Astereae is a tribe of plants in the family Asteraceae that includes annuals, biennials, perennials, subshrubs, shrubs and trees. Plants within the tribe are present nearly worldwide divided into 170 genera and more than 2,800 species. They are found primarily in temperate regions of the world.1]
The taxonomy of the tribe Astereae has been dramatically changed after both morphologic and molecular evidence suggested that large genera such as Aster, as well as many others, needed to be separated into several genera or shifted to better reflect the
plants' relationships. A paper by R. D. Noyes and L. H. Rieseberg[2] showed that most of the genera within the tribe in North America actually belong to a single clade, meaning they have a common ancestor. This is referred to as the North American clade. and Harold E. Robinson have been two of the most important taxonomists involved in the recent work and are continuing to re-categorise the genera within the tribe worldwide.[1]
Asteranthera is a genus of African violet. Native to the humid forests of Argentina and Chile, it is a species of evergreen scrambling vine. The plant has small, scalloped-margin and rounded leaves and its two-lipped, tubular red flowers with white markings grow in the summer. It can be grown as a climber or a ground cover. [more]
Astilbe () is a genus of 18 species of perennial, herbaceous flowering plants, within the family Saxifragaceae. Some species are commonly known as False Goat's Beard, and False Spirea. Astilbe species are native to Asia and North America. [more]
Baccharis
Baccharis () is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family (Asteraceae). They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely different lineage of eudicots. B. halimifolia is commonly known as "groundsel bush", and in fact Baccharis is in the same family as the true groundsels, Senecio. [more]
Bellis
Bellis is a genus of 15 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region and northern Africa. One species has been introduced into North America and others into other parts of the world. [more]
Bergenia
Bergenia is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae, native to central Asia, from Afghanistan to China and the Himalaya. They are evergreen perennial plants with a spirally arranged rosette of leaves 6-35 cm long and 4-15 cm broad, and pink flowers produced in a cyme. [more]
Boltonia
Boltonia is a genus of plants in the Asteraceae family. [more]
Bomarea
Bomarea is one of the two major in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes. Several species are occasionally found as garden plants. [more]
Brachycome
Brachyscome is a of 65 species of shrub in the daisy family Asteraceae. 60 of these are found in Australia, the remainder in New Zealand and New Guinea. [more]
Brachyscome
Brachyscome is a of 65 species of shrub in the daisy family Asteraceae. 60 of these are found in Australia, the remainder in New Zealand and New Guinea. [more]
Buxus
Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box (majority of English-speaking countries) or boxwood (North America). [more]
Calamintha
Calamintha is a genus of plants that belongs to the family Lamiaceae. There are about thirty species in the genus which is native to the northern temperate regions of Europe and Asia. [more]
Callistephus
Callistephus () is a genus of flowering plants, in the Asteraceae (daisy family); the genus includes only one species, C. chinensis, the China Aster. [more]
Celmisia is a genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs, in the family Asteraceae. There are around 70 species; most are endemic to New Zealand, between four and 10 are endemic to Australia. The genus was first formally described by botanist Alexandre de Cassini in 1813. [more]
A Golden aster, old genus Chrysopsis, and new Genus Heterotheca is a member of the Asteraceae family. This is a new world genus of the Asteraceae family. [more]
Chrysothamnus
Chrysothamnus, common name Rabbitbrush, is a member of the Asteraceae family. It is a deciduous shrub, similar to sagebrush with a native range in the arid western United States and Mexico. It is known for its bright white or yellow flowers in late summer. [more]
Codonopsis
Codonopsis is a genus of flowering plant within the family Campanulaceae. It is allied to and Leptocodon, and some authors suggest that Codonopsis should include these genera. Without them, Codonopsis includes 55 species endemic to East Asia. [more]
Commidendrum
Commidendrum is a of four species of trees and shrubs in the family Asteraceae endemic to the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. The vernacular name is gumwood or scrubwood. [more]
Conyza
