 4–15+ mm. |
Ray florets | 5–18; laminae yellow or proximally yellow and distally white, 3–21 mm. |
Disc florets | 6–120+; corollas 3.5–6 mm; anthers ± dark purple (in southwest of range, sometimes yellow or brownish). |
Phyllaries | 5–18, apices often longer (sometimes shorter) than folded bases. |
Ray cypselae | glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
Paleae | in 1 series between ray and disc florets. |
Disc | pappi 0 or of 14–32 white to tawny, ± equal bristles or setiform scales 2–5 mm, each ± scabrous, usually not plumose and not adaxially woolly (in southwest of range, often proximally plumose and adaxially woolly). |
2n | = 14. |
Layia platyglossa |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Jul. |
Habitat | Open, often grassy slopes or flats, disturbed sites, often on sandy or clayey soil, sometimes serpentine |
Elevation | 0–2000 m (0–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Layia platyglossa occurs from the North Coast Ranges through central-western and southwestern California and west to the immediate coast and east into the central Great Valley. A specimen reported by S. L. Welsh et al. (1993) from dunes in Utah (Harrison 2545, BRY) may be mislabeled. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 265. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Madiinae > Layia |
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Synonyms | Callichroa platyglossa, L. platyglossa subsp. campestris, L. ziegleri |
Name authority | (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 103. (1849) |
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