Characteristics
Madia glomerata Hook.
mountain tarweed
A waif in newly seeded lawns probably from contaminated grass seeds.
Herbaceous Dicot
Annual
Vascular
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This taxon is part of a whole series of waifs that were collected primarily from lawns on the Cornell University Campus in Ithaca, New York from 1932-1937 but primarily from 1932-1933. These taxa were probably introduced in contaminated seed. The main collector was S.H. Burnham. Other collectors who collected these waifs include M.W. Allen, H. Clap, W.C. Muenscher, C.A. Taylor Jr., and K.M. Wiegand.
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Not Native
FACU (NWPL EMP)
FACU (NWPL NCNE)
SNA (State Rank)
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Classification
Citation
Madia glomerata Hook.
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Species Distribution Map
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