Conyza (horseweed, butterweed or fleabane) is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, and also north into cool temperate regions in North America and eastern Asia. The genus is closely related to Erigeron (also known as fleabanes). [more]
Diplostephium is a genus of trees and shrubs, that has ca. 110 species (Ulloa & Jørgensen, 2004). It is distributed on high mountains zones from Venezuela to Chile with the exception of two species in Costa Rica (INBio information system, July 2005) and twelve in the "Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta" (Colombia). It makes part of the high andean forest and the paramo ecosystems. Colombia has the most species with 63, the mayority of them found in the Oriental Cordillera, which has 33 registered species until this moment. Diplostephium is the third most diverse genus on the paramos with 70 species after Pentacalia and Senecio (Luteyn, 1999). [more]
Engleria
Ericameria
Ericameria is a genus of shrubs in the Asteraceae or daisy family known by the common names rabbitbrush, rabbitbush, and goldenbush. These are semi-deciduous shrubs familiarly known as to sagebrush. They are distributed in the arid western United States and northern Mexico. Bright yellow flowers adorn the plants in late summer. Ericameria nauseosa, a synonym of Chrysothamnus nauseosus, is known for its production of latex. [more]
Erigeron
Erigeron (; syn. Stenactis Cass.) is a genus of about 390 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest species diversity in North America, where 173 species occur. [more]
The name Felicia (a Latin female version of "Felix", meaning happiness) is associated with saints, poets, astronomical objects, plant genera, fictional characters, and animals, especially cats. [more]
Fenestraria
Fenestraria is a genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae. The species is also called babies toes or window plant. On each leaf there is transparent window-like area at the top, it is for these window-like structures that the genus is named (Latin: fenestra). In the wild, the plant grows mostly buried by sand. The transparent tips are often above the sand and allow light into the leaves for photosynthesis. F. rhopalophylla is native to Namibia and Namaqualand in southern Africa. The plants are generally found growing in sandy or calciferous soils under low < 100 mm rainfall. [more]
Grindelia is a genus of plants native to the Americas belonging to the family Asteraceae, (Compositae). G. squarrosa, a plant with bright yellow flowers indigenous to much of the United States, is commonly called curlycup gumweed. G. robusta, found in the western states, is a coastal scrub bush that is reputed to have several medicinal uses. Hairy gumweed, Grindelia cuneifolia, occurs in brackish coastal marshes of western North America, such as in some portions of the San Francisco Bay perimeter. [more]
Gutierrezia
Gutierrezia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Plants of this genus are known generally as snakeweeds or matchweeds. There are about 25 species found in North and South America. These plants contain chemical compounds which can be toxic to livestock and some are considered weeds. They bear small yellow daisylike flowers. [more]
Haplopappus
Haplopappus is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. Until the 1990s, Haplopappus was a wastebasket taxon for many species in the tribe Astereae, and most species have since been moved to other genera. [more]
Heterotheca
A Golden aster, old genus Chrysopsis, and new Genus Heterotheca is a member of the Asteraceae family. This is a new world genus of the Asteraceae family. [more]
Hosta (, syn.: Funkia) is a genus of about 23?45 species of lily-like plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, native to northeast Asia. They have been placed in their own family, Hostaceae (or Funkiaceae); like many 'lilioid monocots', they were once classified in the Liliaceae. The scientific name is also used as the common name; in the past they were also sometimes called the Corfu Lily, the Day Lily, or the Plantain lily, but these terms are now obsolete. The name Hosta is in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host. The Japanese name Giboshi is also used in English to a small extent. The rejected generic name Funkia, also used as a common name, can be found in some older literature. [more]
Juniperus
Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus () of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are between 50-67 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America. [more]
