Late bloomer.  Tall plant, daisy-like gummy flower heads. The Maidu chewed resin as a cough medicine.

Notes:  Aster (Sunflower) Family, gummy liquid on young flowers can by chewed like gum to coat a sore throat and for a cough remedy; can use the leaves and sap too.  The flowers could also be used as a blood purifier, for lung problems, as a remedy for poison oak, and for bladder infections.  The Maidu boiled the root and made a tea for the liver.  They dried the buds to use for small pox and used a decoction of leaves for sores.

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Kingdom Plantae -- Plants 
    Subkingdom Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants 
        Superdivision Spermatophyta -- Seed plants 
            Division Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants 
                Class Magnoliopsida -- Dicotyledons 
                    Subclass Asteridae 
                        Order Asterales 
                            Family Asteraceae -- Aster family 
                                Genus Grindelia Willd. -- gumweed
                                    Species Grindelia camporum Greene -- Great Valley gumweed