Biology:Layia hieracioides

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Short description: Species of plant

Layia hieracioides
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Layia
Species:
L. hieracioides
Binomial name
Layia hieracioides
(DC.) Hook. &Arn.

Layia hieracioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae 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 Transverse Ranges behind Los Angeles.

Description

Layia hieracioides is an annual herb producing a thick, glandular, 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 glandular 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.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6505570 entry