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Answer for the clue "Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light ", 5 letters:
madia

Word definitions for madia in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
For the furniture piece, see Madia (furniture) For a people of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra , India see Madia Gond . Madia is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tarweed tribe within the sunflower family ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Madia \Ma"di*a\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. madi, fr. Chilian madi, the native name.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species ( Madia sativa ) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive ...

Usage examples of madia.

Code Five meant complete madia block, and all departmental records would be sealed during the investigation.

Young Calif had a great deal to live up to, Madia thought, recalling some of the men she had dallied with, the finest knights in all of Ariman.

Madia stayed very still, breathing quietly, watching as the soldiers dragged all three bodies behind thick brush.