Herbs rarely subshrubs, perennial, stout, sometimes small, rarely acaulescent.Taproot conic, unbranched, caudexsimple, rarely branched, woody. Stem often strongly angled and fluted, base densely clothed with fibrousleaf remains. Basal leaves 1-4-pinnate or 1-4-pinnatisect; ultimatesegmentslinear, ovate or lanceolate, entire or lobed.Umbelscompound, terminal and lateral; bracts few to numerous or absent; rays numerous to few; bracteoles several, linear or lanceolate.Calyxteethconspicuous, linear, triangular or elliptic.Petalswhite,
rarely pinkish, ovate or obcordate, apex narrow, inflexed.Stylopodium low-conic, margins often undulate at thebase.Fruitovoid or oblong, slightly to moderately dorsallycompressed; dorsal ribsfiliform, low or prominent, acute-ridged, lateral ribs sometimes slightly broader; vittae 1-2(-3) in each furrow, 2-4 (rarely 6-8) on commissure.Seedfaceplane.Carpophore entire or 2-parted.[2][more]
Loranthus
Loranthus is a genus of mostly parasitic plants that grow on the branches of woody trees. It belongs to the family Loranthaceae, the showy mistletoe family. In most earlier systematic treatments it contains all mistletoe species with bisexual flowers, though some species have reversed to unisexual flowers, while most modern systematists treat it as a monotypic genus with the only species Loranthus europaeus Jacq. - the summer mistletoe or European yellow mistletoe. In contrast to the wellknown European or Christmas mistletoe (Viscum album L., Santalaceae or Viscaceae) this species is deciduous. The systematic situation of Loranthus is not entirely clear, and some showy mistletoes in Asia may be true parts of this genus. [more]
Machaeranthera
Machaeranthera is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family which are known by the common name tansyaster. Tansyasters are variable in appearance. Some are small singular wildflowers while others are sprawling shrubs. Several species easily hybridize with each other as well, making identification difficult. In general, members of the genus may be identified by the sharp-pointed, dagger-shaped anthers in the disc florets at the center of the flower. The flower heads are usually daisylike and are usually a shade of purple or blue, but may be pink, yellow, or white. Tansyasters are native to western North America. [more]
Melanodendron integrifolium (Black Cabbage Tree) is one of the endemic trees in the Asteraceae family from the island of Saint Helena (South Atlantic Ocean). It is related to the Saint Helenan gumwoods (Commidendrum spp.) and is the commonest of the remaining cabbage tree species of Saint Helena, although it is considered endangered due to the restricted population size. [more]
Olearia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 130 different species within the genus found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus includes herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, the latter unusual among the Asteraceae. [more]
Perennials, 10-80 cm (forming clumps) ; rhizomatous.Stemsascending to erect, simpleor branched, usually moderately to densely appressed silky-sericeous (hairs often anastomosing), rarely glabrate, sometimes stipitate-glandular.Leavesbasal and cauline; alternate; sessile; blades
3-11-parallel-nerved, linear to lanceolate or ovate, often grasslike (basal shorter or longer than mid, mid larger), marginsentire, faces glabrate to densely piloso-sericeous (hairs long, thin, soft, sometimes anastomosing). Headsradiate, usually in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, rarely borne singly. Involucresturbinate (campanulate upon drying), (4.5-13 ×) 5.5-14 mm.Phyllaries 30-50 in 3-5 series, 1-nerved (midnerves sometimes raised; not keeled), lanceolate, unequal, margins scarious, (darker green zones lens-shaped apically) faces glabrate to silky-pilose and/or densely stipitate-glandular. Receptacles slightly convex, pitted, epaleate. Ray florets 8-35, pistillate, fertile; corollasyellow.Disc florets 15-60, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, ± ampliate (glabrate, hairs minute and usually only near base of limbs, rarely sparsely to moderately long pilose on much of limbs), tubes shorter than narrowly funnelformthroats, lobes 5, erect to spreading, deltate (glabrous or strigose, rarely sparsely long-pilose) ; style-branch appendages deltate (papillate). Cypselae (often dark) fusiform, sometimes slightly compressed, sometimes slightly falcate, 8-10-ribbed, faces sparsely to densely strigose; pappipersistent, in (3-) 4 series, outer of linear to
linear-triangular, barbellate or erose-fimbrillate scales (0.3-1.4 mm, length 5-20% longer inner), inner 2-3 series of 25-50 light tan to light rust, unequal, barbellate, apically attenuate or weakly clavate bristles. x = 9.[3][more]
Psiadia is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Psilactis
