Lasthenia glaberrima

Smooth goldfields

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Smooth goldfields is a California native annual found in the North Coast Ranges, Sacramento Valley, northern San Joaquin Valley, Central Western California, and Modoc Plateau in vernal pools and wet areas at elevations up to 1,300 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces pale yellow flowers in small radiate heads with distinctive yellow corollas. Growing to 35 centimeters tall with sprawling or erect stems that are either simple or freely branched, it spreads across wet ground with delicate grace. Its leaves are linear, 3 to 10 centimeters long, entirely smooth and glabrous, extending from the plant's slender branches. The fruit is less than 4 millimeters long, nearly linear and slightly flattened, with a covering of fine gray hairs.

Habitat: Vernal pools, wet areas

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 1300 m

Bioregions: NCoR, ScV, n SnJV, CW, MP

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.