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coastal tidy tips, tidy-tips

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

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
from FNA
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
Sibling taxa
L. carnosa, L. chrysanthemoides, L. discoidea, L. fremontii, L. gaillardioides, L. glandulosa, L. heterotricha, L. hieracioides, L. jonesii, L. leucopappa, L. munzii, L. pentachaeta, L. septentrionalis
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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