Lasthenia glabrata Lindl.

Annuals, to 60 cm. Stems erect, branched distally, glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves linear or subulate, 40–150 × 2–3+ mm, margins entire, faces glabrous. Involucres hemispheric, 5–10 mm. Phyllaries 10–14, ± lanceolate (distinct tips ± deltate), glabrous but for apices. Receptacles ± conic, papillate, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Ray florets 7–15; (corollas yellow) laminae oblong, 4–14 mm. Anther appendages deltate or broadly ovate. Cypselae gray, clavate or obovoid, 2–3.5 mm, margins not ciliate, faces glabrous, or hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike); pappi 0.

Heavy soils, vernal pools, low alkaline fields, hillsides etc, especially in grassland and alkaline marshes, to 1300 metres.

The parched seeds are eaten dry. They are also ground into flour to make porridge.

Can be grown by seedlings.