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Lasthenia maritima
Also called Hairy Goldfields, Maritime Goldfields
Seaside goldfields is a small annual daisy-family herb with gold flower heads, native to rocky Pacific coastal islands from British Columbia to California. It is rarely grown in gardens, and it does best in open, sunny, windswept, well-drained rocky or sandy conditions.
Lasthenia maritima is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names maritime goldfields and seaside goldfields.
It is native to the coastline of western North America, where it is found almost exclusively on small rocky, coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean between Vancouver Island in British Columbia to the Farallon Islands off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
Burke's baeria · California goldfields · Alkalisink goldfields · Contra Costa goldfields · Royal goldfields · Ferris' goldfields · Fremont's goldfields · Smooth goldfields · Yellowray goldfields · Needle goldfields · Ranca · Smallray goldfields
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lasthenia maritima 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.
