Flaveria linearisLag.

narrowleaf yellowtops

WFO wfo-0000032105 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Flaveria linearis, photographed by David Garza
fig. a David Garza, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197655140
Flaveria linearis, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. b Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196924336
Flaveria linearis, photographed by Stephanie C
fig. c Stephanie C, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193260887
Flaveria linearis, photographed by David Garza
fig. d David Garza, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193327565
Flaveria linearis, photographed by Michelle Sevcovas
fig. e Michelle Sevcovas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180111473
Flaveria linearis, photographed by Michael W Belitz
fig. f Michael W Belitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174770753
Flaveria linearis, photographed by Neli Kanonerova
fig. g Neli Kanonerova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171863836
Flaveria linearis, photographed by Stan Shebs
fig. h Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171170785

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Flaveria linearis is native: Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba FloridaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastBelizeCuba Bahamas
Native distribution of Flaveria linearis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cuba CUB

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 204 in flower of 212 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Flaveria linearis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 204 of 212 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Flaveria latifolia (J.R.Johnst.) R.W.Long & Rhamst.
  • Flaveria latifolia (J.R.Johnst.) Rydb.
  • Flaveria maritima Kunth
  • Flaveria tenuifolia Nutt.
  • Gymnosperma nudatum (Nutt.) DC.
  • Selloa nudata Nutt.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.