Clustered Tarweed budding and blooming, Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, San Diego, August 31, 2025. More flora & fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #CoastalTrail #CabrilloNationalMonument #SanDiego

Clustered Tarweed budding and blooming, Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, San Diego, August 31, 2025. More flora & fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #CoastalTrail #CabrilloNationalMonument #SanDiego

Clustered Tarweed budding and blooming, Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, San Diego, August 31, 2025. More flora & fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #CoastalTrail #CabrilloNationalMonument #SanDiego

Clustered Tarweed budding and blooming, Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, San Diego, August 31, 2025. More flora & fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #CoastalTrail #CabrilloNationalMonument #SanDiego

Clustered Tarweed budding and blooming, Cabrillo National Monument, Point Loma, San Diego, August 31, 2025.

More flora & fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Tarweed
#Tarweeds
#ClusteredTarweed
#CoastalTrail
#CabrilloNationalMonument
#SanDiego

Clustered Tarweeds blooming, Torrey Preserve, Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, August 28, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #TorreyPreserve #TorreyPinesStateBeach #TorreyPines #LaJolla

Clustered Tarweeds blooming, Torrey Preserve, Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, August 28, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #TorreyPreserve #TorreyPinesStateBeach #TorreyPines #LaJolla

Clustered Tarweeds blooming, Torrey Preserve, Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, August 28, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #TorreyPreserve #TorreyPinesStateBeach #TorreyPines #LaJolla

Clustered Tarweeds blooming, Torrey Preserve, Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, August 28, 2025. More flora and fauna photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dgrimmphd&verifiable=any #Flower #Flowers #Nature #Tarweed #Tarweeds #ClusteredTarweed #TorreyPreserve #TorreyPinesStateBeach #TorreyPines #LaJolla

Clustered Tarweeds blooming, Torrey Preserve, Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, August 28, 2025.

More flora and fauna photos:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Flower
#Flowers
#Nature
#Tarweed
#Tarweeds
#ClusteredTarweed
#TorreyPreserve
#TorreyPinesStateBeach
#TorreyPines
#LaJolla

Yellow flowers with brown centers turned in every direction

One yellow common madia flower in full bloom

Evening stroll #norcal #photography #flowers #commonmadia #cnps #tarweed

Cover of the February 2024 American Journal of Botany showing the head (inflorescence) of the tarweed Madia sativa Molina with glandular trichomes.

Check out these highlights from the latest issue of #AJB ---featuring #Venusflytraps, #Asparagus, #tarweed, & #monkeyflowers!

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To see the full issue, go to bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...

#botany

A close-up of the inflorescence of a tarweed (Madia sativa) with glandular trichomes.

The #evolution of glandularity as a defense against #herbivores in the #tarweed clade

New #AJB research by Ian Pearse, @ericlopresti.bsky.social, Bruce Baldwin & Billy Krimmel

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #Asteraceae