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Flaveria campestris
Alkali yellowtops is a small annual herb of the daisy family, native to the southwestern and southern Great Plains of the USA, where it grows on salty soils and pond or stream margins. It grows well in full sun and tolerates saline, poorly drained ground.
Flaveria campestris, common name alkali yellowtops, is a plant species native to the southwestern United States and to the southern Great Plains (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma). It is found on saline soils and on the margins of lakes, ponds and streams.
Flaveria campestris is an annal herb up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall. It produces a tightly packed corymb of up to 100 small flower heads. Flowers are yellow, sometimes lacking ray flowers, other times with only a single ray flower per head. Each head has 5-8 disc flowers.
Flaveria angustifolia · Flaveria anomala · Clustered Yellowtops · Coastal plain yellowtops · Brown's yellowtops · Clasping yellowtops · Flaveria cronquistii · Florida yellowtops · Flaveria kochiana · Narrowleaf yellowtops · Grand Canyon Flaveria · Flaveria oppositifolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flaveria campestris by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
