Madia anomala

Plump seeded madia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Plump seeded madia is a California native annual found in northern coastal regions, Sutter Buttes, coastal central California, and San Francisco Bay Area in woodland or chaparral openings at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces green-yellow ray flowers with 3 to 8 rays, accompanied by disk flowers with dark purple anthers. Growing 20 to 55 centimeters tall with coarse and glandular-hairy stems featuring yellow, purple, or black glands, it develops lateral branches rarely exceeding the main stem. Its leaves are slender linear blades 2 to 10 centimeters long and 2 to 7 millimeters wide, arranged with a sparse, open structure. The fruit is distinctively round in cross-section, appearing black or purple and beakless.

Habitat: Openings in woodland or chaparral

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NCoRO, NCoRI, ScV (Sutter Buttes), CCo (Marin Co.), SnFrB.

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