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Definition of Common madia
1. Noun. California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Madia, Madia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Madia
Literary usage of Common madia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"common madia. Stem 1 to 3 ft. high; lower leaves linear, 3 to 8 in. long,
short-hirsute, often densely so; upper leaves much reduced in size, ..."
2. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1837)
"A well-known, favourite, hardy annual, clothed with the same clammy and fetid
pubescence as the common Madia viscosa (saliva Dec. ..."
3. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1882)
"... for the two Hawaiian Island genera, tor the extension of the common Madia into
Chili, and for the eastward extension of some species into the plains. ..."
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