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Tall Layia
( Layia hieracioides )
Layia hieracioides
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About Tall Layia (Layia hieracioides)
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Layia hieracioides
is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name tall tidytips, or tall layia. It is endemic to California, where it is known from around the San Francisco Bay Area to the mountain ranges near Los Angeles. It is an annual herb producing a thick, hairy, 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 hairy 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.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Annual herb
Size
4 ft tall
Flower Color
Yellow
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 1
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Small Heliothodes Moth
Heliothodes diminutivus
Heliothodes diminutivus
Landscaping Information
Sun
Full Sun
Common uses
Butterfly Gardens, Bee Gardens
Natural Setting
Site Type
Open or disturbed places with light soils
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 8.0" - 49.7", Summer Precipitation: 0.17" - 0.65", Coldest Month: 40.8" - 53.4", Hottest Month: 61.7" - 78.0", Humidity: 0.58" - 25.61", Elevation: 8" - 3773"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Tall Tidytips
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Layia hieracioides
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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