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Asteraceae (Compositae)        Sunflower Family

Herbs or shrubs; leaves without stipules; flowers in a head on a common receptacle, surrounded by one or more rows of bracts; heads one to many; receptacle sometimes covered with bracts or scales each subtending a flower; the calyx is gamesepalous, its tube adherent to the ovary, its limb none or cup-shaped or developed into teeth, scales, awns or bristles; corollas all alike in one head or dissimilar, gamopetalous; stamens5, the anthers usually united entire; the stigmatic surface variously located on the style; ovary inferior; fruit an achene often compressed either laterally or parallel to the subtending chaff.

 

Achillea millefolium

Adenocaulon bicolor

Agoseris aurantiaca  

Agoseris glauca 

Agoseris heterophylla 

Anaphalis margaritacea

Anthemis arvensis

Anthemis cotula

Arnica latifolia

Arnica parryi

Aster ledophyllus

Bellis perennis

Cacaliopsis nardosmia  (Luina nardosmia)

Cichorium intybus

Circium edule

Cirsium vulgare

Crepis capillaris

Eriophyllum lanatum 

Leucanthemum vulgare   (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)

Matricaria discoidea  (Matricaria matricarioides)

Microseris laciniata 

Petasites frigidus

Rainiera stricta  (Luina stricta)

Senecio integerrimus

Senecio jacobea

Senecio vulgaris

Solidago canadensis

Sonchus asper 

Tanacetum vulgare 

Taraxacum officinale