Layia hieracioides

Layia hieracioides is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name tall tidytips, or tall layia.

Layia hieracioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Genus:
Layia
Species:
L. hieracioides
Binomial name
Layia hieracioides
(DC.) Hook. &Arn.

It is endemic to California, where it is known from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the Transverse Ranges behind Los Angeles.

Description

Layia hieracioides is an annual herb producing a thick, glandular, strongly scented stem to a maximum height near 1.3 meters, but often remains shorter. The thin leaves are linear to lance-shaped, with the lower ones lobed or toothed and up to nearly 15 centimeters in maximum length. The flower head has a rounded to urn-shaped base of green phyllaries covered in dark glandular hairs. The head contains short yellow ray florets only a few millimeters long around a center of yellow disc florets with purple anthers. The fruit is an achene; fruits on the disc florets have a pappus of bristles.

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