common tarweed

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   California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays

   Synonymscommon madiaMadia elegans

   Broaderwildflower

   Part ofMadia

Questions about common tarweed

What does common tarweed mean?

common tarweed means "California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays".

What is another word for common tarweed?

Close synonyms include common madia, Madia elegans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common tarweed a common word?

common tarweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.