Flaveria bidentis |
Flaveria trinervia |
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coastal plain yellowtops |
cluster yellow tops |
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Habit | Annuals, to 100 cm (delicate or robust, sparsely villous). | Annuals, to 200+ cm (delicate or robust, glabrate or glabrous). |
Stems | erect. |
erect. |
Leaves | petiolate (proximal, petioles 3–15 mm) or sessile (distal); blades lanceolate-elliptic, 50–120(–180) × 10–25(–70) mm, bases (distal) connate, margins serrate or spinulose serrate. |
petiolate (proximal, petioles 10–20 mm) or sessile (distal); blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic or subovate, 30–150 × (7–)10–40 mm, bases (distal) connate, margins serrate, serrate-dentate, or spinulose-serrate. |
Involucres | oblong-angular, 5 mm. |
oblong and cylindric or angular, 3.8–4.5 mm. |
Ray florets | 0 or 1; laminae pale yellow, ovate-oblique, to 1 mm (not or barely surpassing phyllaries). |
0–1; laminae pale yellow or whitish, oblique or suborbiculate, 0.5–1 mm. |
Disc florets | (2–)3–8; corolla tubes ca. 0.8 mm, throats funnelform, 0.8 mm. |
0–1(–2); corolla tubes 0.5–1.4 mm, throats campanulate, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
Phyllaries | 3(–4), oblong. |
usually 2, oblong (closely investing and falling with mature cypselae). |
Calyculi | of 1–2 linear bractlets 1–2 mm. |
0. |
Heads | 20–100+ in tight subglomerules in scorpioid, cymiform arrays. |
30–300+, in tight, axillary, sessile glomerules (receptacles of glomerules setose). |
Cypselae | oblanceolate or subclavate, 2–2.5 mm (those of ray florets longer); pappi 0. |
oblanceoloid to subclavate, 2–2.6 mm (rays longer); pappi 0. |
2n | = 36. |
= 36. |
Flaveria bidentis |
Flaveria trinervia |
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Phenology | Flowering year round. | Flowering Mar–Dec. |
Habitat | Moist places, waste or disturbed ground, clay, gravel, or sand | Near water, saline and gypseous areas |
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) | 0–1900 m (0–6200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MA; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; also introduced in Europe (Great Britain) and Africa (Egypt and south)] |
AZ; CA; FL; MA; MO; NM; TX; VA; HI; West Indies; Central America (British Honduras); South America (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela); Africa [Probably introduced in Asia (India, Middle East)]
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Discussion | In the United States, Flaveria bidentis often occurs on ballast and waste ground near wharfs and the shore, locations that suggest its introduction from sailing vessels. The species is widespread and well established in South America, where it is thought to be native. Its floral structure appears to be the least advanced among the annual species of Flaveria, the heads being in somewhat scorpioid arrays. Distinguishing characteristics are 3(–4) phyllaries, 2–8 florets per head, reduced ray corollas, pubescent stems, and lanceolate-elliptic, bluish green, sometimes pubescent leaves. Flaveria bidentis is probably most closely related to F. campestris and F. trinervia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Flaveria trinervia is widespread and weedy; it often occurs in saline, gypseous, disturbed areas near permanent or ephemeral water sources in southern Florida and from Texas to southern California. It occurs also in scattered locations in some eastern states and has been reported from Alabama. The heads of Flaveria trinervia, which usually contain just one floret, are either radiate or discoid; radiate heads tend to occur on the periphery of setose glomerules. Reduction of some of the floral features, including number of florets [0–1(–2)], phyllaries per head (2), and size of ray laminae, suggest that F. trinervia may be the most derived species in the genus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 249. | FNA vol. 21, p. 250. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Flaveriinae > Flaveria | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Flaveriinae > Flaveria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Ethulia bidentis | Odera trinervia |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Kuntze: Revis. Gen. Pl. 3([3]): 148. (1898) | (Sprengel) C. Mohr: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 6: 810. (1901) |
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