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Narrowleaf yellowtops

Flaveria linearis

Also called Narrow Leaf Yellowtops, Yellowtop

Narrowleaf yellowtops
Photo: (c) Judy Gallagher, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico to Belize
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Flaveria linearis, known as narrowleaf yellowtops, is a North American plant species of Flaveria within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Florida, Cuba, Bahamas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

Flaveria linearis is a perennial herb up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 13 cm (5 in) long. One plant can produce sometimes as many as 150 small flower heads in a branching array. Each head contains 2-8 yellow disc flowers and sometimes a single yellow ray flower.

Other Flaveria plants

Flaveria angustifolia · Flaveria anomala · Clustered Yellowtops · Coastal plain yellowtops · Brown's yellowtops · Alkali yellowtops · Clasping yellowtops · Flaveria cronquistii · Florida yellowtops · Flaveria kochiana · Grand Canyon Flaveria · Flaveria oppositifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flaveria linearis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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