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Deinandra increscens
Also called Grassland Moonshine
Grassland tarweed is a yellow-flowered annual in the daisy family, native to coastal and inland grasslands of California. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs full sun and well-drained soil to thrive.
Deinandra increscens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name grassland tarweed. It is endemic to California, where it has been found primarily in Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties (including Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands). A few isolated populations have been reported from Kern and Merced Counties, but these are from urban areas (Cities of Merced and Bakersfield) and probably represent cultivated specimens.
Deinandra increscens is an annual up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. It has numerous flower heads, often tightly clumped together, each with yellow ray florets and disc florets with yellow corollas but red or purple anthers.
Red Rock tarweed · Livermore tarweed · Catalina tarweed · Otay tarweed · Coastal tarweed · Clustered moonshine-daisy · Greene's Tarweed · Hall's tarweed · Kellogg's Tarweed · Three Ray Tarweed · Deinandra martirensis · Santa Susana tarweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Deinandra increscens 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.
