''Flaveria angustifolia'' is a Mexican plant species of yellowtops within the family

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. It has been found only in central Mexico, in

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, and the

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. ''Flaveria angustifolia'' is a perennial herb up to tall. Leaves are long and narrow, up to long. One plant can produce numerous flower heads in a dense spiral array. Each head contains 5-7 yellow disc flowers. some heads contain no ray flowers but other heads in the same cluster may have one yellow ray flower.Powell, Albert Michael. 1979. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65(2): 619-620
description and commentary in English, distribution map on page 610

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photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1990
angustifolia Endemic flora of Mexico Plants described in 1795 Taxa named by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon {{Tageteae-stub