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Jones' tidytips

Layia jonesii

Also called Jones' Layia

Jones' tidytips
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon - https://www.inaturalist.org/people/chloe_and_trevor, CC BY 4.0

Jones' tidytips is a small California annual daisy found only on clay and serpentine soils in coastal San Luis Obispo County. It is a wildflower rather than a common garden plant, so it grows best in sunny, well-drained spots that mimic its native soils.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly until established, then allow soil to dry between waterings; it is adapted to a dry-summer climate.
Soil
Well-drained clay or serpentine-type soil, or a lean mineral mix.
Temperature
Mild coastal conditions, roughly 10–22 °C; tolerates light frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
California

About

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

It is endemic to California, where it is known only from coastal San Luis Obispo County. It grows on clay and serpentine soils.

Other Layia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Layia jonesii 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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