Flaveria
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Glabrous or minutely puberulent, light green, annual or perennial herbs, with opposite sessile leaves, and small, 1-several-flowered, usually sessile, oblong, densely cymose-capitate heads of tubular, or both tubular and radiate, yellow or yellowish flowers. Involucre of 2-5 narrow, nearly equal, appressed bracts, sometimes with 1 or 2 additional small exterior ones. Receptacle small, naked. Ray-flower commonly one, pistillate, fertile, sometimes wanting. Disk-flowers 1-15, perfect, fertile, their corollas 5-toothed. Anthers entire at the base. Style-branches of the disk-flowers truncate. Aehenes oblong or linear-oblong, 8-10-ribbed. Pappus none. [Latin, flavus, yellow, from its dyeing properties.] Type species: Flaveria chilensis J. F. Gmel.