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Asteroideae

(Subfamily)

Overview

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A Subfamily in the Kingdom Plantae.

Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Asteroideae is a member of the Family Compositae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Asteroideae:

The Subfamily Asteroideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Aaronsohnia

Aaronsohnia is a genus in the family Asteraceae, native to mainly non-salty steppes and deserts in North Africa and Middle East. It was named in 1927 after the agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn by the botanists Otto Warburg (1859?1938) and Alexander Eig (1894?1938) [more]

Abelia

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Abrotanella

Abrotanella is a genus in the family Asteraceae, of about 20 species, native to New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and temperate South America. [more]

Acaulimalva

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Aceras

Xenophrys aceras is a species of amphibian in the Megophryidae family. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. [more]

Achillea

Achillea () is a genus of about 85 flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae, commonly referred to as yarrow. They occur in Europe and temperate areas of Asia. A few grow in North America. These plants typically have frilly, hairy, aromatic leaves. [more]

Acineta

Acineta, abbreviated as Acn in horticultural trade, is a small genus belonging to the orchid family (Orchidaceae). The name is derived from the Greek word 'akinetos' (immobile), referring to the rigid labellum (lip). [more]

Acmella

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Aconogonon

Herbs, perennial; roots woody. Stems ascending to erect, glabrous or pubescent to pilose or tomentose. Leaves deciduous, mostly cauline, alternate, petiolate or sessile; ocrea persistent or deciduous, chartaceous; blade narrowly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire, sometimes irregularly undulate. Inflorescences terminal, subterminal, or axillary, racemelike or paniclelike; peduncle present or essentially absent. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual, 1-5 per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike or not; perianth nonaccrescent, creamy or greenish to yellowish white or pink, rotate, glabrous; tepals 5, connate ca. 4 their length, petaloid, slightly to distinctly dimorphic, outer 2 smaller than inner 3; stamens 8; filaments distinct, free or adnate to perianth tube, glabrous; anthers yellow to pink or reddish purple, ovate to elliptic; styles 3, erect or spreading, distinct or connate proximally; stigmas capitate. Achenes includedor exserted, yellowish or dark brown, unwinged, 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds: embryo usually curved. x = 8, 10, 11.[1] [more]

Adelostigma

Adelostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. [more]

Adenostemma

Adenostemma is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Adenostyles

Adenostyles, is a large genus of to a flowering plants in the sunflower family Asteraceae, and of the constantly changing tribe Senecioneae. Adenostyles occur in the temperate climates of the northern hemisphere, mainly in Europe and Asia minor. [more]

Aeginetia

Herbs fleshy. Stems very short, branched or not. Flowers large, solitary or clustered at stem apex. Bractlets absent. Pedicel very long, erect. Calyx spathelike, apex acute or obtuse-rounded. Corolla tubular or campanulate, indistinctly bilabiate; upper lip 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes subrounded. Stamens 4, included; anthers adherent, 1 cell fertile, another reduced into a spur. Carpels 2; ovary usually 1-locular and parietal placentas 2 or 4, occasionally imperfectly 2-locular and placentas axile. Style slightly curved; stigma fleshy, peltate. Capsule dehiscing by 2 valves. Seeds numerous; testa reticulate.[2] [more]

Aethionema

Aethionema is a genus of flowering plants, within the family Brassicaceae, subfamily . The genus is collectively known as the stonecresses. [more]

Ageratina

Perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs [trees], mostly 20-220 cm. Stems usually erect, rarely scandent, sparsely to densely branched. Leaves cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate) ; petiolate; blades 3(-5) -nerved from bases, usually deltate, lanceolate, ovate, rhombic, or triangular, sometimes orbiculate, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or serrate, faces glabrous or hispidulous, pilose, or puberulent, sometimes gland-dotted (A. occidentalis, A. adenophora). Heads discoid, usually in compact, (terminal and axillary) corymbiform arrays, sometimes borne singly. Involucres campanulate, 3-6 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 8-30 in 2(-3) series, 0- or 2-nerved, lanceolate to linear, ± equal (herbaceous). Florets 10-60; corollas white or lavender, throats obconic to campanulate (lengths 1.5-2 times diams.) ; styles: bases sometimes enlarged, glabrous, branches linear, seldom distally dilated. Receptacles convex (glabrous or hairy), epaleate. Cypselae prismatic or ± fusiform, usually 5-ribbed, scabrellous and/or gland-dotted; pappi usually persistent, sometimes fragile, rarely falling, of 5-40, barbellulate bristles in 1 series. x = 17.[3] [more]

Ageratum

Annuals and perennials, mostly 20-120 cm. Stems often decumbent (rooting at proximal nodes), sparsely to densely branched. Leaves cauline; all or mostly opposite; petiolate; blades mostly 1-nerved, deltate to ovate, or elliptic to lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, faces glabrous or ± pilose, puberulent, or strigoso-hispid, sometimes gland-dotted. Heads discoid, in dense to open, cymiform to corymbiform arrays. Involucres campanulate, 3-6 mm. Phyllaries persistent, 30-40 in 2-3 series, usually 2-nerved, lanceolate, ± equal (often indurate, margins scarious). Receptacles conic, epaleate [paleate]. Florets 20-125; corollas white or bluish to lavender, throats ± campanulate (lengths 2 times diams.) ; styles: bases not enlarged, glabrous, branches ± linear to clavate (usually papillose and dilated distally). Cypselae prismatic, 4-5-ribbed, glabrous or sparsely strigoso-hispidulous; pappi persistent, of 5-6 aristate scales, or coroniform, or 0. x = 10.[4] [more]

Ajania

Ajania is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. The genus is named after the russian port city Ayan on the coast of the sea of okhotsk. [more]

Alcalthaea

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Allopterigeron

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Amblyocarpum

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Ambrosia

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia (Greek: ) is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods (or demigods), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth. [more]

Ambrosinia

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Ammobium

Ammobium alatum (Winged Everlasting) is a perennial Asteraceae native to Eastern Australia. [more]

Ammocharis

Ammocharis is a genus in the Amaryllidaceae family (subfamily Amaryllidoideae) which includes 6 species distributed in Africa. The plant grows as a succulent, above-ground bulb, preferring seasonally wet, hot, sandy soils and full sun. [more]

Amyema

Amyema is a genus of semi-parasitic shrubs (mistletoes) which occur in Malesia and Australia. [more]

Anacyclus

Anacyclus is a genus of plants in the Asteraceae family. [more]

Anaphalis

Anaphalis (A-n?-pha-lis) is a genus within the composite family whose members are commonly known by the name Pearly everlasting. There are around 110 species within the genus with the vast majority being native to central and southern Asia. There is one species native to North America that is fairly well known and popular in cultivation, namely the Western Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea). [more]

Anarthrophyllum

Anarthrophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. [more]

Anarthropteris

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Ancistrochilus

Ancistrochilus is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), comprising only 2 species. The name is derived from the Greek words ankistron ("hook") and cheilos ("lip"), referring to the form of the lip. [more]

Ancistrorhynchus

Ancistrorhynchus is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family Orchidaceae. [more]

Andersonia

Andersonia may refer to: [more]

Anemanthele

Anemanthele is a monotypic genus of grass indigenous to New Zealand. Its only species is Anemanthele lessoniana, often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass. This is a naturally rare grass in the wild but it is widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant. It is marginal in zone 8, going dormant and deciduous in cold winters, but usually an evergreen to semi-evergreen. Good green arching foliage to 3 feet in USDA 8, with highlights of orange, copper, and gold, especially in drier soils. Excellent backlit. [more]

Angianthus

Angianthus is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. [more]

Anguloa

Anguloa, commonly known as tulip orchids, is a small orchid genus closely related to Lycaste. Its abbreviation in horticulture is Ang. This genus was described by Jos? Antonio Pav?n and Hip?lito Ruiz L?pez in 1798. They named it in honor of , a contemporary Peruvian who collected orchids as a hobby and by this way had become quite knowledgeable about these plants, assisting the botanists in their work. [more]

Anisopappus

Anisopappus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Antennaria

Antennaria is a genus of about 45 species of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with one species (A. chilensis) in temperate southern South America; the highest species diversity is in North America. Common names include catsfoot or cat's-foot, pussytoes and everlasting. [more]

Anthemis

Anthemis (?n-the-mis) is a genus of about 100 species of aromatic herbs in the Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum, and like that genus, known by the common name chamomile; some species are also called dog-fennel or mayweed. However, Mayweed is improperly used for this genus since Mayweed refers to the Matricaria genus. Anthemis are native to the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia east to Iran. A number of species have also become naturalized in England/United Kingdom and in other parts of the world. [more]

Archibaccharis

Archibaccharis is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. [more]

Arecastrum

Syagrus is a genus of 30 to 42 species of Arecaceae (palms), native to South America, with one species endemic to the Lesser Antilles. The genus is closely related to the Cocos, or coconut genus, and many Syagrus species produce edible seeds similar to the coconut. [more]

Argylia

Argylia is a genus of flowering plants that is a member of the family Bignoniaceae. [more]

Argyranthemum

Argyranthemum (the dill daisies) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus are sometimes also placed in the genus Chrysanthemum. [more]

Argyreia

Argyreia nervosa is a perennial climbing vine that is native to the Indian subcontinent and introduced to numerous areas worldwide, including Hawaii, Africa and the Caribbean. Though it can be invasive, it is often prized for its aesthetic value. Common names include Hawaiian Baby Woodrose, Adhoguda ??????? or Vidhara ?????? (Sanskrit), Elephant Creeper and Woolly Morning Glory. There are two botanical varieties: Argyreia nervosa var. nervosa described here, and Argyrea nervosa var. speciosa, a species used in ayurvedic medicine, but with little to no psychoactive value. [more]

Argyroxiphium

Argyroxiphium is a small genus of five species in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. Its members are known by the common name of silversword or greensword due to their long, narrow leaves and the silvery hairs on some species. It belongs to a larger radiation of over 50 species, including the physically different genera Dubautia and Wilkesia. This grouping is often referred to as the silversword alliance. [more]

Armillaria

Honey fungus, or Armillaria or ?penky (Ukrainian: ), is a genus of parasitic fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly lumped together as A. mellea. Armillarias are long lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the world. The largest single organism (of the species Armillaria solidipes) covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.8 km2) and is thousands of years old. Some species of Armillaria are bioluminescent and may be responsible for the phenomena known as foxfire and perhaps will o' the wisp. [more]

Arnica

Arnica (English pronunciation: ) is a genus with about 30 perennial, herbaceous species, belonging to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The genus name Arnica may be derived from the Greek arna, "lamb", in reference to the soft, hairy leaves. [more]

