tidy tips
noun
variants
or less commonly tidytips
plural in form but singular or plural in construction
: an annual California composite herb (Layia platyglossa) having yellow-rayed flower heads often tipped with white
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The monument’s dusty topography has erupted in color: yellow from the hillside daisies, goldfields and tidy tips, whose ends are frosted white; purple from the phacelia and wild hyacinth; azure splashes from the lupine and baby blue eyes.
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Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
Flowers Enjoy these blooms now and plant to enjoy flowers next April: - Annual flowers blooming this month: nasturtium, flowering sweet peas, native California poppies, native tidy tips (Layia platyglossa), native elegant clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata).
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
Plant seeds for spring flowering annuals like sweet peas, along with flowering native annuals, including California poppies, elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata), Phacaelia, and tidy tips (Laia platyglossa).
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
That year, California poppies blanketed parts of the Antelope Valley, and the Carrizo Plain National Monument was dotted in tidy tips and owl’s clover.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Plant wildflowers like Cleveland sage (a woody perennial) and tidy tips (Layia platyglossa).
—Thad Orr, Sunset Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
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Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
Flowers Enjoy these blooms now and plant to enjoy flowers next April: - Annual flowers blooming this month: nasturtium, flowering sweet peas, native California poppies, native tidy tips (Layia platyglossa), native elegant clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata).
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
Plant seeds for spring flowering annuals like sweet peas, along with flowering native annuals, including California poppies, elegant Clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata), Phacaelia, and tidy tips (Laia platyglossa).
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
That year, California poppies blanketed parts of the Antelope Valley, and the Carrizo Plain National Monument was dotted in tidy tips and owl’s clover.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Plant wildflowers like Cleveland sage (a woody perennial) and tidy tips (Layia platyglossa).
—Thad Orr, Sunset Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
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“Tidy tips.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tidy%20tips. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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