Narrowleaf Yellowtops

Flaveria linearis Lag. Gen. & Sp. Nov. 33. 1816
Flaveria maritime H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 4: 285. 1820. Selloa nudata Nutt. Am. Jour. Sci. 5: 300. 1822. Flaveria tenuifolia Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7: 81. 1834. Gymnosperma nudatam DC. Prodr. 5: 312. 1836.
An apparently perennial plant, shrubby at the base ; stem from erect to prostrate, much branched, 2-8 dm. high, striate, glabrous; lower internodes short and with persistent leafbases; leaves linear, connate and even vaginate at the base, entire, 2-10 cm. long, 1-4 mm. wide; inflorescence irregular; heads in smaller or larger glomerules, 3-5-fiowered; involucral bracts 5, equal, 3 mm. long, the calyculate ones minute; ray-flower usually present; ligule oval, fully 2 mm. long; disk-flowers 2-4; corollas 2.5 mm. long; tube glandular-puberulent, scarcely longer than the throat; achenes 2 mm. long.
Type locality: Havana. Cuba.
Distribution: Florida, Bahamas, and Cuba; Yucatan.

Flaveria latifolia (J. R. Johnston) Rydberg, sp. now
Flaveria linearis latifolia J. R. Johnston, Proc. Am. Acad. 39: 289. 1903.
An annual herb; stem greenish or reddish, striate, glabrate, 5-10 dm. high; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, serrulate or entire, connate at the base, 2.5-10 cm. long, 5-30 mm. wide; heads in rather small glomerules, arranged in an open corymb; involucral bracts 5, elliptic-oblong, 3.5-4 mm. long, the calyculate ones minute or wanting; ligule 2.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; disk-flowers 2-5; corollas 2.5 mm. long; tube glandular-puberulent, about equaling the throat; achenes 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Lake Worth, near Palm Beach, Florida. Distribution: Florida; Yucatan (?).