Arnoglossum

Arnoglossum or by its common name Indian plantain is a genus of the family Asteraceae and the tribe Senecioneae whose genera have been misapplied and renamed. In the case of Arnoglossum, the genus name Cacalia has been misapplied. The name Arnoglossum is from the Greek word "arnos" meaning lamb, and "glossum" meaning tongue and is the ancient name for some species of Plantago. [more]

Artemisia

Artemisia can mean: [more]

Asarina

Asarina is a genus comprising 16 species of strongly sprawling or twining perennials, native to Mexico, southwestern USA, and southern Europe. Originally placed in the Scrophulariaceae (figwort family), they have more recently been moved to the Plantaginaceae (plantain family). Leaves are often triangular, toothed, downy and hairy with twining flower stalks. Flowers are attractive trumpet-shaped with broad green sepals and pale throat-spotted corolla in varying sizes, resemble snapdragons, and may be white, yellow, pink, purple, and shades in between. Some species are often placed in the genus Maurandya. [more]

Asphodeline

Asphodeline is a genus of perennial plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae. From the Mediterranean, it has fleshy roots and fragrant, starry flowers that are yellow in May to June. It grows up to 4 ft in well-drained soil. Its foliage is blue-green and grassy, with tall, narrow flower spikes. It takes at least three years before newly-planted seedlings flower. The yellow flowers always make an interesting addition to the late-spring garden. The individual flowers on the spikes open in a seemingly random order, and do not last long, being replaced quickly by other flowers. [more]

Asphodelus

Asphodelus is a genus of mainly perennial plants native to western, central and southern Europe, but now spread worldwide. Asphodels are popular garden plants, which grow in well-drained soils with abundant natural light. Now placed in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, like many lilioid monocots, the genus was formerly placed in the lily family (Liliaceae). [more]

Aster

Aster can refer to one of the following: [more]

Asteriscus

Asteriscus may refer to: [more]

Astilbe

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]

Athanasia

Athanasia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. [more]

Athrixia

Athrixia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. [more]

Athyrium

Athyrium (Lady-fern) is a genus of about 180 species of terrestrial ferns, with a cosmopolitan distribution. [more]

Aubrieta

Aubrieta (also Aubretia) is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. The genus is named after Claude Aubriet, a French flower-painter. It originates from southern Europe east to central Asia but is now a common garden escape throughout Europe. It is a low, spreading plant, hardy, evergreen and perennial, with small violet, pink or white flowers, and inhabits rocks and banks. It prefers light, well-drained soil, is tolerant of a wide pH range, and can grow in partial shade or full sun. [more]

Ayapana

Ayapana is a genus of 14 species of tropical American perennial herbs, which have at times been classified in the genus Eupatorium. The leaves, at least of Ayapana triplinervis, are commonly used medicinally. [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]

Baeria

Lasthenia, commonly known as goldfields, is a genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. The genus is named after Lasthenia, a cross-dressing female pupil of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. [more]

Baeriopsis

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Bahia

Bahia (Portuguese pronunciation: ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after S?o Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, or more properly, S?o Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, and is located at the junction of the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of All Saints, first seen by European sailors in 1501. The name "bahia" is an archaic spelling of the Portuguese word ba?a, meaning "bay". [more]

Balbisia

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Balsamorhiza

Balsamorhiza is a genus of plants in the sunflower family known commonly as balsamroots. These are perennials with fleshy taproots and caudices bearing erect stems and large, basal leaves. Atop the tall stems are showy yellow sunflower-like blooms. Balsamroots are native to western North America. There are about twelve species plus many common hybrids. [more]

Bartlettina

Bartlettina is a genus of about 37 species of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family. They are native to tropical America although one species, B. sordida, has escaped from cultivation in places in New Zealand. [more]

Basutica

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Beallara

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [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]

Bencomia

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Berardia

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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]

Bidens

Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It contains about 200 species. The common names beggarticks, black jack, burr marigolds, cobbler's pegs, Spanish needles, stickseeds, tickseeds and tickseed sunflowers refer to the achene burrs on the seeds of this genus, most of which are barbed. The generic name refers to the same fact; it means "two-tooth", from Latin bis "two" + dens "tooth". [more]

Bifrenaria

Bifrenaria, abbreviated Bif. in horticultural trade, is a genus of plant in family Orchidaceae. It contains 20 species found in Panama, Trinidad and South America. There are no known uses for them, but their abundant, and at first glance artificial, flowers, make them favorites of orchid growers. [more]

Biscutella

Biscutella is a genus of about 46 species of flowering plants of Brassicaceae or Cruciferae family, according to Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I. 2003 . [more]

Blepharispermum

Blepharispermum is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Blumea

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Blumeopsis

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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]

Bombycilaena

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Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea () is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province). Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was first described by Philibert Commer?on, a French botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation, and first published for him by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789. It is possible that the plants were first discovered by Jeanne Bar?, Commer?on's lover and assistant whom he snuck on board (despite regulations) disguised as a man (and who thus became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe). [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]

Brachyglottis

Brachyglottis is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family; a genus which has existed since November 29, 1775 when Johann Reinhold Forster & Georg Forster created the genus with this name from the Greek words brachus meaning short and glottis meaning "the vocal apparatus of the larynx" or tongue referring to the size of the ray florets. [more]

Brachyloma

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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]

Brickellia

Brickellia is a genus of about 100 species of plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), known commonly as brickellbushes. They are found in North America, Mexico, and Central America. Many species are native to the American southwest, especially Texas. Brickellia is among the more basal lineages of the Eupatorieae and should not be assigned to a subtribe pending further research. [more]

Bulbine

Bulbine is a genus of plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, named for the bulb-shaped tuber shown by many of the species. (Formerly it was placed in the Liliaceae.) Bulbine is found chiefly in Southern Africa, with few species extending into tropical Africa and a few species in Australia. [more]

Buphtalmum

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Buphthalmum

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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]

Cacalia

The genus Cacalia L. is a nomen rejiciendum (rejected name) under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Its species now reside in a few different genera. [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]

Calandrinia

The plant genus Calandrinia contains many species of purslane, including the redmaids. The genus was named for Jean Louis Calandrini, an 18th century Swiss botanist. It includes around 150 species of annual herbs which bear colorful flowers in shades of red to purple and white. Plants of this genus are native to Australia, Chile, and western North America. [more]

Calceolaria

Calceolaria L. (), also called Lady's purse, Slipper flower and Pocketbook flower, or Slipperwort, is a genus of plants in the Calceolariaceae family, sometimes classified in Scrophulariaceae by some authors. This genus consists of about 388 species of shrubs, lianas and herbs, and the geographic range extends from Patagonia to central Mexico, with its distribution centre in Andean region. Calceolaria in Latin means shoemaker. [more]

Calea

CALEA may refer to: [more]

Calendula

Calendula ( Ca-l?n-du-la), pot marigold, is a genus of about 12?20 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to the area from Macaronesia east through the Mediterranean region to Iran. Calendula should not be confused with other plants that are also known as marigolds, such as corn marigold, desert marigold, marsh marigold, or plants of the genus Tagetes. [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]

Calotis

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Campuloclinium

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Cancrinia

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Cancriniella

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Carlemannia

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Carpesium

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Carruanthus

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Cassinia

Cassinia is a large genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, most or all of which are native to the Southern Hemisphere. It was named for French botanist Alexandre de Cassini. [more]

Celmisia

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]

Centropogon

Centropogon is a plant genus in the family Campanulaceae. Some place this in the Lobeliaceae, if recognised. [more]

Chamaemeles

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Chamaemelum

Annuals or perennials, 5-20(-35+) cm, (aromatic). Stems usually 1, erect, ascending, or prostrate, usually branched, glabrous or glabrate, puberulent, or villous to strigoso-sericeous (hairs basifixed). Leaves mostly cauline (at flowering) ; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades oblong, ovate, elliptic, or spatulate, 1-3-pinnately lobed (ultimate lobes narrowly spatulate to linear or filiform, apices apiculate), ultimate margins entire, faces glabrous or glabrate, puberulent, or villous to strigoso-sericeous. Heads radiate or discoid, borne singly or in lax corymbiform arrays. Involucres hemispheric or broader, 6-10 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 22-45+ in 3-4+ series (sometimes reflexed in fruit), mostly ovate to oblong, unequal, margins and apices (colorless, brownish, or greenish) scarious. Receptacles hemispheric to conic, paleate; paleae weakly navicular to ± flat (medially chartaceous, margins scarious, apices rounded). Ray florets 0 or 12-21+, pistillate and fertile or styliferous and sterile; corollas white, laminae oblong (often marcescent, reflexed in fruit). Disc florets 100-200+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes ± cylindric (somewhat dilated, bases saccate, weakly clasping apices of cypselae), throats funnelform, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae ± obovoid, weakly obcompressed, ribs or nerves (weak) : 2 lateral, 1 adaxial, faces finely striate, glabrous (pericarps with myxogenic cells in longitudinal rows, without resin sacs) ; pappi 0. x = 9.[5] [more]

Chamomilla

Matricaria chamomilla or German chamomile, also spelled camomile, is an annual plant of the composite family Asteraceae. Synonyms are: Chamomilla chamomilla, Chamomilla recutita (correct name according to the Flora Europaea), Matricaria recutita, and Matricaria suaveolens. [more]

Cheirolophus

The Maltese Centaury or Maltese Rock-centaury (Cheirolophus crassifolius) is a species of in the Asteraceae family. It is monotypic within the genus Cheirolophus. It is the national plant of Malta, where it is endemic. Its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation and rocky shores. It is threatened by habitat loss. [more]

Chionodoxa

Chionodoxa (Glory-of-the-snow) is a genus of eight bulbous perennials in the family Hyacinthaceae. The blue, white or pink flowers appear early in the year making them valuable garden ornamentals. [more]

Chionohebe

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Chionoscilla

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Chondropetalum

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Christella

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Chromolaena

Perennials or shrubs (sometimes scandent), 20-250 cm (fibrous-rooted). Stems erect or clambering, sparsely to densely branched. Leaves cauline; opposite [alternate, verticillate]; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from bases, mostly deltate to ovate or elliptic, sometimes linear, margins dentate or lobed, faces glabrous or puberulent to tomentose, sometimes gland-dotted. Heads discoid, in corymbiform to thyrsiform arrays. Involucres cylindric [campanulate to hemispheric], 2-7 mm diam. Phyllaries usually readily falling (at least in fruit), 18-65+ in 4-6+ series, 3-5-nerved, ovate to oblong or lanceolate, unequal (papery or herbaceous). Florets [6-]15-40[-75]; corollas white or purple to blue, lavender, or reddish, throats cylindric (lengths 3-4 times diams.) ; styles: bases not enlarged, glabrous, branches linear to linear-clavate. Receptacles flat to convex, paleate or epaleate. Cypselae prismatic, (3-) 5-ribbed, scabrellous, usually gland-dotted as well; pappi persistent, of ca. 40 barbellate bristles in 1 series. x = 10.[6] [more]

