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Mountain tarweed

Madia glomerata

Also called Cluster Tarweed, Clustered Tarweed, Stinking Tarweed, Cluster Tar Weed

Mountain tarweed
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
Subarctic America to U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Madia glomerata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name mountain tarweed.

Where it grows

Madia glomerata is the most widely distributed Madia, its native range covering much of western and northern North America from Alaska to the Southwestern United States, most of southern Canada and into the Great Lakes region. It grows in sagebrush plains and mountains.

Other Madia plants

Plumpseeded madia · Common madia · Small tarweed · Grassy tarweed · Golden madia · Coast tarweed · Tarweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Madia glomerata 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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