Annuals or biennials [perennials], 15-150 cm (taprooted). Stemserect or weakly ascending, simple, glabrate to densely hairy and glandular.Leaves:basal and cauline (basal and proximal cauline withering and falling by flowering) ; alternate; petiolate, distalsessile; basal blades 1-nerved, obovate to linear-oblanceolate; proximal cauline blades lanceolate, elliptic, or obovate to linear-oblanceolate, marginsentire, coarsely toothed or pinnatelylobed, faces appressed-hairy; distal blades ovate to lanceolate to linear, smaller, margins entire, faces stipitate-glandular and/or appressed-hairy. Headsradiate, borne in loosely corymbiform arrays. Involucresturbinate to hemispheric, (2-9 ×) 4-18 mm.Phyllaries 30-45 in 2-3 series, (reflexed in fruit) 1-nerved (flat), oblong or lanceolate to linear, equal or unequal, herbaceous, bases usually indurate, margins scarious, herbaceous faces stipitate-glandular.Receptacles flat to convex, pitted to verrucose, epaleate. Ray florets 10-70, pistillate, fertile; corollaswhite to blue or purple (tightly coiled at maturity). Disc florets 15-150, bisexual, fertile (pappose) ; corollas yellow, lobes often purple, tubes shorter than funnelformthroats, lobes 5, erect, deltate to lanceolate (glabrous or sparsely appressed-hairy). Cypselae: of ray fusiform to obovoid, of disc fusiform
to clavate or obovoid, compressed, 5-18-nerved, faces sparsely to densely appressed-hairy (disc glabrate or glabrous in P. heterocarpa) ; pappi: ray 0; disc persistent, of 20-50, white to tawny, unequal, barbellate, apicallyattenuatebristles in 1-2 series.x = 3, 4, 9.[4][more]
Pteronia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Rodgersia
Rodgersia is a genus of flowering plants in the Saxifragaceae family. Rodgersia are herbaceous perennials. [more]
Scurrula
Shrubs parasitic, base often with epicorticalroots, most young parts usually with dense stellate and sometimes also verticillatehairs. Leaves oppositeor subopposite, pinnately veined. Inflorescencesaxillary or at leafless node, racemes or sometimes umbels; 1 bractsubtending each flower, usually scale-like. Flowersbisexual, 4-merous, zygomorphic.Calyxpyriform or turbinate, base attenuate, limbannular, persistent.Mature flower budtubular.Corollasympetalous, curved, basalportioninflated, split along 1 side at anthesis, tipellipsoid or ovoid, lobesallreflexed toward the side away from the split.Stamensinserted at base of corolla lobes; filaments short; anthers 4-loculed, sometimes multilocellate. Pollen graintrilobate in polarview.Ovary 1-loculed; placentationbasal.Stylefiliform, 4-angled; stigma only slightly enlarged and capitate.Berry turbinate, clavate, or pyriform, base narrow or often attenuate into stipe, exocarp leathery, pubescent or glabrous.[5][more]
Solidago
The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae. [more]
Stenactis
Symphyotrichum
Symphyotrichum is a genus of about 90 species of herbaceous annual and perennial plants in the composite family (Asteraceae) that were formerly treated within the genus Aster. The majority are endemic in North America, but several species also occur in the West Indies, Central and South America, as well as in eastern Eurasia. Furthermore, many species have been introduced to Europe as garden specimens, most notably the New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) and the New York aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii). [more]
Taxillus
Shrubs parasitic, most young parts usually with dense stellate and/or verticillatehairs, rarely glabrous (in T. delavayi). Leaves oppositeoralternate, pinnately veined. Inflorescencesaxillary, umbels or rarely short, irregularracemes, 2-5-flowered; 1 bractsubtending each flower, usually scale-like. Flowersbisexual, 4[or 5]-merous, zygomorphic.Calyxellipsoid or ovoid, rarely subglobose, base not attenuate, limbannular, entire or denticulate, persistent.Mature flower budtubular, tip ellipsoid or ovoid.Corollasympetalous, slightly curved, basalportion ± inflated, split along 1 side at anthesis, lobesallreflexed toward the side away from the split.Stamensinserted at base of corolla lobes; filaments short to almost absent; anthers 4-loculed, sometimes multilocellate. Pollen graintrilobate or semilobate in polarview.Ovary 1-loculed; placentationbasal.Stylefiliform, 4- or 5-angled; stigma usually capitate.Berry ellipsoid or ovoid, rarely globose, exocarp leathery, verrucose or granular, rarely smooth, pubescent or glabrous, base rounded.[6][more]
The Foamflowers (Tiarella) are a popular genus of wildflower and garden plants. They belong to the Saxifrage family (Saxifragaceae). Some species are: [more]
Yushania is a genus with 6 species of spreading thornless bamboos. They are found in the Himalaya at moderate to high altitudes, up to 3000 m but usually lower, and in Taiwan and Africa. They are evergreen and reach 2 to 10 m tall. [more]
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