Chrysanthellum

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Chrysanthemoides

Shrubs or trees (evergreen), 50-300+ cm. Stems erect, glabrous or ± tomentose [spiny]. Leaves ± petiolate; blades ovate or elliptic to orbiculate, obovate, or oblanceolate, margins usually denticulate, sometimes entire, faces usually ± arachnose and glabrate, sometimes woolly or glabrous. Heads borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays. Involucres ± hemispheric or broader, 9-12+ mm diam. Phyllaries 12-24+ in 2-3 series, deltate or lanceolate to ovate, oblong, or linear. Receptacles flat to convex. Ray florets 5-13 in 1 series; corollas yellow, laminae ± ovate to elliptic or linear. Disc florets 30-80+, functionally staminate; corollas yellow, tubes (± pilosulous) shorter than ± campanulate throats. Cypselae ± globose, fleshy (blue-black, becoming brown, drupelike). x = 10.[7] [more]

Chrysanthemopsis

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Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemums, often called mums or chrysanths, are of the genus (Chrysanthemum) constituting approximately 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae which is native to Asia and northeastern Europe. [more]

Chrysocoma

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Chrysogonum

Perennials, 2-30(-50) cm (aerial stems from fibrous-rooted rhizomes to 5 cm). Stems erect to erect-ascending (flowering) or prostrate (vegetative stolons), branched from bases or ± throughout (villous). Leaves basal and cauline; opposite; petiolate; blades elliptic-ovate to deltate-ovate, bases cordate or truncate to cuneate, margins crenate, faces hairy. Heads radiate, borne singly or in pairs. Involucres cupulate-hemispheric, 7-10 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent (outer), 8-10 in 2 series (outer spreading, oblong-oblanceolate, foliaceous, inner erect, greenish, smaller, ± scarious). Receptacles flat to shallowly convex, paleate (paleae oblanceolate, scarious). Ray florets 5(-6), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow. Disc florets 25-50, functionally staminate; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae (blackish brown) strongly obflattened, obovoid to obovate (each basally adnate to 1 inner phyllary, 3 paleae, and 3 disc florets, the "cypsela-complexes" falling as units) ; pappi persistent, coroniform (asymmetric). x = 16.[8] [more]

Chrysopsis

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]

Chrysosplenium

Chrysosplenium (Golden Saxifrage, or sometimes hyphenated, Golden-saxifrage) is a genus of about 55-65 species of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and also South America, with the highest species diversity in eastern Asia. [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]

Chysis

Chysis is a of orchids (family Orchidaceae), consisting of about 5 species which originate from Mexico to Peru. Only two or three of these are commonly found in cultivation. The genus is abbreviated Chy in trade journals. [more]

Cimicifuga

Cimicifuga (bugbane or cohosh) is a genus of between 12-18 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [more]

Cineraria

Cineraria is now generally treated as a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to southern Africa. The genus includes herbaceous plants and small subshrubs. [more]

Cirrhopetalum

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Cistus

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Cladanthus

Cladanthus is a genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. [more]

Clytostoma

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Cochlearia

Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia species; a.k.a. Scurvy grass, Scurvygrass, or Spoonwort) is a genus of about 30 species of annual and perennial herbs in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. They are widely distributed in temperate and arctic areas of the northern hemisphere, most commonly found in coastal regions, on cliff-tops and salt marshes where their high tolerance of salt enables them to avoid competition from larger, but less salt-tolerant plants; they also occur in alpine habitats in mountains and tundra. [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]

Coelia

Coelia is a of orchids (family Orchidaceae). [more]

Colchicum

Colchicum is a genus of flowering plants containing around sixty species of perennial plants which grow from corms. It is a member of family Colchicaceae, and is native to West Asia and part of the Mediterranean coast. [more]

Colliguaja

Colliguaja is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Collospermum

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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]

Conophthorus

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Conostephium

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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]

Cooperia

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Corchoropsis

Annual herbs; stems stellate or hairy with other types of hairs. Stipules minute, caducous; leaf blade simple, basal veins 3, margin dentate or serrate, stellate hairy. Inflorescence axillary, cymose, 1-3-flowered. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate. Petals 5, yellow, obovate. Stamens usually 15, in 5 groups of 3 alternating with staminodes; staminodes 5, spatulate-linear. Ovary densely tomentose or glabrous, 3-celled; ovules many per locule; style subulate; stigma truncate, slightly 3-lobed. Capsule cylindric, 3-valved. Seeds many.[9] [more]

Coreopsis

Tickseed is the common name for the plant Coreopsis, a group of 35 species of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae and Genus Coreopsis. Twenty-eight species are native to the North America and the others come from Central and South America. The flowers are usually yellow with a toothed tip. The name is derived from the Greek word koris, meaning Bedbug. The plants are also popularly called "Calliopsis." [more]

Cornus

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Cosmos

Annuals [perennials or subshrubs], 30-250 cm. Stems usually 1, erect or ascending, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves mostly cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 1-3-pinnately lobed [undivided], ultimate margins usually entire, faces usually glabrous, sometimes glabrate, hispid, puberulent, or scabridulous. Heads radiate, borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. Calyculi of [5-]8 basally connate, ± linear to subulate, herbaceous (striate) bractlets. Involucres hemispheric or subhemispheric [cylindric], 3-15 mm diam. Phylla­ries persistent, [5-]8 in ± 2 series, distinct, lanceolate, lance-oblong, lance-ovate, or oblong, ± equal, membranous or herbaceous, margins ± scarious. Receptacles flat, paleate; paleae falling, linear, flat or slightly concave-convex, scarious (entire). Ray florets [0, 5] 8 (more in "double" cultivars), neuter; corollas white to pink or purple, or yellow to red-orange. Disc florets 10-20[-80+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow [orange] (at least distally), tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 5, ± deltate (staminal filaments hairy near anthers; style branches linear, flattened, thicker distally, hirtellous, appendages relatively slender). Cypselae (dark brown or black) relatively slender, quadrangular-cylindric or -fusiform [outer somewhat obcompressed], sometimes slightly arcuate, attenuate-beaked, not winged [winged], faces glabrous or hispid to scabridulous or ± setose, sometimes papillate, usually with 1 groove; pappi persistent [falling], of 2-4[-8] retrorsely [antrorsely] barbed awns, sometimes 0. x = 12.[10] [more]

Cotula

Cotula is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It includes about 55 species of plants known generally as water buttons or buttonweeds. Most are endemic to South Africa. [more]

Crabbea

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Crambe

Crambe is a genus of Brassicaceae native to Europe, southwest and central Asia and eastern Africa. It includes among its species seakale (Crambe maritima), grown as a leaf vegetable, Crambe cordifolia which is grown as an herbaceous border perennial, and Crambe abyssinica, which is grown for an oil from the seeds that has similar characteristics to whale oil. [more]

Craspedia

Craspedia is a genus of commonly known as billy buttons or woollyheads. They are native to Australia and New Zealand where they grow in a variety of habitats from sea level to the alps. The genus is found in every state of Australia except the Northern Territory. In New Zealand, Craspedia is found south from about East Cape in the North Island to Stewart Island. It also occurs on Campbell Island 660 km S of Stewart Island, and the Chatham Islands, 800 km E of East Cape. Craspedia are rosette-forming herbs with secondarily compound capitula (glomerules) that are borne on erect, unbranched scapes. The glomerules or flower-heads are hemispherical to spherical (like pom poms) and are formed of a massive aggregation of tiny flowers (florets). Most species are perennial with one species recorded as annual. Twenty three-species are currently accepted, six from New Zealand and 17 from Australia. Leaves have considerable variation in form, they range in color from white through to grass green, and are often covered in fine hairs. [more]

Crassocephalum

Crassocephalum is a genus the common names of whose members include ragleaf, thickhead, and bologi. Several species are raised as leaf vegetables and used for medicine, especially in West Africa. [more]

Cremanthodium

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Critonia

Critonia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Cryptostephanus

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Cyclosorus

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Cylindrocline

Cylindrocline is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Cymbolaena

Dahlia

Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. A member of the Asteraceae or Compositae, dicotyledonous plants, related species include the sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum and zinnia. There are at least 36 species of dahlia, with hybrids commonly grown as garden plants. Flower forms are variable, with one head per stem; these can be as small as 2 in (5.1 cm) in diameter or up to 1 ft (30 cm) ("dinner plate"). This great variety results from dahlias being octoploids?that is, they have eight sets of homologous chromosomes, whereas most plants have only two. In addition, dahlias also contain many transposons - genetic pieces that move from place to place upon an allele - which contributes to their manifesting such great diversity. [more]

Daphniphyllum

Daphniphyllum is a genus of in the family Daphniphyllaceae, including about 25 species, all evergreen shrubs and trees native to east and southeast Asia. In older classifications the genus was treated in the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Davallia

Davallia (deersfoot fern, hare's foot fern) is a genus of about 40 species of ferns in the family Davalliaceae. They are epiphytic ferns, with fronds arising from long aerial rhizomes which grow on and over thick bark on trees or on rock crevices. [more]

Debregeasia

Shrubs or small trees, without stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate; stipules deciduous, intrapetiolar, connate, membranous, 2-cleft; leaf blade thinly papery or papery, 3-veined, often snow white or silvery tomentose abaxially, margin serrulate; cystoliths punctiform. Inflorescences axillary, densely capitate clusters of unisexual flowers (plants monoecious or dioecious) ; glomerules solitary or pairs of dichotomously branched cymes. Male flowers: perianth lobes (3 or) 4(or 5), slightly connate, valvate, often depressed-globose in bud, stamens (3 or) 4(or 5) ; filaments inflexed in bud; rudimentary ovary obovoid, woolly at base. Female flowers: perianth tube obovoid or jug-shaped, mouth contracted, very minutely 3- or 4-toothed, in fruit often enlarged, fleshy, and adnate to ovary, rarely membranous and free; staminodes absent; style short; stigma penicillate, with tuft of long hairs; ovule orthotropous. Achenes somewhat drupaceous, obovoid, slightly compressed, closely enclosed by often fleshy, adnate perianth. Seeds with endosperm; cotyledons small, broad.[11] [more]

