Lasthenia Maritima (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lasthenia maritima is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name maritime goldfields. It is native to the coastline of western North America, where it is found almost exclusively on small rocky, coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean between Vancouver Island in British Columbia to the Farallon Islands off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. This species probably evolved from Lasthenia minor, and it is adapted to the unique conditions on these maritime islands: high winds, saline sea spray, and thin soils that are often disturbed by the activities of the seabirds that roost and nest on these rocks and made acidic and nitrogen-rich from their droppings.