About Layia hieracioides (DC.) Hook. & Arn.
Layia hieracioides is an annual herb. It produces a thick, glandular, strongly scented stem that reaches a maximum height near 1.3 meters, though it often grows shorter. Its thin leaves range from linear to lance-shaped. The lower leaves are either lobed or toothed, and can grow up to nearly 15 centimeters in maximum length. The base of its flower head is rounded to urn-shaped, formed of green phyllaries covered in dark glandular hairs. The flower head holds short yellow ray florets just a few millimeters long, which surround a central cluster of yellow disc florets that have purple anthers. Its fruit is an achene; fruits that develop from the disc florets have a pappus made of bristles.
