Flaveria linearis
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Yellowtop
Asteraceae (Compositae)
Plant Specifics
| Form: | Flower | |
| Size: | 2-3 ft tall by 3-4 ft wide | |
| Life Span: | Long-lived perennial | |
| Flower Color: | Yellow | |
| Fruit Color: | NA | |
| Phenology: | Perennial. Blooms fall and winter. | |
| Noted for: | Showy flowers |
Landscaping
| Recommended Uses: | Wildflower garden or tall-growing groundcover. Forms mounds that are typically wider than tall. Cut back to ground after flowering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Considerations: | Becomes weedy-looking after flowering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Propagation: | Easily grown from seed. Seeds are available through the Florida Wildflowers Growers Cooperative. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Availability: | Native nurseries, Seed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Light: | Full Sun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moisture Tolerance: |
always floodedextremely dry |
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| (Somewhat moist, no flooding ----- to ----- Short very dry periods) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moisture Tolerance: | Somewhat moist, no flooding ----- to ----- Short very dry periods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: | Tolerant of inundation with brackish water | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: | High. Can tolerate significant and ongoing amounts of salty wind and salt spray without injury. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soil or other substrate: | Lime rock, Sand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soil pH: | Acidic to circum-neutral | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecology
| Wildlife: |
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| Insects: | Nectar plant for cassius blue (Leptotes cassius), Dorantes longtail (Urbanus dorantes), eufala skipper (Lerodea eufala), field skipper (Atalopedes campestris), Florida duskywing (Ephyriades brunneus), Florida white (Appias drusilla), great southern white (Ascia monuste), julia (Dryas iulia), large orange sulphur (Phoebis agarithe), martial scrub-hairstreak (Strymon martialis), monk skipper (Asbolis capucinus), obscure skipper (Panoquina panoquinoides), Palatka skipper (Euphyes pilatka), red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops), sachem (Atalopedes campestris), southern broken-dash (Wallengrenia otho), three-spotted skipper (Cymaenes tripunctus), twin-spot skipper (Oligorio maculata), zarucco duskywing (Erymis zarucco) and other butterflies. (IRC) Attracts bees. | |
| Native Habitats: | Depression and basin marshes, wet prairies, pine rocklands, edges of mangrove swamps, disturbed areas such as berms and dikes near the coast, edges of tidal marshes. |
Distribution and Planting Zones
Natural Range in Florida
USDA Zones
Suitable to grow in:
10A 10B 11 8B 9A 9B
USDA zones are based on minimum winter temperatures
Comments
| General Comments: | This species is almost always coastal occupying only a strip along the coastline and not entire counties. |