Layia platyglossa

Tidy-tips, Tidy-Tips

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Tidy-tips is a California native annual found in southern Northern Coast, southern Northern Coast Ranges, Great Valley, Central Western, Southwestern California, and western edge of the Mojave Desert in many habitats at elevations below 2,000 meters. Flowering from February to July, this plant produces bright yellow ray flowers with white tips, surrounded by yellow disk flowers, creating distinctive daisy-like blooms 4 to 15 millimeters wide. Growing 3 to 70 centimeters tall with decumbent to erect stems that are glandular and not strongly scented, it has a variable growth habit adapted to diverse landscapes. Its leaves are linear to lanceolate, 4 to 100 millimeters long, with proximal leaves often partially lobed towards the midvein. The ray fruits are glabrous or sparsely hairy, with disk flowers featuring white to brown pappus bristles 1 to 6 millimeters long.

Habitat: Common. Many habitats

Bloom period: Feb-Jul

Elevation: < 2000 m

Bioregions: s NCo, s NCoRI, GV, CW, SW, w edge DMoj

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