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.photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León in 1989

Flaveria palmeri grows in dry gypsum soils in the Chihuahuan Desert. It is a shrub up to tall. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 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.Powell, Albert Michael. 1979. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 65(2): 621-622 description and commentary in English, distribution map on page 608Johnston, John Robert. 1903. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 39: 290

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