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Flaveria oppositifolia

Flaveria oppositifolia
Photo: Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0

Flaveria oppositifolia is a rare perennial herb from northeastern Mexico in the daisy family, growing up to about 80 cm tall with soft-hairy leaves and small yellow flower heads. Very little cultivation information exists, so it is mainly a wild species of interest to botanists.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry between waterings, as it is adapted to semi-arid northern Mexico.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico

About

Flaveria oppositifolia is a rare Mexican plant species of Flaveria within the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in northeastern Mexico, from Tamaulipas west to Coahuila, south as far as Hidalgo and Aguascalientes. Some sources report the species to be present in the State of Texas in the United States, but the Texas populations have been recognized as a distinct species, F. brownii.

Flaveria oppositifolia is a perennial herb up to 80 cm (31.5 in) tall. Leaves are about 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long, covered in short, soft hairs. One plant can produce numerous flower heads in a loose branching array. Each head contains 10-15 yellow disc flowers but no ray flowers.

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 · Narrowleaf yellowtops · Grand Canyon Flaveria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flaveria oppositifolia 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.

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