Dendranthema

Chrysanthemums, often called mums or chrysanths, are of the genus (Chrysanthemum) constituting approximately 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae which is native to Asia and northeastern Europe. [more]

Dendriopoterium

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Dendrocacalia

Dendrophorbium

Dendrophorbium is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Desmazeria

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Diascia

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Dichrocephala

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Didymosperma

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Dimorphotheca

Annuals [perennials, subshrubs, shrubs], 5-40[150+] cm. Stems procumbent to erect [prostrate], glabrous or arachnose to piloso-hirtellous and/or stipitate-glandular. Leaves ± sessile or petiolate; blades oblong or oblanceolate to linear, margins entire or dentate [pinnately lobed], faces sparsely arachnose and/or stipitate-glandular. Heads borne singly. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric or broader, 5-20+ mm diam. Phyllaries 15-21 in 2(-3) series, lanceolate to lance-linear. Receptacles flat to conic. Ray florets 10-21+ in ± 1 series; corollas usually yellow to orange or white, sometimes purplish abaxially and/or at bases or apices, laminae oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate. Disc florets 15-50+, bisexual, all or mostly fertile (inner sometimes functionally staminate) ; corollas whitish or yellow, red, or purplish, tubes much shorter than ± campanulate throats (lobes sometimes with terete or dilated appendages). Cypselae (ray) triquetrous-prismatic to clavate, ± tuberculate or ridged; (disc) compressed, often winged, ± smooth. x = 9.[12] [more]

Diogenesia

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Diosma

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Dipcadi

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Diplostephium

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]

Disporopsis

Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, sympodial, terrestrial. Rhizome horizontally creeping, terete or moniliform, fleshy. Stem usually arching, rarely erect, simple, glabrous. Leaves cauline, lateral and pseudoterminal, usually alternate, rarely subopposite, shortly petiolate, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, each a solitary flower or cluster of 2 to several flowers; bracts usually absent, rarely present. Flowers bisexual; pedicel articulate apically. Perianth campanulate; segments 6, imbricate, ± fleshy, proximally connate and forming a tube for up to 1/2 their length. Corona attached near apex of perianth tube, fleshy or membranous; lobes 6, alternate to or opposite perianth segments, apex often 2-cleft into lobelets, sometimes emarginate, rarely entire. Anthers 6, opposite perianth segments, attached at lobe sinus, lobelet sinus, or lobe apex of corona, dorsifixed, introrse. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules 4--6 per locule. Style short; stigma capitate to slightly 3-lobed. Fruit a berry, several seeded.[13] [more]

Doronicum

Doronicum is a genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. [more]

Dorycnium

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Dracaena

Dracaena can mean: [more]

Drimia

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Dubautia

Dubautia is a genus of flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It contains more species than the other two genera in the silversword alliance, including cushion plants, shrubs, trees, and lianas. [more]

Duhaldea

Dyssodia

Annuals [perennials], 10-30(-70+) cm. Stems erect to decumbent, branched from bases or throughout. Leaves cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate) ; blades (1-) 2-3-pinnatisect, primary lobes linear to linear-cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces puberulent (little, if at all, setaceous at bases, on teeth, or at tips of lobes, oil-glands submarginal). Heads radiate, borne singly or in 2s or 3s [pseudocephalia]. Calyculi of [0] 1-9 ± linear bractlets (lengths 1/2-1 phyllaries, bearing oil-glands). Involucres turbinate to campanulate [hemispheric], 5-10 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 6-12 in ± 2 series (distinct to bases or nearly so, oval-oblanceolate, each bearing 1-7 round to elliptic oil-glands). Receptacles convex, ± pitted (socket margins fimbrillate to setose), epaleate. Ray florets usually 5-8, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow-orange. Disc florets 12-50[-100+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange, tubes shorter than cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-deltate. Cypselae obpyramidal to obconic, subsericeous or glabrescent; pappi persistent, of 15-20 scales in ± 2 series (each scale comprising 5-10 basally connate, unequal bristles). x = 13.[14] [more]

Echinacea

Echinacea () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. The nine species it contains are commonly called purple coneflowers. They are endemic to eastern and central North America, where they are found growing in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas. They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming from early to late summer. The generic name is derived from the Greek word ?????? (echino), meaning "sea urchin," due to the spiny central disk. Some species are used in herbal medicines and some are cultivated in gardens for their showy flowers. A few species are of conservation concern.[citation needed] [more]

Eclipta

Annuals or perennials, 10-50(-70+) cm. Stems erect or decumbent, branched from bases and/or distally (sometimes rooting at proximal nodes). Leaves cauline; opposite; petiolate or sessile; blades (1- or 3-nerved) lanceolate to lance-linear, bases cuneate, margins serrate to subentire, faces sparsely scabrellous. Heads radiate, in loose, corymbiform arrays or borne singly. Involucres hemispheric, 3-5 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 8-12+ in 2-3 series (lanceolate to linear, subequal, thin-herbaceous, spreading in fruit). Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae linear to filiform, not conduplicate, falling with fruits). Ray florets 20-40 (in 2-3+ series), pistillate, fertile; corollas white or whitish. Disc florets 15-30+, bisexual, fertile; corollas white or whitish, tubes much shorter than ampliate, cylindric throats, lobes 4-5, ± deltate. Cypselae obcompressed, weakly 3-4-angled (not winged, epidermes usually corky and rugose to tuberculate) ; pappi persistent, coroniform (sometimes with 2 teeth). x = 11.[15] [more]

Elegia

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Elytropappus

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Emilia

Emilia may refer to any of the following: [more]

Encelia

Encelia is a genus of the plant family Asteraceae. It consists of shrubs (and one geophyte) of arid environments in southwestern North America and western South America. All have n = 18 chromosomes. With the exception of the South American species, all are obligate outcrossers. In cultivation, the species readily form fertile F1 hybrids, F2s, and backcrosses, but in natural areas of sympatry, F2s and backcrosses are absent or rare. [more]

Engleria

Epaltes

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Eremophila

Eremophila may refer to: [more]

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]

Eriobotrya

Eriobotrya is a genus of about ten species of large evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae, native to east and southeast Asia. By far the best known species is the Loquat, E. japonica, grown for its edible fruit. [more]

Eriocephalus

Eriocephalus is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Eriophyllum

Eriophyllum, commonly known as the woolly sunflower, is a genus of annual or herbaceous perennial plant native to western North America, with a concentration of narrow endemics in the California Floristic Province. [more]

Eriophyton

Herbs perennial, lanate. Roots thick, terete. Leaf blade rhombic to subcircular, lower stem leaves sometimes reduced, scalelike. Verticillasters 6-flowered, compact or basally widely spaced; bracteoles spinelike. Flowers sessile. Calyx broadly campanulate, ± transparent, 10-veined; teeth 5, subequal, triangular, apex acuminate. Corolla purplish to reddish, 2-lipped; tube included, without hairy annulus inside; upper lip broad, galeate, incurved, covering lower lip; lower lip subpatent, 3-lobed; middle lobe slightly larger than lateral lobes, emarginate to rounded; lateral lobes circular. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, apex dentate, ascending beneath upper lip. Posterior filaments basally thickened; anthers close together in pairs, cells 2, apex divaricate, confluent, villous. Style apex subequally 2-cleft, lobes subulate. Ovary glabrous. Nutlets broadly triquetrous, oblong, large, apex rounded, smooth.[16] [more]

Espeletia

Espeletia, commonly known as Frailej?n or Fraylej?n is a genus of perennial subshrubs, in the family Asteraceae. The genus, which is endemic mainly to Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, was first formally described by botanist Alexander Von Humboldt in 1801. The genus was named after the New Granada viceroy Jos? Manuel de Ezpeleta. [more]

Eucryphia

Eucryphia is a small genus of trees or large shrubs of the Antarctic flora, native to the south temperate regions of South America and coastal eastern Australia. Traditionally placed in a family of their own, the Eucryphiaceae, more recent classifications place them in the Cunoniaceae. There are seven species, two in South America and five in Australia, and several named hybrids. They are mostly evergreen though one species (E. glutinosa) is usually deciduous. [more]

Eupatorium

Eupatorium is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae, containing from 36 to 60 species depending on the classification system. Most are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 0.5?3 m tall. A few are shrubs. The genus is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most are commonly called bonesets, thoroughworts or snakeroots. The genus is named for Mithridates Eupator, king of Pontus. [more]

Euryops

Euryops is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Evax

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Farfugium

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Felicia

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]

Filaginella

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Filago

Annuals, (1-) 5-40 cm. Stems [0] 1, ± erect, or 2-7[-10+], ± ascending [prostrate]. Leaves cauline [basal]; alternate; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate [spatulate or ± round]. Heads in (dense, spheric [hemispheric]) glomerules of [2-]8-35+ in ± dichasiiform arrays [borne singly]. Involucres 0 or inconspicuous. Phyllaries usually 0, rarely 1-4, unequal (similar to paleae). Receptacles cylindric to clavate (heights [2-]5-15 times diams.), glabrous. Pistillate paleae (except usually innermost) ± persistent [falling], ± erect to ascending; bodies with 5+ nerves (nerves ± parallel, obscure), lanceolate to ovate, open to ± folded (each at most enfolding, not enclosing a floret) ; wings erect to recurved (apices acuminate to aristate). Innermost paleae usually all pistillate, in some species bisexual and pistillate, persistent or tardily falling, usually 5, erect to ascending [spreading] (scarcely enlarged) in fruit, shorter than other pistillate paleae; bodies lanceolate to ovate. Pistillate florets [12-]27-40+. Functionally staminate florets 0. Bisexual florets (1-) 2-9(-11) ; corolla lobes 4, ± equal. Cypselae brown, ± monomorphic: terete to ± compressed, cylindric to ± obovoid, usually straight, not gibbous, faces papillate to muricate [glabrous, smooth], dull; corolla scars apical [subapical]; pappi: outer pistillate 0, inner pistillate and bisexual of [3-]13-21 bristles (visible in heads). x = 14.[17] [more]

Fitchia

Fitchia is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Flaveria

Annuals, perennials, or subshrubs, to 200+ cm [trees to 400 cm] (usually ± succulent, herbage usually glaucous). Stems (often purplish) erect or decumbent, branched distally or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; opposite (decussate) ; petiolate or sessile (weakly connate to connate-perfoliate) ; blades (often 3-nerved) oblong-ovate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire, serrate, or spinulose-serrate, faces glabrous or short-pubescent. Heads radiate or discoid, usually in tight or loose aggregations in (often flat-topped) ± corymbiform arrays or glomerules. Involucres oblong, urceolate, cylindric, or turbinate, 0.5-2 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 2-6(-9) in ± 1 series (linear, concave, or boat-shaped, subequal). Receptacles convex, epaleate ("receptacles" of glomerules sometimes setose). Ray florets 0-1(-2), pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow or whitish (laminae inconspicuous). Disc florets 1-15, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than to about equaling funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (black) weakly compressed, narrowly oblanceolate or linear-oblong (usually 10-nerved, glabrous) ; pappi usually 0, sometimes persistent, of 2-4 hyaline scales, or coroniform (of connate scales). x = 18.[18] [more]

