Yellow Tarweed
Just look at this late summer flower. I took this picture near our home and happen to find it beautiful. What I would like to know is who came up with this name, yellow tarweed. That’s a terrible name and it just doesn’t do this flower justice. My favorite flower name of all time is indian paintbrush. That’s a name. It cries out ART! Tarweed cries out stick pest plant. Yuck! It needs another name. How about starburst or golden glory! What do you folks think? Give me some names.
THE FORESTER ARTIST 
I don’t have a new name, but I often wonder who got to pick all the weird names.
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Botanist no doubt. They’ve got their noses buried in the latest copy of Munns! They need an artist name advisor.
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How about sunburst? Sunburst beauty. 🙂
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Yes, I love it! That’s it Joy, I hereby appoint you as Chief Advisor to the Botany Committee for Replacement of Terrible Wildflower Names. Congratulations, your salary will be commensurate with the importance of this position. Don’t call us we’ll call you.
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LOL!!
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Tarweed is an awful name for such a beautiful flower. I think any name with the word “sun” in it would be more appropriate, provided it wasn’t then followed by the word “weed”.
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Agreed CM! Sunweed sounds like a new marketing new in the California cannabis market.
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Tikweed is another misnomer for a flower that looks a lot like this one. The Merriam Webster dictionary says tikweed’s real name is pennyroyal. Maybe this one has a “real name” too. Wikipedia says its scientific name is “madia elegans”–so at least somebody perhaps thought it was elegant (one of the many translations I found for “elegans”).
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Indeed Alli! You give me fresh hope for our botanist brothers and sisters. I will have to investigate this further.
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I found “showy tarweed, elegant tarweed, common tarweed and common madia. Some were better and some worse. Those were different subspecies.
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Golden Dawn flower.
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Let’s see “Golden Dawn flower” vs “tarweed”. No brainer here, tarweed is out!
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How about Rays of Sunshine?
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I knew I could count on you to come up with something poetic Linda! Much better sticky pest plant.
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