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Smooth tidytips

Layia chrysanthemoides

Also called Smooth Layia

Smooth tidytips
Photo: jkirkhart35, CC BY 2.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
California
Climate
subtropical

About

Layia chrysanthemoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name smooth tidytips, or smooth layia.

It is endemic to California, where it lives in several types of habitat along the coast and in inland hills and valleys, and the Central Valley.

Other Layia plants

Beach tidytips · Rayless tidytips · Tidy Tips · Fremont's tidytips · Woodland tidytips · Whitedaisy tidytips · Paleyellow tidytips · Tall tidytips · Jones' tidytips · Comanche Point tidytips · Munz's tidytips · Sierra tidytips

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Layia chrysanthemoides 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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