Yellowray Goldfields
Lasthenia glabrata
Yellowray goldfields is a vernal-pool annual that rings drying pool margins with sheets of golden daisies in spring, an easy reseeder for seasonally wet, sunny, alkaline ground and a valued bee plant. The seed has been parched and eaten dry or cooked like porridge.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.3–1 ft
- Spacing
- 0.3–0.6 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- CA