White Tidytips
Layia glandulosa
White tidytips is a fragrant western annual with crisp white ray flowers around a yellow center, an easy, drought-tolerant reseeder that brightens sandy flats and deserts and feeds spring pollinators. The seed has been ground into a traditional meal or mush.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.3–0.6 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- AZ, CA, ID, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA