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Flaveria floridana
Florida yellowtops is a native perennial herb of Florida's Gulf Coast, growing up to about 1.2 m tall with clusters of small yellow flower heads. It is a wild plant of the Tampa Bay region rather than a common garden subject.
Flaveria floridana, the Florida yellowtops, is a North American plant species of Flaveria within the family Asteraceae. It has been found only along the Gulf Coast of Florida between Clearwater and Marco Island, mostly in the Tampa Bay region.
Flaveria floridana is a perennial herb up to 120 cm (3.9 ft) tall. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 14 cm (5.5 in) long. One plant can sometimes produce as many as 100 flower heads in a tightly packed array. Each head contains 9-14 yellow disc flowers. Sometimes it produces a single yellow ray flower as well.
Flaveria angustifolia · Flaveria anomala · Clustered Yellowtops · Coastal plain yellowtops · Brown's yellowtops · Alkali yellowtops · Clasping yellowtops · Flaveria cronquistii · Flaveria kochiana · Narrowleaf yellowtops · Grand Canyon Flaveria · Flaveria oppositifolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flaveria floridana 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.
