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|accepted_name=Layia platyglossa
|accepted_authority=(Fischer & C. A. Meyer) A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|place=4: 103. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Tidy tips
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Callichroa platyglossa
|authority=Fischer & C. A. Meyer
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Layia platyglossa subsp. campestris
|authority=D. D. Keck
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Layia ziegleri
|authority=Munz
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae;Layia;Layia platyglossa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Layia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Layia platyglossa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 263, 264, 266
|treatment_page=page 265
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>3–70 cm (self-incompatible); glandular, not strongly scented. <b>Stems</b> usually not purple-streaked. <b>Leaf</b> blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, 4–100(–120) mm, margins (basal leaves) toothed to pinnatifid. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric, 4–18 × 4–15+ mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 5–18, apices often longer (sometimes shorter) than folded bases. <b>Paleae</b> in 1 series between ray and disc florets. <b>Ray</b> florets 5–18; laminae yellow or proximally yellow and distally white, 3–21 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 6–120+; corollas 3.5–6 mm; anthers ± dark purple (in southwest of range, sometimes yellow or brownish). <b>Ray</b> cypselae glabrous or sparsely hairy. <b>Disc</b> pappi 0 or of 14–32 white to tawny, ± equal bristles or setiform scales 2–5 mm, each ± scabrous, usually not plumose and not adaxially woolly (in southwest of range, often proximally plumose and adaxially woolly). <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–Jul.
|habitat=Open, often grassy slopes or flats, disturbed sites, often on sandy or clayey soil, sometimes serpentine
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Layia platyglossa</i> occurs from the North Coast Ranges through central-western and southwestern California and west to the immediate coast and east into the central Great Valley. A specimen reported by S. L. Welsh et al. (1993) from dunes in Utah (Harrison 2545, BRY) may be mislabeled.</p>
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name=Layia platyglossa
|author=
|authority=(Fischer & C. A. Meyer) A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Layia platyglossa subsp. campestris;Layia ziegleri
|basionyms=Callichroa platyglossa
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–Jul.
|habitat=Open, often grassy slopes or flats, disturbed sites, often on sandy or clayey soil, sometimes serpentine
|elevation=0–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae
|genus=Layia
|species=Layia platyglossa
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