Fleischmannia

Fleischmannia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Flourensia

Subshrubs or shrubs [trees], to 100(-200) [-500+] cm. Stems erect, branched from bases or ± throughout. Leaves cauline; alternate; petiolate [nearly sessile]; blades pinnately nerved, mostly elliptic to lance-oblong or ovate, bases rounded to cuneate, margins entire [toothed], faces glabrous or ± scabrellous, usually gland-dotted and vernicose. Heads discoid or radiate, borne ± singly or in ± spiciform arrays. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric, 4-20 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 12-40 in 2-4+ series (subequal or unequal, outer longer). Receptacles flat to conic-ovoid, paleate (paleae conduplicate, cartilaginous to scarious). Ray florets 0 or [5-]13-21, either neuter, or styliferous and sterile; corollas yellow. Disc florets 10-50[-150], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes much shorter than cylindric-funnelform throats, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae ± compressed or flattened [subterete], oblong to oblanceolate (not winged, ± sericeous) ; pappi persistent or tardily falling, of 2 subulate scales. x = 9.[19] [more]

Francoa

Francoa is a of the Francoaceae family. It include only the species Francoa sonchifolia, an herb endemic to Chile, commonly known as Bridal Wreath. Plants may grow up to one metre high and produce basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup-shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early fall. [more]

Fraxinus

Fraxinus () is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45-65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English ?sc, while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also meant "spear" in their respective languages. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately compound, simple in a few species. The seeds, popularly known as keys or helicopter seeds, are a type of fruit known as a samara. Rowans or Mountain Ashes are unrelated to true ashes and belong to the Genus Sorbus though the leaves and buds are superficially similar. [more]

Fumana

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Gaillardia

Gaillardia (), the blanket flowers, is a genus of drought-tolerant annual and perennial plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to North and South America. It was named after M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was a patron of botany. The common name refers to the inflorescence's resemblance to brightly patterned blankets made by native Americans. [more]

Galanthus

Galanthus (Snowdrop; Greek g?la "milk", ?nthos "flower") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn. [more]

Galinsoga

Galinsoga is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members include Galinsoga parviflora, , and Galinsoga quadriradiata. [more]

Gamochaeta

The Antarctic Cudweed (Gamochaeta antarctica) is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It is monotypic within the genus Gamochaeta. It is found only in Falkland Islands. Its natural habitat is temperate shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. [more]

Garuleum

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Gelasine

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Geranium

Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. The flowers have 5 petals and are colored white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining. Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semi-ripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring. [more]

Gibbaria

Ginkgo

Ginkgo is a genus of highly unusual non-flowering plants with one extant species, G. biloba, which is regarded as a living fossil. The most recently described new species (fossil) is Ginkgo huolinhensis. [more]

Gnaphalium

Gnaphalium, commonly called Cudweed, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 120 members of the genus mostly found in temperate regions although some are found on tropical mountains or in the sub-tropical regions of the world. [more]

Godetia

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Grangea

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Grindelia

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]

Groenlandia

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Grosvenoria

Grosvenoria is a genus of about four species of shrubs and small trees in the Asteraceae family. They are native to the Andes, from central Ecuador to northern Peru at elevations of 2700 to 3700 meters. [more]

Guizotia

Guizotia is a genus of six species of native African herbs. They are often known as sunflecks. The species G. abyssinica is occasionally found outside of cultivation in North America and Asia. [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]

Gymnigritella

Gynoxys

Gynoxys is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Gynura

Gynura is an Asian genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. [1], subfamily Asteroideae, tribe Senecioneae. The most known species is Gynura aurantiaca, so called because of the color of its orange inflorescences. This plant is also commonly know as "Purple Passion" because of the velvety purple leaves. Other species are [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]

Helenium

Helenium is a genus of about 40 herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to North America and Central America. They bear yellow or orange daisy-like flowers. A number of these species (particularly Helenium autumnale) are commonly known as sneezeweed based on the former use of its dried leaves in making snuff, inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. [more]

Heliamphora

The genus Heliamphora ( or /hi?li'?mf?r?/; Greek: helos "marsh" and amphoreus "amphora") contains 23 species of pitcher plants endemic to South America. The species are collectively known as sun pitchers, based on the mistaken notion that the heli of Heliamphora is from the Greek helios, meaning "sun". In fact, the name derives from helos, meaning marsh, so a more accurate translation of their scientific name would be marsh pitcher plants. Species in the genus Heliamphora are carnivorous plants that consist of a modified leaf form that is fused into a tubular shape. They have evolved mechanisms to avoid completely filling up with water and attract, trap, and kill insects. At least one species (H. tatei) produces its own proteolytic enzymes that allows it to digest its prey without the help of symbiotic bacteria. [more]

Helianthus

The Helianthus L. genus comprises 67 species and several subspecies in the Asteraceae family, all of which are native to North America, with some species (particularly Helianthus annuus (sunflower) and Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke)) cultivated in Europe and other parts of the world as food crops and ornamental plants. [more]

Helichrysum

The genus Helichrysum () consists of an estimated 600 species, in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The type species is Helichrysum orientale. The name is derived from the Greek words helisso (to turn around) and chrysos (gold). [more]

Helipterum

Helipterum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Many of the species which were formerly included in this genus have now been transferred to other genera including: [more]

Helogyne

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Heloniopsis

Herbs perennial, with a short, thickened rhizome, glabrous. Leaves basal, rosulate, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, proximally gradually narrowed to a petiole, evergreen, margin smooth, sometimes minutely undulate. Scape arising from center of leaf rosette, erect, simple, hollow, with 2--8 scale leaves. Inflorescence a terminal umbel or umbel-like raceme, 1--10-flowered; bract usually absent. Flowers bisexual, usually slightly nodding at anthesis, ascending in fruit, spreading funnelform. Tepals 6, free, spatulate or linear-oblanceolate to oblong, adaxially often with a deep pocket of a nectary gland at base, persistent. Stamens 6, often adnate basally to tepals, sometimes free, always free from ovary, usually exserted, rarely included; anthers lanceolate, dorsifixed, extrorse to latrorse, sometimes with locules confluent at apex. Ovary superior, 3-loculed; ovules 60--180 per locule. Style 1, slender, rather long; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seeds small, linear, both ends caudate.[20] [more]

Hemipogon

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Heptanthus

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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]

Heuchera

The genus Heuchera () includes at least 50 species of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Saxifragaceae, all native to North America. Common names include alumroot and coral bells. They have palmately lobed leaves on long petioles, and a thick, woody rootstock. The genus was named after Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677?1746), an 18th century German physician. [more]

Hieronymiella

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Himantoglossum

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Hinterhubera

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Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum is a genus of about 90 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean. Some species are grown for their large showy flowers. For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name "amaryllis" is mainly used for cultivars of this genus, which are widely used as indoor flowering bulbs. The generic name Amaryllis applies to bulbs from South Africa, usually grown outdoors. [more]

Hippia

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Hippophae

The sea-buckthorns (Hippophae L.) are deciduous shrubs in the genus Hippophae, family Elaeagnaceae. The name sea-buckthorn is hyphenated here to avoid confusion with the buckthorns (Rhamnus, family Rhamnaceae). It is also referred to as sandthorn, sallowthorn, or seaberry. [more]

Hofmeisteria

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Homalotheca

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Homochroma

Hosta

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]

Humulus

Humulus, Hop, is a small genus of flowering plants native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The hop is part of the family Cannabaceae, which also includes the genera Cannabis (hemp), and Celtis (hackberries). [more]

Hyacinthella

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Hydropectis

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Hymenopappus

Biennials or perennials, to 120 cm. Stems erect, often scapiform (1 stem per crown in biennials, usually 3+ in perennials). Leaves mostly basal or basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate; blades usually 12+ times pinnately lobed (lobes usually ± filiform), ultimate margins usually entire, rarely toothed, faces glabrous or hairy, often tomentose, usually gland-dotted as well. Heads radiate or discoid, in ± corymbiform arrays. Involucres obconic to hemispheric, 415+ mm diam. Phyllaries 513+ in 23+ series, subequal, usually membranous- or scarious-margined (often yellowish, whitish, or purplish). Receptacles flat or convex, epaleate (except H. newberryi). Ray florets 0 or 8, pistillate, fertile; corollas white to ochroleucous. Disc florets 1270+, bisexual, fertile; corollas usually yellow to ochroleucous or whitish to purplish, tubes longer than or about equaling funnelform or abruptly dilated, campanulate throats, lobes 5 (reflexed at anthesis). Cypselae obpyramidal (4-, sometimes 5-angled, each face usually 14-ribbed, glabrous or hirtellous to villous) ; pappi 0 or of 1222 orbiculate to spatulate scales. x = 17.[21] [more]

Hymenoxys

Hymenoxys (Rubberweed or Bitterweed) is a genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. Plants of this genus are toxic to sheep due to the presence of the sesquiterpene lactone hymenoxon. There are 28 species. [more]

Hypseocharis

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Ifloga

Illicium

Illicium (Anise-tree, Anise tree) is a genus of flowering plants containing 42 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees, and is the sole genus in family Illiciaceae. The species are native to the tropical and subtropical regions of eastern and southeastern Asia, southeastern North America, and the West Indies. [more]

Ilysanthes

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Impatiens

Impatiens () is a genus of about 850?1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and tropics. Together with the puzzling Hydrocera triflora, this genus makes up the family Balsaminaceae. Such a situation is highly unusual, and phylogenetic studies might reveal that Impatiens needs to be split up; some of its species might be closer to Hydrocera than to their presumed congeners. [more]

Incarvillea

Incarvillea is a genus of 16 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to central and eastern Asia, with most of the species growing at high altitudes in the Himalaya and Tibet. The most familiar species is Incarvillea delavayi, a garden plant commonly known as "hardy gloxinia" or "Chinese trumpet flower". Unlike most other members of Bignoniaceae, which are usually trees or lianas, species of Incarvillea are stemless perennial herbs with fleshy tuberous roots. [more]

