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Whitedaisy tidytips

Layia glandulosa

Also called White Layia, Glandular Layia, White Daisy Tidy Tips, White Tidy Tips

Whitedaisy tidytips
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 4.0

Whitedaisy tidytips (Layia glandulosa) is a low annual wildflower of western North America, with white daisy-like flower heads that bloom in spring. It grows easily from seed in sunny, dry, well-drained spots, and is not typically grown as a houseplant.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly until seedlings establish, then let the soil dry out between rains or waterings.
Soil
Poor to average, sandy or gravelly, well-drained soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates cool spring weather and some light frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. & WC. U.S.A. to Mexico (Baja California Norte)

About

Layia glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names whitedaisy tidytips and white layia. It is native to western North America south from central Washington (state) to Baja California and east to Utah and Arizona, where it is common in a number of habitat types.

Other Layia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Layia glandulosa 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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