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Maritime
Lasthenia maritima
  
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About Maritime (Lasthenia maritima) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Lasthenia maritima is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names maritime goldfields and seaside goldfieds. It is native to the coastline of western North America, where it is found almost exclusively on small rocky, coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean between Vancouver Island in British Columbia to the Farallon Islands off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. This species probably evolved from Lasthenia minor, and it is adapted to the unique conditions on these maritime islands: high winds, saline sea spray, and thin soils that are often disturbed by the activities of the seabirds that roost and nest on these rocks and made acidic and nitrogen-rich from their droppings. Though limited in distribution, this is one of the more common plants on the Farallon Islands of California, where it is an important part of the ecology of seabirds and where it is locally known as Farallon weed. Lasthenia maritima is an annual herb with short, decumbent to prostrate stems lined with fleshy lobed or unlobed leaves up to 9 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears flower heads lined with hairy phyllaries and ringed with 7 to 12 gold ray florets each about 3 millimeters long. The fruit is a small, hairy achene often topped with a brownish pappus.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Flower Color
Flower Color
Yellow

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Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 13.1" - 56.3", Summer Precipitation: 0.23" - 1.51", Coldest Month: 43.7" - 51.5", Hottest Month: 56.5" - 76.5", Humidity: 0.23" - 23.52", Elevation: 14" - 749"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Maritime Goldfields, Seaside Goldfieds, Seaside Goldfields


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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