E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of BC

Lasthenia maritima (A. Gray) Ornduff
hairy goldfields (maritime goldfields; seaside goldfields)
Asteraceae (Aster family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

General:
Annual herb from a fibrous root; stems prostrate or decumbent, branched, glabrous with age, 10-50 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves lacking; stem leaves opposite, narrow to widely strap-shaped, blunt, somewhat fleshy, entire or lobed, glabrous, 1.5-6 cm long, 2-11 mm wide.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, terminal on branches; involucres 4-7 mm tall; involucral bracts egg-shaped, blunt; ray flowers yellow, 7-12, 1-3 mm long; disk flowers numerous, yellow; receptacles conic.

Fruits:
Achenes linear to narrowly club-shaped, glabrous or stiff-hairy; pappus of 2-4 firm bristles and 2-6 fringed scales, or lacking.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Native	S3	Blue	Not Listed

BC Ministry of Environment: BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer.

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