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Sierra tidytips

Layia pentachaeta

Sierra tidytips
Photo: Jesse Rorabaugh, CC0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
California

About

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

Where it grows

The wildflower is endemic to California, where it grows in a number of habitats in the central part of the state from the Sierra Nevada (foothills and High Sierra) to the Tehachapi Mountains, the San Joaquin Valley, and the central Inner California Coast Ranges.

Other Layia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Layia pentachaeta 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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