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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Madia elegans
|accepted_authority=D. Don ex Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|place=17: plate 1458. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|common_names=Common madia
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Madia elegans subsp. densifolia
|authority=(Greene) D. D. Keck
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Madia elegans subsp. vernalis
|authority=D. D. Keck
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Madia elegans subsp. wheeleri
|authority=(A. Gray) D. D. Keck
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae;Madia;Madia elegans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Madia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Madia elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 305
|treatment_page=page 307
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>6–250 cm, self-incompatible (heads showy). <b>Stems</b> proximally villous to hirsute, distally glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish, purple, or black, lateral branches sometimes surpassing main stems. <b>Leaf</b> blades lanceolate to linear, 3–20 cm × 2–20 mm. <b>Heads</b> in open, corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± globose to campanulate, 4.5–12 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> ± hirsute or villous, usually glandular-pubescent as well, glands yellowish, purple, or black, apices erect or reflexed, flat. <b>Paleae</b> mostly persistent, mostly connate 1/2+ their lengths. <b>Ray</b> florets (2–)5–22; corollas bright yellow (sometimes with maroon bases), laminae 4–20 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 25–80+, functionally staminate; corollas 2.5–5 mm, pubescent; anthers yellow to brownish or ± dark purple. <b>Ray</b> cypselae black or brown, sometimes mottled, dull, compressed or ± 3-angled (slightly rounded abaxially, angled 15–45° adaxially), beakless (or nearly so). <b>Disc</b> cypselae 0. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Nov.
|habitat=Grasslands, meadows, open sites in shrublands, woodlands, and forests, disturbed sites, often in coarse or clayey soils, sometimes serpentine
|elevation=0–3400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Madia elegans</i> occurs widely in California outside the deserts and in southwestern Oregon and locally in western <i>Nevada</i> and Washington. It is unusually variable in morphology, ecology, and phenology. Molecular data have indicated that D. D. Keck’s (1959) infraspecific taxonomy for <i>M. elegans</i> needs revision. Putative natural (sterile) hybrids with <i>M. sativa</i> have been collected (e.g., D. D. Keck 2647, UC, from northern California).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Madia elegans
|authority=D. Don ex Lindley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Madia elegans subsp. densifolia;Madia elegans subsp. vernalis;Madia elegans subsp. wheeleri
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Nov.
|habitat=Grasslands, meadows, open sites in shrublands, woodlands, and forests, disturbed sites, often in coarse or clayey soils, sometimes serpentine
|elevation=0–3400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|publication year=1831
|special status=Illustrated
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Madiinae
|genus=Madia
|species=Madia elegans
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