Inula

Inula is a large genus of about 90 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe, Asia and Africa. The genus is thought by some[] to be paraphyletic, based on the study of the different phenolic compounds the various species have.[citation needed] [more]

Inulanthera

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Ischyrolepis

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Ismelia

Annuals, 10-30(-50+) cm. Stems 1, erect, usually branched distally, glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs basifixed). Leaves mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades obovate to oblong (bases sometimes clasping), usually 2-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins usually dentate, rarely entire, faces glabrous. Heads radiate, borne singly or in 2s or 3s. Involucres hemispheric or broader, 12-25+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 20-30+ in 2-3 series, distinct, ovate or obovate to lance-deltate or lanceolate (± carinate), unequal, margins and apices scarious (tips of inner often ± dilated). Receptacles convex to conic, epaleate. Ray florets 13-21+, pistillate, fertile; corollas proximally white or red to purple, distally yellow or white, laminae ± linear. Disc florets 80-150+, bisexual, fertile; corollas proximally ochroleucous, distally red to purple, tubes cylindric (stipitate-glandular or gland-dotted), throats funnelform, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae dimorphic: outer 3-angled (each angle ± winged, wings not spine-tipped) ; inner compressed, adaxial angles ± winged (wings not spine-tipped) ; ribs 0, faces glabrous (pericarps without myxogenic cells or resin sacs) ; pappi 0. x = 9.[22] [more]

Iva

Iva can mean: [more]

Jasonia

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Jovellana

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Junellia

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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]

Kadsura

Schisandraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades. Before that, the plants concerned were assigned to family Magnoliaceae. [more]

Karelinia

Kleinia

Kleinia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Knautia

Knautia is a genus in the family Dipsacaceae. The common names of these flowers are a variant of "widow flower." Others are given the name "Scabious," although this word belongs to a related genus (Scabiosa). [more]

Kniphofia

Kniphofia (), also called Tritoma, Red hot poker, Torch lily or Poker plant, is a genus of plants in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Some species have been commercially used horticulturally and are commonly known for their bright, rocket-shaped flowers. [more]

Koanophyllon

Koanophyllon is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Kunkeliella

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Lachnophyllum

Lagenifera

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Lagenophora

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Lagerstroemia

Lagerstroemia (), commonly known as Crape myrtle or Crepe myrtle, is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia and parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world. It is a member of the Lythraceae, which is also known as the Loosestrife family. The genus is named after the Swedish merchant Magnus von Lagerstr?m, who supplied Carolus Linnaeus with plants he collected. [more]

Laggera

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Lasiopogon

Lasiopogon is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Lasiospermum

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Lasthenia

Lasthenia, commonly known as goldfields, is a genus of the botanical family Asteraceae. The genus is named after Lasthenia, a cross-dressing female pupil of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. [more]

Layia

Annuals, 2-60(-130) cm. Stems usually ± erect (prostrate in L. chrysanthemoides and L. platyglossa of coastal bluffs). Leaves mostly cauline; proximal opposite, most alternate; sessile; blades ovate, lanceolate, or oblanceolate to linear, sometimes 1-2-pinnatifid, ultimate margins toothed or entire, faces glabrous or hirsute to strigose (distal leaves sometimes stipitate-glandular as well). Heads usually radiate (discoid in L. discoidea), borne singly or in ± corymbiform arrays. Peduncular bracts: pit-glands, tack-glands, and/or spines 0. Involucres ± hemispheric, campanulate, cylindric, ellipsoid, obconic, or urceolate, 2-15+ mm diam. Phyllaries 0 (then outer paleae functioning as phyllaries, in L. discoidea), or 3-27 in 1(-2) series (lanceolate to lance-attenuate or oblanceolate, herbaceous, each usually wholly enveloping a subtended ray ovary, abaxially hirsute to strigose or scabrous, sometimes glandular). Receptacles flat to convex, setulose, paleate (paleae falling, in 1 series, between rays and discs or subtending ± all disc florets, distinct, phyllary-like, more scarious). Ray florets 0 or 3-27, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow, cream, white, or bicolored. Disc florets 5-120+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate (anthers ± dark purple or yellow to brownish; styles glabrous proximal to branches). Ray cypselae obcompressed, clavate (± arcuate to falcate, basal attachments central, apices beakless, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy) ; pappi 0. Disc cypselae ± clavate (usually ± strigose to sericeous, sometimes glabrous) ; pappi 0 or of 1-32 elliptic, lance-attenuate, ovate, setiform, or subulate, glabrous, scabrous, or plumose scales or bristles (often each basally villous and/or adaxially woolly). x = 8.[23] [more]

Ledebouria

Ledebouria is a of African bulbous perennial herbs in the hyacinth family Hyacinthaceae. Most members were previously part of the genus Scilla. A number of species are grown by cacti and succulent enthusiasts for their patterned leaves. [more]

Leontopodium

Leontopodium is a genus of plants in the daisy family, which includes edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), a well-known plant from the mountains of Europe. The term edelweiss can, more rarely, refer to other members of the genus. The genus contains about 30 species, native to Europe and Asia (and perhaps the Americas). [more]

Leopoldia

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Lepidolopha

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Leptinella

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Leucanthemum

Leucanthemum is a genus of about 70 flowering plants from the sunflower family (). The name Leucanthemum derives from the Greek words leukos, "white," and anthemon, "flower". It occurs in Europe, Northern Africa and the temperate regions of Asia. Many species have been introduced into America, Australia and New Zealand. [more]

Leucophyllum

Leucophyllum is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. It is sometimes placed in the family Myoporaceae. The dozen-odd species are often called "sages", although they have no relationship to the genus Salvia. [more]

Leucoptera

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Liatris

Liatris (common names: Blazing-star, Gay-feather or Button snakeroot) is a genus of ornamental plants in the Asteraceae family. These plants are used as a popular summer flowers for bouquets. [more]

Libanotis

Herbs rarely subshrubs, perennial, stout, sometimes small, rarely acaulescent. Taproot conic, unbranched, caudex simple, rarely branched, woody. Stem often strongly angled and fluted, base densely clothed with fibrous leaf remains. Basal leaves 1-4-pinnate or 1-4-pinnatisect; ultimate segments linear, ovate or lanceolate, entire or lobed. Umbels compound, terminal and lateral; bracts few to numerous or absent; rays numerous to few; bracteoles several, linear or lanceolate. Calyx teeth conspicuous, linear, triangular or elliptic. Petals white, rarely pinkish, ovate or obcordate, apex narrow, inflexed. Stylopodium low-conic, margins often undulate at the base. Fruit ovoid or oblong, slightly to moderately dorsally compressed; dorsal ribs filiform, low or prominent, acute-ridged, lateral ribs sometimes slightly broader; vittae 1-2(-3) in each furrow, 2-4 (rarely 6-8) on commissure. Seed face plane. Carpophore entire or 2-parted.[24] [more]

Libocedrus

Libocedrus is a genus of five species of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to New Zealand and New Caledonia. The genus is closely related to the South American genera Pilgerodendron and Austrocedrus, and the New Guinean genus Papuacedrus, both of which are included within Libocedrus by some botanists; the four genera together form an example of the Antarctic flora distribution. These genera are rather similar to the Northern Hemisphere genera Calocedrus and Thuja: in earlier days, what is now Calocedrus was sometimes included in Libocedrus. They are much less closely related, as recently confirmed (Gadek et al. 2000). The generic name means "teardrop cedar", apparently referring to drops of resin. [more]

Ligularia

Perennials, 15-150+ cm (glabrous or scattered-hairy, especially distally [arachno-tomentose]; roots fibrous). Stems usually 1, erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases dilated, ± sheathing stems) ; blades (basal and proximal largest, cauline smaller distally) palmately [palmati-pinnately] nerved, orbiculate to reniform [elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate], margins dentate [denticulate, serrate, dissected], faces glabrous or sparsely pilosulous (mostly on nerves) [glaucous; arachno-tomentose]. Heads radiate [discoid], in corymbiform [racemiform or spiciform] arrays. Calyculi 0 [1-2+ bractlets]. Involucres cylindric to campanulate, [3-]16-28 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [5-]8-13+ in 1-2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking) [connate at bases], mostly oblong or lanceolate to linear, subequal, margins usually ± scarious (tips greenish or reddish, not blackened). Receptacles flat to convex, smooth, epaleate. Ray florets [0 or 1-7] 8-14+, pistillate, fertile; corollas (laminae prominent, showy) orange to orange-yellow or brick-red [yellow]. Disc florets [5-]12-100+, bisexual, fertile; corollas orange-yellow to orange, becoming brownish [yellow], tubes longer than cylindric throats, lobes 5, recurved, lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices truncate or rounded-truncate. Cypselae (stramineous to brownish) ± ellipsoid [cylindric or fusiform], 5[-10]-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous; pappi persistent (fragile), of 40-100+, reddish [sordid, brownish, purplish], barbellate to barbellulate bristles ([shorter than] longer than cypselae). x = 30.[25] [more]

Limbarda

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Liriope

Liriope has two distinct meanings: [more]

Logfia

Annuals, 1-50(-70) cm. Stems 1, erect, or 2-10+, ascending to prostrate. Leaves cauline; alternate; blades subulate to obovate. Heads usually in glomerules of 2-10(-14) in racemiform to paniculiform or dichasiiform arrays, or some [all] borne singly. Involucres 0 or inconspicuous. Phyllaries 0, vestigial, 1-4 (unequal), or 4-6 (equal). Receptacles fungiform to obovoid (heights 0.4-1.6 times diams.), glabrous. Pistillate paleae (except usually innermost) readily or tardily falling, erect to ascending; bodies with 5+ nerves (nerves ± parallel, obscure), lanceolate to ovate or boat-shaped, ± saccate most of lengths (obcompressed to terete, sometimes ± galeate, each ± enclosing a floret) ; wings erect to incurved (apices blunt). Innermost paleae usually all pistillate, in some species bisexual and pistillate, persistent, usually 5 or 8, spreading (and enlarged) in fruit, surpassing other pistillate paleae; bodies lanceolate to ovate. Pistillate florets 14-45+. Functionally staminate florets 0. Bisexual florets 2-10; corolla lobes 4-5, ± equal. Cypselae brown, dimorphic: outer compressed to obcompressed, obovoid to ± cylindric, straight or curved, longer than inner, abaxially gibbous, faces glabrous, smooth, shiny; inner ± terete, faces glabrous, usually papillate to muriculate, sometimes smooth, dull; corolla scars apical to subapical; pappi: outer pistillate 0, inner pistillate and bisexual of (11-) 13-28+ bristles (visible in heads). . = 14.[26] [more]

