showy golden madia

Madia radiata

Member of tarweeds (genus Madia)
tarweeds and allies (tribe Madieae)
sunflower family (family Asteraceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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CalPhotos

• stem 10–90 cm, glandular-hairy
• leaf 2–10 cm, 4–15 mm wide, lanceolate to linear
• heads in open, ± flat-topped clusters
• involucre 4–7 mm, soft-hairy to bristly, hairs hooked at tip, and glandular-hairy
• phyllary tips ± erect or reflexed, flat
• 18–65 disk flowers, anthers yellow to ± brown
• 8–16 ray flowers, 6–19 mm, relatively wide petals, golden yellow
• La Honda Creek

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Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora