October 30, 2020 Madia elegans Elegant Tarweed This elegant tarweed (Madia elegans) is about three feet tall. Photo by Glen Schneider.Elegant tarweed (Madia elegans). Photo by Glen Schneider.This large patch of one- to one-and-a-half-foot-tall elegant tarweeds (Madia elegans) on UC Berkeley land shows how they bloom in the drying grass and are already closing in this mid-morning photo. Photo by Glen Schneider. More InformationShe Was Not Lost, but Wild: Madia elegans at Skyline Gardens