| Name | Vernonia flexuosa Sims |
| Authorship | Sims |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| Citation | 1824 Bot. Mag. 51: t. 2477 |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia flexuosa Sims |
| Identification made in | [no date] (2) |