Lonas

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Lopholaena

Lopholaena is a genus of plants in the family . About 20 species occur in Africa. [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]

Lordhowea

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Lucilia

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[27] [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]

Madia

Madia is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs, which have yellow flowers, in the family Asteraceae (sunflower family). They are sometimes known as tarweeds. The 21 species in this genus are native to western North America and southwestern South America. The name Madia is derived from a Chilean name ("Madi") for one of the members of the genus. [more]

Mahonia

Mahonia is a genus of about 70 species of evergreen shrubs in the family Berberidaceae, native to eastern Asia, the Himalaya, North America and Central America. They are closely related to the genus Berberis. Botanists disagree on the acceptability of the genus name Mahonia. Several authorities argue plants in this genus should be included in the genus Berberis because several species in both genera are able to hybridize, and because when the two genera are looked at as a whole, there is no definite morphological separation. Mahonia typically have large, pinnate leaves 10?50 cm long with 5-15 leaflets, and flowers in racemes (5?20 cm long). [more]

Mairia

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Malcolmia

Malcolmia is a genus from the family Brassicaceae. Species from this genus are native to Europe and Africa. [more]

Marcetella

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Matricaria

Matricaria is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Some of the species have the common name of "mayweed," but this name also refers to plants not in this genus. [more]

Melampodium

Melampodium a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. [more]

Melanodendron

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]

Melilotoides

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Metalasia

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Michelia

Michelia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Magnolia family (Magnoliaceae). The genus includes about 50 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, native to tropical and subtropical south and southeast Asia (Indomalaya), including southern China. [more]

Microcephala

Microglossa

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Micropus

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Microula

Herbs biennial, usually hispid or bristly, rarely pubescent. Roots terete. Stems erect to ascending, frequently branched from base, sometimes very short. Leaves alternate, margin entire, rarely with obscure teeth; lateral veins few, not conspicuous. Cymes short, crowded, rarely elongated, becoming spiciform or racemelike, sometimes 1-flowered at a branching point opposite a leaf; bracts obscure. Calyx 5-parted, slightly enlarged in fruit, subtending nutlets. Corolla blue or white, low salverform; throat 5-appendaged; appendages opposite lobes; limb 5-lobed, spreading horizontally. Stamens included. Ovary 4-parted. Style included; stigma compressed globose. Gynobase nearly flat or low fastigiate. Nutlets ovoid or long turbinate, slightly dorsiventrally, rarely slightly bilaterally compressed, or abaxial and adaxial surfaces extended and becoming long turbinate, usually tuberculate, glabrous or short pubescent, rarely with glochids, abaxially usually with an aperture, aperture margin 1- (or 2) -layered; attachment scar extending from base to apex adaxially.[28] [more]

Mikania

Mikania is a genus of about 450 species in the family of Asteraceae. The name honors the Czech botanist Johann Christian Mikan. Members of the genus are stem twiners and lianas and are common in the neotropical flora. Mikania originates from South America. A few species, such as , are found in temperate areas of North and South America, and nine species are known from the Old World tropics. As with other plants in the tribe Eupatorieae, the flowers have disc florets and no ray florets. [more]

Milleria

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Monactis

Monactis is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Monizia

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Monsonia

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Montanoa

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Monticalia

Monticalia is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Morisia

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Murbeckiella

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Nanothamnus

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Narduroides

Nauplius

Nauplia, Nauplius or Nauplios may refer to : [more]

Nemesia

Nemesia can be: [more]

Neolitsea

Neolitsea is a genus of 80 species of shrub and small tree in the laurel family Lauraceae. They range from tropical Asia, Malesia to Australia. The leaves are alternate and gathered in pseudowhorls. [more]

Neomirandea

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Nerine

Nerine is a genus of plants belonging to the Amaryllidaceae family. Native to South Africa, there are about 30 different species in the genus. Nerine have been widely cultivated and much hybridized and are now spread world wide. [more]

Nicolasia

Nipponanthemum

Shrubs, 20-100 cm. Stems 1+, erect, branched distally, puberulent, glabrescent. Leaves cauline (mostly clustered distally on stems) ; alternate; sessile; blades oblong or spatulate to lanceolate (bases cuneate), margins distally toothed or entire, faces glabrous or hirtellous. Heads radiate, borne singly. Involucres hemispheric or broader, 15-20 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 30-50+ in ± 4 series, distinct, lanceolate, oblong, obovate, or ovate (not carinate), unequal, margins and apices scarious. Receptacles convex, epaleate. Ray florets 21-34+, pistillate, fertile; corollas white, laminae ± ovate to linear. Disc florets [50-]80-250+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow [red or purple], tubes cylindric (not basally dilated, usually gland-dotted), throats ± campanulate, lobes 5, deltate (without resin sacs). Cypselae ± columnar, ribs 8-10 (not winged), faces probably glabrous (pericarps without myxogenic cells or resin sacs) ; pappi crowns of scales. x = 9.[29] [more]

Nitraria

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Nolletia

Nothofagus

Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 36 species of trees and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia). Fossils have recently been found in Antarctica. [more]

Nothoperanema

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Oedera

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Olearia

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]

Oligocarpus

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Omalotheca

Perennials, 2-70 cm (fibrous-rooted, rhizomatous, not stoloniferous). Stems usually 1, erect (branched from bases or distally, woolly-tomentose to sericeous). Leaves basal (persistent in rosettes) and cauline; alternate; sessile; blades mostly narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, bases cuneate, margins entire, faces bicolor or concolor, abaxial white to gray, thinly tomentose, adaxial white to grayish and sericeous to thinly woolly or greenish and glabrate. Heads disciform, in spiciform or subcapitate arrays. Involucres campanulate to turbinate, 5-6 mm. Phyllaries in 2-3 series, stramineous to brownish (sometimes mottled; hyaline, stereomes not glandular), unequal, chartaceous toward apices. Receptacles flat to concave, smooth, epaleate. Peripheral (pistillate) florets 35-70+ (more numerous than bisexual) ; corollas purplish or whitish. Inner (bisexual) florets 3-4; corollas purplish or whitish, distally purplish or reddish. Cypselae obovoid to cylindric or fusiform, sometimes slightly compressed, faces strigillose (hairs not myxogenic, lengths 6-12 times diams.) and papillate (carpopodia forming minute stipes) ; pappi falling readily, of 15-25 distinct (falling separately) or basally connate (falling together), barbellate bristles in 1 series. x = 14.[30] [more]

Omphalodes

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Ophryosporus

Ophryosporus is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains 48 species, most of them from South America. It contains the following species: [more]

Osmarea

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Osmitopsis

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Osteospermum

Osteospermum () is a genus belonging to the Calenduleae, one of the smaller tribes of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). [more]

Othonna

Othonna is a genus of evergreen or deciduous geophytes, dwarf succulents or shrubs belonging to the sunflower family Asteraceae. The genus includes more than 100 species concentrated in the Western Cape of South Africa and southern Namibia. A few species occur in summer rainfall parts of southern Africa. The genus is closely allied to Senecio and can be distinguished principally by details of the involucre. Taxonomically they are in need of a modern revision. [more]

Ozothamnus

Ozothamnus is a genus of plants found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. [more]

Packera

Packera is a genus of about 64 species of plants in the composite family, Asteraceae. Its members were previously included in the genus Senecio (where they were called aureoid senecios by Asa Gray), but were divided out based on chromosome numbers, a variety of morphological characters, and molecular phylogeny. [more]

Pappobolus

Pappobolus is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Parafestuca

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Paragynoxys

Paragynoxys is a genus of nine of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Parasenecio

Perennials, [20-]60-120[-200] cm (rhizomes fibrous-rooted; plants caulescent [subscapiform], glabrous or hairy). Stems usually 1, erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (petiole bases ± auriculate and clasping to sheathing; proximal and middle leaves largest) ; blades palmately nerved [and lobed], reniform to ± deltate [orbiculate, sometimes peltate], margins usually raggedly dentate, abaxial faces glabrous or puberulent (on veins) [puberulent to sericeous], adaxial glabrous. Heads discoid (nodding), in racemiform or subpaniculiform arrays. Calyculi 0 [present]. Involucres cylindric to weakly turbinate, 2-3+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [3-]5+ in 1-2 series, erect, distinct, oblong to linear, equal, margins ± scarious. Receptacles flat, smooth or foveolate, epaleate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets [1-]4-7[-20], bisexual, fertile; corollas white or ochroleucous [yellowish], tubes longer than funnelform throats, lobes 5, recurved or coiled, lance-linear to deltate; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices rounded-truncate. Cypselae ± ellipsoid, sometimes finely 10-ribbed, glabrous; pappi readily falling or fragile, of 100-120+, white [reddish], barbellulate bristles. x = 30.[31] [more]

Paris

Herbs perennial. Rhizome slender or thickened. Stem erect, simple. Leaves 4 to many, very rarely 3, in a terminal whorl, petiolate, lanceolate to ovate, with 3 main veins and anastomosing veinlets. Flowers bisexual, solitary, terminal, pedunculate. Tepals 3--8, in 2 whorls, free; outer ones green, rarely white, ovate to lanceolate; inner ones linear or occasionally absent. Stamens 8--24 or more, 2--8 × as many as tepals; filaments narrow, flat; anthers basifixed, often with convex connective apically. Ovary subglobose, 1-loculed with parietal placentation or 4--10-loculed with axile placentation. Style short; stigma lobes 4--10. Fruit a berry or a berrylike capsule, indehiscent or loculicidal, several to many seeded.[32] [more]

Parolinia

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Parthenium

Parthenium is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. The name is derived from either the Greek word pa?????? (parthenos), meaning "virgin," or pa??????? (parthenion), an ancient name for a plant. Members of the genus are commonly known as feverfew. Notable species include Guayule (P. argentatum) and P. hysterophorus, a serious invasive species in the Old World. [more]

Patrinia

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Pectis

Pectis is a genus of plants in the daisy family known generally as cinchweeds. They are native to the Americas, including the Caribbean. These plants vary in appearance but they usually bear yellow daisylike flowers. [more]

Pegolettia

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Pentacalia

Pentacalia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. About 34 members of this genus appear to be located in the South American county Ecuador, where they are threatened by habitat loss. The genus contains approximately two hundred species, which are distributed from Mexico to northern South America. [more]

Pentzia

Pentzia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Pericallis

Pericallis is a small genus of about 14 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Canary Islands and Madeira. The genus includes herbaceous plants and small subshrubs. In the past, the genus was often included in either Cineraria or Senecio. [more]

