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Madia
''Madia'' is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.Molina, Giovanni Ignazio. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili 136–137, 354
text in Italian, footnotes in French and Latin
They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The species in this genus are native to western and southwestern . The name ''Madia'' is derived from native

Madia Citriodora
''Madia'' is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.Molina, Giovanni Ignazio. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili 136–137, 354
text in Italian, footnotes in French and Latin
They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The species in this genus are native to western and southwestern . The name ''Madia'' is derived from native

Madia Subspicata
''Madia'' is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.Molina, Giovanni Ignazio. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili 136–137, 354
text in Italian, footnotes in French and Latin
They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The species in this genus are native to western and southwestern . The name ''Madia'' is derived from native

Madia Chilensis
''Madia'' is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.Molina, Giovanni Ignazio. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili 136–137, 354
text in Italian, footnotes in French and Latin
They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The species in this genus are native to western and southwestern . The name ''Madia'' is derived from native



Madia Citrigracilis
''Madia'' is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.Molina, Giovanni Ignazio. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili 136–137, 354
text in Italian, footnotes in French and Latin
They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The species in this genus are native to western and southwestern . The name ''Madia'' is derived from native

Madia Elegans
''Madia elegans'' is an annual herbaceous plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is generally known as the common madia, but there are several subspecies known by various common names. Description ''Madia elegans'' is covered with short, stiff hairs. Glands are borne on stalks, especially near the flowers. The showy flower varies in appearance across subspecies and even within subspecies. The leaves grow to in length. Blooming between April and October, several strongly scented, uncrowded, bright yellow daisy-like flower heads grow at the end of a slender green stem, each typically wide. The flower has numerous thin ray flowers, which close at night, and several central disk flowers. It may be solid lemon yellow or have a maroon center. Its fruits are achenes. Taxonomy Subspecies *''Madia elegans densifolia'' - showy tarweed *''Madia elegans elegans'' - common madia *''Madia elegans vernalis'' - spring madia *''Madia elegans wheeleri'' - Wheeler's tarweed Etymology ...
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Madia Gracilis
''Madia gracilis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names grassy tarweed, slender tarweed, and gumweed madia. Description ''Madia gracilis'' is vstem is branching, and hairy and glandular in texture. The leaves are up to 10 centimeters long and covered in soft hairs and stalked resin glands. The inflorescence is an array of clusters of Head (botany), flower heads. Each head is lined with bract, phyllaries that are coated densely with stalked knobby resin glands. It bears yellow, lobe-tipped ray florets a few millimeters long and several black-anthered disc florets. The fruit is a flat, hairless achene with no pappus (botany), pappus. Distribution and habitat The annual herb is native to western North America: from British Columbia, through California to Baja California; and east to Utah and Montana. It grows in many habitat types except for arid desert areas, including California oak woodland, oak woodlands and mixed evergreen forests ...
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Madia Glomerata
''Madia glomerata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name mountain tarweed. Description ''Madia glomerata'' grows in a wide variety of habitat types, including disturbed areas such as roadsides. It is an annual herb sometimes exceeding a meter in height, its stem branched or not and covered in foliage. It is hairy to bristly in texture, studded with stalked yellow resin glands, and strongly aromatic with an unpleasant scent. The rough-haired leaves are up to 10 centimeters long. The inflorescence is generally a cluster of glandular flower heads with black-tipped yellow disc florets and sometimes one or more tiny greenish or purplish yellow ray florets. The fruit is a flat black achene with no pappus. Distribution and habitat ''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 th ...
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Madia Sativa
''Madia sativa'', known by the common names coast tarweed and Chilean tarweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae found in parts of western North and South America. Distribution ''Madia sativa'' is native to the Americas, where it is distributed in two main areas: *The west coast of North America from Alaska and British Columbia, through all the western mountain ranges of California, to Baja California. *South America in Chile and Argentina. The plant grows in many types of habitats, including disturbed areas. In western North America it is most common on coastal grasslands and nearby areas. Description ''Madia sativa'' is an annual herb varying in size from 20 centimeters tall to well over two meters, the leafy stem branching or not. It is coated densely in sticky resin glands and it has a strong scent. The hairy leaves are linear or lance-shaped, the lowest up to 18 centimeters long. The inflorescence is generally a cluster of flower heads lined with br ...
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Madia Exigua
''Madia exigua'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names small tarweed and threadstem madia. Range ''Madia exigua'' is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it grows in many types of dry habitat outside the deserts. Description ''Madia exigua'' is an aromatic annual herb growing up to half a meter (20") tall, its slender stem coated with hairs, large stalked resin glands, and sometimes bristles. The rough-haired leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6") long. The inflorescence is an array of clustered flower heads on thin, stiff peduncles. Each head has an involucre of phyllaries shaped like a top. The phyllaries are coated in knobby yellow resin glands. At the tip of the inflorescence are minute yellowish ray florets each under a millimeter long, and one or two yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, ...
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Madia Radiata
''Madia radiata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names golden madia and showy madia. It is endemic to California, where it is known mostly from the Central Coast Ranges and adjacent edges of the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley. Description ''Madia radiata'' is an annual herb growing upright 10 to 90 centimeters tall, the stem often branching and coated in bulbous resin glands. The bristly, glandular leaves are up to 10 centimeters long, often wider at the top of the plant than below. The inflorescence produces flower heads lined with hairy, gland-studded phyllaries. The head has golden yellow ray florets up to almost 2 centimeters long and a center filled with many disc florets. The fruit is a black achene a few millimeters long with no pappus. Distribution The ''Madia radiata'' current distribution and status is uncertain; most of the known occurrences were observed decades ago and have not been confirmed since, and many ...
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Madia Anomala
''Madia anomala'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name plumpseeded madia. It is endemic to northern California, where it can be found on hillsides in the San Francisco Bay Area and adjacent mountains and valleys. Description ''Madia anomala'' is an annual herb growing 20 to 50 centimeters tall with a bristly, glandular, branching stem. The hairy, glandular leaves are several centimeters long. The inflorescence is a cluster of flower heads. Each head is a spherical involucre of hairy phyllaries covered in knobby resin glands. It spreads at the top with several yellow ray florets a few millimeters long and black-tipped disc florets. The fruit is a shiny black achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not ope ... with no pappus. Ex ...
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Madieae
Madieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is sometimes considered a subtribe of Heliantheae. Notable species include the tarweeds of the Western United States as well as the silverswords of Hawaii. Subtribes and genera Madieae subtribes and genera recognized by the Global Compositae Database as of April 2022: *Subtribe Arnicinae **''Arnica'' *Subtribe Baeriinae **'' Amblyopappus'' **'' Baeriopsis'' **'' Constancea'' **''Eriophyllum'' **''Lasthenia'' **'' Monolopia'' **'' Pseudobahia'' **'' Syntrichopappus'' *Subtribe Hulseinae **'' Eatonella'' **'' Hulsea'' *Subtribe Madiinae **''Achyrachaena'' **'' Adenothamnus'' **'' Anisocarpus'' **''Argyroxiphium'' **'' Blepharipappus'' **'' Blepharizonia'' **'' Calycadenia'' **'' Carlquistia'' **'' Centromadia'' **''Deinandra'' **''Dubautia'' **''Harmonia'' **'' Hemizonella'' **'' Hemizonia'' **'' Holocarpha'' **'' Holozonia'' **'' Jensia'' **''Kyhosia'' **'' Lagophylla'' **'' L ...
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