Family: Asteraceae

This is a cool season annual reaches not much more than a foot wide and tall. In spring bright, little flowers feature golden centers with neat, white edging appear and bloom until the hot weather exhausts plants. The foliage stays low.

Plant from seed or plant as early as September or October, and continually throughout the cool season as late as March. Plant in full to part sun, provide regular water in the growing season. Plants will continue until it gets too hot and./or dry. Plants reseed readily and may re-emerge in the fall in moist locations.

These provide as wonderful nectar plants for numerous pollinators, and are larval host for some moth species.

The genus Layia is named for George T. Lay (c. 1800 – 6 November 1845), an early 19th century English plant collector. The species name "platyglossa" comes from Greek words meaning "broad-tongued," probably referring to the edges of the petals.

Native throughout low-elevation dry habitats in California including the Mojave Desert and into Arizona and Utah.

Layia platyglossa on iNaturalist

Photo by Eric Johnston, Wikipedia