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Madia sativa (coast tarweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Madia sativa, known by the common names coast tarweed and Chilean tarweed, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family found in parts of western North and South America.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Monoecious
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The seed is rich in an oil which is a good substitute for olive oil. It does not solidify until the temperature is lower than -11
Height [1]  30 inches (0.75 m)
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Pollinated by 
Centris cineraria[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Community studies in pollination ecology in the high temperate Andes of Central Chile. I. Pollination mechanisms and altitudinal variation., Arroyo, M. T. K., R. B. Primack, and J. J. Armesto. 1982. American Journal of Botany 69:82-97
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0