Madia gracilis
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| image = Madiagracilis.jpg
| status = G5
| status_system = TNC
| status_ref = {{Cite NatureServe|date=6 December 2024|id=2.145632|title=Madia gracilis | NatureServe Explorer|access-date=23 December 2024}}
| genus = Madia
| species = gracilis
| authority = (Sm.) D.D.Keck & J.C.Clausen ex Applegate
| synonyms =
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|Sclerocarpus gracilis | Sm.
|Madia dissitiflora | Torr. & A.Gray
|Madia gracilis subsp. collina | D.D.Keck
|Madia gracilis subsp. pilosa | D.D.Keck
|Madia sativa var. dissitiflora | (Nutt.) A.Gray
|Madia sativa subsp. dissitiflora | D.D.Keck
|Madorella dissitiflora | Nutt.
|}}
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Madia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names grassy tarweed, slender tarweed, and gumweed madia.{{Cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Madia gracilis |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=38030 |access-date= |website=www.itis.gov}}{{Cite web |title=Madia gracilis in Flora of North America @ efloras.org |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250067142 |access-date= |website=www.efloras.org}}
Description
Madia gracilis is vstem is branching, and hairy and glandular in texture. The leaves are up to 10 centimeters long and covered in soft hairs and stalked resin glands.
The inflorescence is an array of clusters of flower heads. Each head is lined with phyllaries that are coated densely with stalked knobby resin glands. It bears yellow, lobe-tipped ray florets a few millimeters long and several black-anthered disc florets.
Distribution and habitat
The annual herb is native to western North America: from British Columbia, through California to Baja California; and east to Utah and Montana.{{PLANTS|symbol=MAGR3|taxon=Madia gracilis (Sm.) D.D. Keck|access-date=7 June 2022}}[http://www.eol.org/pages/820116 Encyclopedia of Life: Madia gracilis], C.Michael Hogan ed. 2010 It grows in many habitat types except for arid desert areas, including oak woodlands and mixed evergreen forests.[https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=4047 Jepson Madia gracilis]
Uses
The seeds were used to make pinole by the indigenous Mendocino, Miwok, and Pomo peoples of California.[http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Madia+gracilis University of Michigan at Dearborn: Native American Ethnobotany of Madia gracilis]
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Madia gracilis}}
- [http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=5291 Calflora Database: Madia gracilis (Gumweed madia, grassy tarweed, slender tarweed)]
- [https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=4047 Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Madia gracilis]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Madia+gracilis UC Photos gallery — Madia gracilis]
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Category:Flora of the Northwestern United States
Category:Flora of Baja California
Category:Flora of British Columbia
Category:Flora of the Cascade Range
Category:Flora of the Great Basin
Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Category:Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Category:Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Category:Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Category:Plants used in Native American cuisine
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