Madia sativa
Madia anomala
Chile tarplant, Chile tarweed, Chilean tarplant, Chilean tarweed, coast tarweed, coastal tarweed
plumpseed madia, tarweed
hirsute and glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish, purple, or black, lateral branches rarely surpassing main stems.
hirsute, distally glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish, purple, or black, lateral branches rarely surpassing main stems.
blades broadly lanceolate to linear-oblong or linear, 2–18 cm × 3–18(–29) mm.
blades linear, 2–10 cm × 2–7 mm.
ovoid to urceolate, 6–16 mm.
globose or depressed-globose, 6–10 mm.
(5–)8–13;
corollas greenish yellow or sometimes purplish red abaxially or throughout, laminae 1.5–4 mm.
3–8;
corollas greenish yellow, laminae 3–4.5 mm.
11–14, bisexual, fertile;
corollas 2–5 mm, pubescent;
anthers ± dark purple.
3–8, bisexual, fertile;
corollas 3.5–4 mm, pubescent;
anthers ± dark purple.
hirsute and glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish, purple, or black, apices erect or ± reflexed, flat.
hirsute and glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish, purple, or black, apices erect or ± reflexed, flat.
in usually crowded, paniculiform, racemiform, or spiciform arrays.
in open, racemiform or paniculiform arrays.
similar.
similar.
black or brown, sometimes mottled, dull, compressed, beakless.
black or purple, glossy, ± terete, beakless.
mostly persistent, connate 1/2+ their lengths.
mostly persistent, connate 1/4–1/2+ their lengths.
= 32.
= 32.
Madia sativa
Madia anomala
In North America, Madia sativa occurs on the Pacific Coast from California to British Columbia, sporadically in coastal ranges, and rarely eastward. Reports of M. sativa from Ontario and Quebec and from Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wisconsin are putative waifs or misidentified M. glomerata. Molecular data and greenhouse studies have indicated that plants referable to M. capitata and M. sativa in California are not distinct (B. G. Baldwin, unpubl.). Sampled populations of M. sativa (including M. capitata) from California are somewhat divergent in DNA sequences from sampled Chilean populations, in apparent conflict with earlier suggestions that M. sativa was recently introduced to North America from South America by Europeans (Baldwin, unpubl.). Madia sativa has been cultivated for seed-oil in South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia Minor (E. Zardini 1992).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Madia anomala occurs locally in the North Coast Ranges, San Francisco Bay area, and Sutter Buttes (southern Sacramento Valley), sometimes with the morphologically similar M. gracilis.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
- Local floras:
BC, 
CA, 
OR, 
WA - Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos,
Flora NW, 
PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. 
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USDA Plants Database- LBJ Wildflower Center
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