Flaveria palmeri Johnston

Flaveria palmeri J. R. Johnston, Proc. Am. Acad 39: 290. 1903.
A perennial herb, with a thickened root; stems several, more or less reclining, branching, glabrous; leaves lance-linear, sparingly denticulate, slightly connate, 1-4 cm. long; heads about 5-flowered, in rather small cymes in corymbiform panicles; involucral bracts 3, oblong, 5 mm. long, the calyculate ones 1 or 2, minute; ligule oval, 3 mm. long; disk-corollas
3 mm. long; tube villous, not longer than the throat; aehenes nearly 2 mm. long.
Type locality: San Lorenzo de Laguna, Coahuila. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Flaveria intermedia J. R. Johnston, Proc. Am. Acad 39: 287. 1903.
A dichotomously branched herb; stem about 3 dm. high, angled, purplish, pubescent; leaves 1-5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, opposite or whorled; inflorescence loose, corymbiform; heads few-flowered; involucral bracts 3, oblong, 3 mm. long or less, the calyculate ones conspicuous; ligule about 1.5 mm. long; disk-flowers 5 or 6; corollas 2.5 mm. long; tube glabrous, about equaling the throat; achene of the ray 2.5 mm. long, those of the disk-flowers nearly
2 mm. long.
Type locality: Plains of Yermo, Durango. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Flaveria palmeri is a rare Mexican plant species of Flaveria within the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in the States of Coahuila and Nuevo León in northeastern Mexico.

Flaveria palmeri grows in dry gypsum soils in the Chihuahuan Desert. It is a shrub up to 75 cm (30 in) tall. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 8 cm (3 in) long. One plant can produce numerous small yellow flower heads in loose, branching arrays. Each head contains 3-8 disc flowers plus a few ray flowers.