Jensia rammii
| Jensia rammii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Jensia |
| Species: | J. rammii |
| Binomial name | |
| Jensia rammii (Greene) B.G.Baldw. | |
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Jensia rammii is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Ramm's madia. It is endemic to California, where it is limited to the northern slopes of the Sierra Nevada and its foothills. It is an annual herb with a hairy, glandular, branching stem up to 60 centimeters tall. The inflorescence produces flower heads on long peduncles. The head has several yellow ray florets up to a centimeter long with lobed tips. The yellow disc florets at the center have black anthers. The fruit is an achene a few millimeters long.