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Woodland tidytips

Layia gaillardioides

Woodland tidytips
Photo: joergmlpts user name at iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0

Woodland tidytips is a native Californian annual wildflower with bright yellow daisy-like flower heads that grows best in full sun on well-drained, often serpentine, soils. It is most at home in gardens with a Mediterranean-style climate.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly until established, then let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid soggy soil.
Soil
Well-drained, lean soil; tolerates serpentine and poor soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established, but young plants are sensitive to hard freezes.
How easy
Easy
Native range
California
Climate
subtropical

About

Layia gaillardioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name woodland tidytips.

It is endemic to California, where it grows on the coastline and in the coastal mountain ranges in the northern and central parts of the state. It is often found on serpentine soils.

Other Layia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Layia gaillardioides 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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