§1 Plant
Madia sativa Molina
vernacular coast tarweed — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Madia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 72 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 72 counties across 10 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Alpine 06003
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Humboldt 06023
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MASA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3140910 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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