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Blennosperma nanum
Also called Golden Carpet, Glue Seed
Common stickyseed is a small annual daisy from California, known for its pale yellow flower heads and sticky, gluey seeds. It is a wildflower of seasonal wet areas, so grow it in cool, moist winters and dry springs or in a rock garden or meadow setting.
Blennosperma nanum is an annual plant in the daisy family native to California. Common names include glue-seed, common stickyseed, and yellow carpet.
The species is distributed throughout the lower elevations in California from Shasta County to San Diego County, but nowhere is it particularly abundant. It is a resident of vernal pool floral communities. Glue-seed is often one of the first flowers to bloom as winter turns to spring.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Blennosperma nanum 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.
