Layia platyglossa (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) A.Gray

Plants 3–70 cm (self-incom-patible); glandular, not strongly scented. Stems usually not purple-streaked. Leaf blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, 4–100(–120) mm, margins (basal leaves) toothed to pinnatifid. Involucres hemispheric, 4–18 × 4–15+ mm. Phyllaries 5–18, apices often longer (sometimes shorter) than folded bases. Paleae in 1 series between ray and disc florets. Ray florets 5–18; laminae yellow or proximally yellow and distally white, 3–21 mm. Disc florets 6–120+; corollas 3.5–6 mm; anthers ± dark purple (in southwest of range, sometimes yellow or brownish). Ray cypselae glabrous or sparsely hairy. Disc pappi 0 or of 14–32 white to tawny, ± equal bristles or setiform scales 2–5 mm, each ± scabrous, usually not plumose and not adaxially woolly (in southwest of range, often proximally plumose and adaxially woolly). 2n = 14.

Open, often grassy slopes or flats, disturbed sites, often on sandy or clayey soil, sometimes serpentine from sea level to 2000 metres.

The seeds are eaten in pinole. They are also ground into flour and used as a porridge.

Can be grown by seedlings.