Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the quantity of extant species in each family is unknown.
15 branches of this family, most-observed first
Asteroideae
subfamilyAsteroideae
chicories, dandelions, and allies
subfamilyCichorioideae
Thistles and Allies
subfamilyCarduoideae
Vernonioideae
subfamilyVernonioideae
Mutisioideae
subfamilyMutisioideae
Barnadesioideae
subfamilyBarnadesioideae
plampers
subfamilyCorymbioideae
Pertyoideae
subfamilyPertyoideae
Gochnatioideae
subfamilyGochnatioideae
Wunderlichioideae
subfamilyWunderlichioideae
Stifftioideae
subfamilyStifftioideae
prickleleaves
subfamilyHecastocleidoideae
Gymnarrhenoideae
subfamilyGymnarrhenoideae
Famatinanthoideae
subfamilyFamatinanthoideae
Stemmatella
genusStemmatella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47604.