Carried by 3 nurseries
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Lasthenia glabrata is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name yellowray goldfields. It is endemic to California, where it is a resident of vernal pools and other moist areas in a number of habitat types. This is a daisylike annual herb growing up to about half a meter in maximum height. The thin stem has a few pairs of oppositely-arranged, smooth-edged linear leaves each up to 15 centimeters long. The plant flowers in solitary or loosely clustered flower heads with golden yellow disc and ray florets. The fruit is an achene a few millimeters long with no pappus.
Annual herb
1 - 2 ft Tall
Yellow
Winter, Spring
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Low, Moderate, High
Moderate
Fast, Medium, Slow
Adaptable.
Saline places, vernal pools
Alkali Sink, Coastal Salt Marsh, Northern Oak Woodland, Valley Grassland, Wetland-Riparian
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 1 likely
Small Heliothodes Moth
Heliothodes diminutivus