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Madia elegans
Also called Elegant Tarweed, Autumn Showy Tarweed, Showy Tarweed, Showy Tar Weed
Common madia is a fast-growing annual daisy-family wildflower from western North America with bright yellow, strongly scented flower heads. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and sows itself readily.
Madia elegans is an annual herbaceous plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is generally known as the common madia, but there are several subspecies known by various common names.
The plant is native to western North America from south-central Washington state to northern Baja California. It may be found in dry open forest, disturbed areas and grasslands from low to high elevations.
The achenes were historically used as food by Native Americans, including the Pomo and Miwok, who baked them or ground them into flour.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Madia elegans 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.
