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Madia exigua
Small tarweed is a sticky, aromatic annual wildflower of western North America that grows in dry, open habitats outside the deserts. It is grown only as a native wildflower, and it thrives with full sun and very little water.
Madia exigua is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names small tarweed and threadstem madia.
Madia exigua is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it grows in many types of dry habitat outside the deserts.
Plumpseeded madia · Common madia · Mountain tarweed · Grassy tarweed · Golden madia · Coast tarweed · Tarweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Madia exigua 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.
