Madia radiata Kellogg

Golden madia (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Madia

Characteristics

Plants 10–90 cm; self-incompatible (heads showy). Stems glandular-pubescent, glands yel-lowish or purple, lateral branches often surpassing main stems. Leaf blades lanceolate to linear, 2–10 cm × 4–15 mm. Heads in open, ± corymbiform arrays. Involucres depressed-globose, 4–7 mm. Phyllaries pilose to hispid (hairs uncinate) and glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish or purple, apices ± erect or reflexed, flat. Paleae readily falling, distinct. Ray florets 8–16; corollas golden yellow, laminae 6–19 mm. Disc florets 18–65, bisexual, fertile; corollas 3.5–5.5 mm, pubescent; anthers yellow to brownish. Ray cypselae black, purple, or mottled, dull or glossy, compressed (strongly arcuate), beaked (beaks adaxially offset, curved). Disc cypselae similar, not beaked. 2n = 16.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.9
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 3-4
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Distribution

Madia radiata world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:149189-2
WFO ID wfo-0000123117
COL ID 72RP8
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Synonyms

Anisocarpus radiatus Madia radiata