Madia
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- For the furniture piece, see Madia (furniture)
Madia is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs, which have yellow flowers, in the family Asteraceae (sunflower family). They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The 21 species in this genus are native to western North America and southwestern South America. The name Madia is derived from a Chilean name ("Madi") for one of the members of the genus.
Selected species:
- Madia anomala - plumpseeded madia
- Madia bolanderi - Bolander's madia
- Madia citrigracilis - Shasta tarweed
- Madia citriodora - lemon-scented madia
- Madia doris-nilesiae - serpentine tarweed
- Madia elegans - common madia
- Madia exigua - small tarweed
- Madia glomerata - mountain tarweed
- Madia gracilis - grassy tarweed
- Madia hallii - Hall's madia
- Madia madioides - woodland madia
- Madia minima - least tarweed
- Madia nutans - nodding madia
- Madia radiata - golden madia
- Madia rammii - Ramm's madia
- Madia sativa - coast tarweed
- Madia stebbinsii - Stebbins' madia
- Madia subspicata - slender tarweed
- Madia yosemitana - Yosemite madia
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