Flaveria campestris
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Flaveria campestris, common name Alkali yellowtops,[2] is a plant species native to the southwestern United States and to the southern Great Plains (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri).[3] It is found on saline soils and on the margins of lakes, ponds and streams.[2]
Flaveria campestris is an annal herb up to 90 cm (3 feet) tall. It produces a tightly packed corymb of up to 100 small flower heads. Flowers are yellow, sometimes lacking ray flowers, other times with only a single ray flower per head. Each head has 5-8 disc flowers. [2][4][5]
References
- ^ The Plant List, Flaveria campestris
- ^ a b c Flora of North America, Flaveria campestris J. R. Johnston, 1903. Alkali yellowtops .
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ^ Johnston, John Robert. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 39(11): 287. 1903.
- ^ Powell, Albert Michael. 1979. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65(2): 626-628 description and commentary in English, distribution map on page 608
