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Ramm's madia

Jensia rammii

Ramm's madia
Photo: Steve Matson https://www.inaturalist.org/people/matsonburger, CC BY 4.0

Ramm's madia is a small yellow-flowered annual daisy from the northern Sierra Nevada foothills of California. It is grown mainly by native plant enthusiasts and needs full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly during establishment, then let it rely on winter and spring rain; avoid soggy soil.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly native soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to warm Mediterranean conditions; frost-hardy as a seedling.
How easy
Easy
Native range
California

About

Jensia rammii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Ramm's madia. It is endemic to California, where it is limited to the northern slopes of the Sierra Nevada and its foothills.

Jensia rammii is an annual herb with a hairy, glandular, branching stem up to 60 centimeters (2 feet) tall. The inflorescence produces flower heads on long peduncles. The head has 5-12 yellow ray florets up to a centimeter (0.4 inches) long with lobed tips. The 16–65 yellow disc florets at the center have black anthers. The fruit is an achene a few millimeters long.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jensia rammii 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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