Flaveria linearis Lag.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Flaveria linearis Lag.

  • Description

    Species Description - Perennial, glabrous or nearly so, somewhat woody, usually branched, erect or decumbent, 3-9 dm. long. Leaves lineaT, entire, 3-7 cm. long, 1-6 mm. wide; heads commonly numerous, in terminal corymbose cymes, short-peduncled; involucre narrow, about 4 mm. high, its principal bracts about 5, lanceolate or oblong, acute; ray-flower usually only one, its ligule 3-4 mm. long.

  • Discussion

    Coastal coppices and scrub-lands, Joulter's Cays, Andros, New Providence, Water Cay on Cay Sal bank : Florida ; Cuba ; Alacran Shoals ; Yucatan. The Cay Sal bank plant is of a broad-leaved race. Narrow-leaved Flaveria.

  • Distribution

    Joulter's Cays, Andros, New Providence, Water Cay on Cay Sal bank : Florida ; Cuba ; Alacran Shoals ; Yucatan.

    Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Yucatán Mexico North America|