Layia chrysanthemoides

Smooth tidy tips

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Smooth tidy tips is a California native annual found in northern coastal, Coast Range, and Central Valley bioregions in grassy or open heavy soils at elevations below 800 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white ray flowers with yellow bases and yellow to light yellow disk flowers in heads 4 to 14 millimeters wide. Growing 4 to 53 centimeters tall with glandless stems, it spreads in delicate, upright clusters. Its leaves are linear to lanceolate, often scabrous-ciliate, with proximal leaves frequently lobed nearly to the midvein. The ray fruits are glabrous, with disk flowers featuring unequal white to brown awns 1 to 4 millimeters long.

Habitat: Grassy or open heavy soil, sometimes +- alkaline

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: < 800 m

Bioregions: NCo, e&amps edge NCoRO, NCoRI, GV, CW

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