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Tidy Tips

ayia platyglossa, commonly called Tidy tips, is an annual wildflower of the Asteraceae Family, native to western North America.

Tidy tips is found throughout low-elevation dry habitats in California, and the state in the Mojave Desert into Arizona and Utah. It is common in grassy places at low elevations in grassy slopes and openings in coastal sage scrub, grasslands and chaparral, coastal plains, and the High Desert. It is a member of Spring wildflower 'displays,' and grows during the months of March to June.

Layia platyglossa is an annual, glandular, daisy like plant with narrow, rough hairy leaves. The height of the entire plant is less than 1 foot (0.30 m), roughly around 4–12 inches (10–30 cm) wide. The roots are usually taproots, sometimes fibrous.

The leaves at the upper part of the stem are short and have a pilous texture. The leaves at the basal part of the stem can be dentate to pinnate shaped with rotund short lobes. The lower leaves are generally lobed and the upper leaves are entire. Leaves usually alternate or opposite, and the blades are usually simple, rarely compound.

The flower heads are composed of five to eighteen yellow ray flowers with white tips and many central yellow disk flowers. Its outer ray flowers are bright golden yellow with distinct, sharp-margined white tips. The bracts tips are rounded and involucre 6–12 mm high. The corolla is 4–6 mm long. The ray flowers are 3-3.8 mm long and the disk flowers are 2.8–5 mm long. The ligules are 6–15 mm long and 5–10 mm wide. The florets are bisexual, pistillate, functionally staminate or neuter. The sepals are highly modified.

Pollination is done by insects. The fruits are usually dry with thick, tough pericarps, sometimes rostrate and/or winged. Dispersion is done by the help from pappi (dispersal of fruit by wind). Seeds are one per fruit, embryos straight.


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      • Drummond Phlox
      • Plains Coreopsis
      • Farewell-To-Spring
      • Scarlet Flax
      • Globegilia
      • Larkspur Rocket
      • California Poppy
      • Flanders Poppy
      • Shirley Poppy
      • Rocky Mountain Bee Balm
      • Baby Snapdragon
      • Sunflower
      • Tidy Tips
      • Wallflower
      • Arrowleaf Balsamroot
      • Pacific Aster
      • Black-eyed Susan
      • Blanket Flower
      • Blue Flax
      • Colorado Columbine
      • Aspen Daisy
      • Purple Coneflower
      • Prairie Coneflower
      • Lanceleaf Coreopsis
      • Dame's Rocket
      • Fire Flower
      • Wild Geranium
      • Desert Globemallow
      • Golden Banner
      • Iceland Poppy
      • Rocky Mountain Iris
      • Maiden Pinks
      • Red Mexican Hat
      • Mountain Lupine
      • Large Flowered Penstemon
      • Rocky Mountain Penstemon
      • Wasatch Penstemon
      • White Evening Primrose
      • Showy Goldeneye
      • Northern Sweetvetch
      • White Yarrow
    • Gardening Tips for High Altitude Planting >
      • Roses
      • Vines
      • Tree & Plant Reference Guide >
        • Evergreens >
          • Firs
          • Pines
          • Spruce
        • Deciduous >
          • Aspen
          • Ash
          • Birch
          • Chokecherry
          • Cottonwood
          • Crabapple
          • Fruit Trees
        • Fruits and Berries
        • Shrubs
      • Vegetable Planting Schedule
    • Gardening Blog
    • Seasonal >
      • Fall >
        • Fall Bulbs for Spring Blossoms
      • Christmas
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