Tidy Tips
Layia platyglossa
Cheerful spring annual whose yellow daisies are crisply tipped in white, carpeting grasslands and reseeding into drifts. An easy, classic California wildflower. The seed has been ground into a traditional meal or mush (piñole).
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- CA, UT