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Woodland madia

Anisocarpus madioides

Also called Woodland Tarweed

Woodland madia
Photo: oliveoligarchy, CC BY 2.0

Woodland madia is a North American perennial wildflower of forest and woodland edges, growing up to about 75 cm tall with yellow daisy-like flower heads. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care is mostly about giving it woodland-like conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, moist woodland soil rich in organic matter.
Temperature
10-25 °C; hardy in cool temperate climates, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Canada to W. U.S.A.

About

Anisocarpus madioides (syn. Madia madioides) is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name woodland madia or woodland tarweed.

Where it grows

Anisocarpus madioides is native to the west coast of North America on Vancouver Island in the Canadian Province of British Columbia and the US States of Washington, Oregon, and California. It is a plant of forest and woodland habitat. Most of the populations occur in the Cascades and in the Coast Ranges from Vancouver Island to San Luis Obispo County, but there are additional collections from the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada and the Agua Tibia Mountains of San Diego County.

Other Anisocarpus plants

Leafy raillardiopsis · Tarweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anisocarpus madioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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