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Yellowflower tarweed

Holocarpha virgata

Also called Pit Gland Tarweed

Yellowflower tarweed
Photo: Ruff tuff cream puff, CC0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
California to Mexico (Baja California Norte)

About

Holocarpha virgata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names yellowflower tarweed, pitgland tarweed, and narrow tarplant.

Where it grows

Holocarpha virgata is endemic to California, where it is most common in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley of the Central Valley, and adjacent foothills of the Inner Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada (U.S.). There are additional populations in foothills of the Peninsular Ranges in San Diego County, western Riverside County, and Orange County.

Other Holocarpha plants

Heermann's tarweed · Santa Cruz tarplant · San Joaquin tarweed · Tarweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Holocarpha virgata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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