Perityle

Perityle is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae). They are known generally as rock daisies. This is a variable genus, with its members sharing few characteristics. They include small herbs to spreading shrubs and most bear yellow or white daisylike flower heads. The fruit is generally a flat seed with thickened margins which may or may not have a pappus or scales. Plants of this genus are native to western North America. [more]

Perymenium

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Petasites

The plants commonly referred to as Butterbur are found in the daisy family Asteraceae in the genus Petasites. They are mostly quite robust plants with thick, creeping underground rhizomes and large Rhubarb-like leaves during the growing season. Another common name for many species of this genus is Sweet Coltsfoot. [more]

Phaenocoma

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Phaeostigma

Phagnalon

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Phaiophleps

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Phalacroloma

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Phillyrea

Phillyrea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, the Canary Islands and Madeira. [more]

Phycella

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Phygelius

Phygelius (E. Mey.ex Benth.), Cape fuchsia, is a of the Scrophulariaceae family. The genus is native to southern Africa. The plants are adapted to surviving severe summer conditions. Phygelius is not related to the Fuchsia genus, in spite of the common name. [more]

Phymatosorus

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Piqueria

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Pityopsis

Perennials, 10-80 cm (forming clumps) ; rhizomatous. Stems ascending to erect, simple or branched, usually moderately to densely appressed silky-sericeous (hairs often anastomosing), rarely glabrate, sometimes stipitate-glandular. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; sessile; blades 3-11-parallel-nerved, linear to lanceolate or ovate, often grasslike (basal shorter or longer than mid, mid larger), margins entire, faces glabrate to densely piloso-sericeous (hairs long, thin, soft, sometimes anastomosing). Heads radiate, usually in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, rarely borne singly. Involucres turbinate (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; corollas yellow. 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 funnelform throats, 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; pappi persistent, 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.[33] [more]

Plagius

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Platanus

Platanus () is a small genus of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are the sole living members of the family Platanaceae. [more]

Pleioblastus

Pleioblastus is a genus of monopodial bamboo. Genetic research indicates that this genus may properly be part of the genus Arundinaria. [more]

Pluchea

Pluchea is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. Members of this genus might be known as camphorweeds, plucheas, or less uniquely "fleabanes". Some (like P. carolinensis and P. odorata) are called sourbushes. There are at least 40 species in the genus. They are native to tropical and warm temperate areas. Most take the form of resinous, bushy shrubs. This genus was named for the French naturalist No?l-Antoine Pluche. [more]

Podocoma

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Podolepis

Podolepis is a of the botanical family Asteraceae (the daisy family). It is endemic to Australia and can be found in every state. [more]

Polymnia

Annuals or perennials, 50-150+ cm (often rhizomatous). Stems erect, branched distally. Leaves all or mostly cauline; opposite; petiolate (petioles often ± winged, often with connate-perfoliate basal appendages) ; blades (pinnately nerved) deltate or rounded-rhombic to cordate or ovate, often raggedly pinnately lobed (lobes 3-11), ultimate margins coarsely toothed to denticulate or entire, faces pilose or pilosulous to hirtellous, or glabrate, or glabrous, gland-dotted and/or stipitate-glandular. Heads usually radiate, rarely ± disciform, (2-5+) in loose to congested, corymbiform clusters. Calyculi 0. Involucres hemispheric, 4-15+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 6-21+ in 2 series (distinct, outer 2-6 ovate to linear, ± herbaceous, inner ovate to lanceolate, subequal to or shorter than outer, more scarious, similar to paleae). Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae obovate to oblanceolate or spatulate, herbaceous to scarious). Ray florets 2-6, pistillate, fertile; corollas pale yellowish to whitish (tubes pilosulous, laminae ± cuneate to linear, 3-lobed, sometimes absent or nearly so). Disc florets 12-30+, functionally staminate; corollas pale yellow, tubes shorter than abruptly dilated throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-ovate. Cypselae plumply pyriform, ± obcompressed, 3-6-angled or -ribbed, finely striate between ribs (narrowed at bases, patently inserted on receptacles, often minutely beaked), sparsely hirtellous or glabrate; pappi 0. x = 15.[34] [more]

Polystichum

Polystichum is a genus of about 180 species of ferns with a cosmopolitan distribution. The highest diversity is in eastern Asia, with about 120 species in China alone; Africa (17 species), North America (15 species), and Europe (5 species) have much lower diversity. [more]

Ponerorchis

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Porophyllum

Porophyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family known commonly as the poreleaf genus. Poreleaf plants are strongly-scented herbs and subshrubs native to the Americas. They have oily foliage and usually yellow daisylike flower heads. [more]

Prunus

Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, including the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. It is traditionally placed within the rose family Rosaceae as a subfamily, the Prunoideae (or Amygdaloideae), but sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae (or Amygdalaceae). There are around 430 species of Prunus, spread throughout the northern temperate regions of the globe. [more]

Psacalium

Perennials, [10-]80-150[-300] cm (rhizomes usually fleshy; plants hairy or tufted-hairy to unevenly glabrate). Stems single or clustered, erect. Leaves basal and cauline (proximal largest, cauline progressively smaller distally, bractlike) ; alternate; petiolate (petioles well defined, attached to blades at bases [attached near centers, leaves peltate]) ; blades palmately or pinnately nerved (and, usually, lobed), mostly ovate to elliptic [orbiculate, polygonal], ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces glabrous or sparsely [densely] hairy. Heads discoid, in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. Calyculi of 1-3[-5] bractlets (shorter than [equaling or longer than] phyllaries). Involucres cylindric to weakly turbinate, 1.5-4[-10+] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, mostly 5-8[-17] in 1-2 series, erect, distinct, ovate, obovate, or oblong, subequal, margins scarious (tips greenish or gray to whitish, not black). Receptacles flat, foveolate (sometimes hairy), epaleate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 5-8[-80], bisexual, fertile; corollas white or ochroleucous [yellow, purplish], tubes longer than the campanulate or ± lacking throats, lobes 5, ascending to spreading, lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices rounded-truncate. Cypselae mostly ± ellipsoid, ± compressed, [10-]14-18-ribbed, glabrous or hairy; pappi [0] persistent (fragile), of 100-120, white or creamy, barbellulate bristles. x = 30.[35] [more]

Psiadia

Psiadia is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Psilactis

Annuals or biennials [perennials], 15-150 cm (taprooted). Stems erect 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, distal sessile; basal blades 1-nerved, obovate to linear-oblanceolate; proximal cauline blades lanceolate, elliptic, or obovate to linear-oblanceolate, margins entire, coarsely toothed or pinnately lobed, faces appressed-hairy; distal blades ovate to lanceolate to linear, smaller, margins entire, faces stipitate-glandular and/or appressed-hairy. Heads radiate, borne in loosely corymbiform arrays. Involucres turbinate 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; corollas white to blue or purple (tightly coiled at maturity). Disc florets 15-150, bisexual, fertile (pappose) ; corollas yellow, lobes often purple, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, 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, apically attenuate bristles in 1-2 series. x = 3, 4, 9.[36] [more]

Psychrogeton

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Pterocaulon

Perennials, 20-150 cm; usually rhizomatous and/or lignescent-tuberous-rooted. Stems erect, simple, internodes winged (by decurrent leaf bases), lanate-tomentose and/or glandular. Leaves cauline, alternate; sessile; blades linear to elliptic or obovate, bases decurrent, margins usually serrate to serrulate or denticulate, rarely entire, abaxial faces densely whitish-tomentose [puberulent or glabrescent], adaxial (green) glabrous or glabrescent, both faces usually stipitate- or sessile-glandular. Heads disciform, (sessile) in spiciform arrays (at ends of branches). Involucres cylindro-campanulate to campanulate, 2-3[-5] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, in 4-6 series, distinct, narrowly lanceolate, unequal (subindurate to scarious). Receptacles flat, epaleate. Ray florets 0. Peripheral (pistillate) florets in 1-3+ series, fertile; corollas yellowish. Inner (functionally staminate [bisexual]) florets [1-]2-15[+]; corollas yellowish, lobes 5. Cypselae cylindric to fusiform, angled or slightly compressed, ribs 6-9 (white, narrow), faces usually sparsely strigose to hispidulous, minutely sessile-glandular between ribs; pappi persistent, of distinct, barbellulate bristles in 1-2 series. x = 10.[37] [more]

Pteronia

Pteronia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Pulicaria

Pulicaria is a genus of in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Pyrethropsis

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Pyrethrum

Pyrethrum refers to several Old World plants of the genus (e.g., C. coccineum) which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. It is also the name of a natural insecticide made from the dried flower heads of C. cinerariifolium and C. coccineum. Pyrethrum was used for centuries as an insecticide and as a lice remedy ("Persian Insect Powder," "Persian Pellitory") in the Middle East. It was sold worldwide under the brand Zacherlin by Austrian industrialist J. Zacherl. [more]

Raillardella

Perennials, 1-50+ cm (with branching caudices or rhizomes). Stems ± erect (± scapiform). Leaves mostly basal (in rosettes) ; opposite; sessile; blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, margins usually entire, sometimes, denticulate, faces glabrous or sericeous or sparsely hirtellous and/or stipitate-glandular. Heads radiate or discoid, borne singly (on scapiform peduncles) or rarely in open, ± corymbiform arrays. Peduncular bracts: (usually 0) pit-glands, tack-glands, and/or spines 0. Involucres hemispheric or campanulate to cylindric, 3-25+ mm diam. Phyllaries 0 ("involucres" then consisting of 1 series of paleae), or 1-13 in 1 series (lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, herbaceous, each usually 1/2+ enveloping a subtended ray ovary, abaxially hirsute and ± stipitate-glandular). Receptacles flat or convex, glabrous or setulose, paleate (paleae ± persistent, usually in 1 series between rays and discs, peripheral and constituting "involucres" in discoid heads, connate or distinct, sometimes overlapping, herbaceous to scarious). Ray florets 0 or 1-13, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow to yellow-orange or orange to red-orange (not nerved with red to purple abaxially). Disc florets 7-80+, bisexual, fertile; corollas concolorous with rays, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes 5, deltate (anthers yellowish; styles glabrous proximal to branches). Ray cypselae ± terete, ± clavate, basal attachments central, apices not beaked, faces strigose; pappi 0, or of 8-30 ± subulate, ciliate to plumose scales. Disc cypselae ± terete, ± clavate, (basal attachments central, apices not beaked, faces strigose) ; pappi of 8-30 ± subulate, ciliate to plumose scales. x = 17 or 18.[38] [more]

Raoulia

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Raphanus

Raphanus is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. Two or three species are currently classified in Raphanus. They include the cultivated radish, Raphanus sativus and the common wild radish or jointed charlock, R. raphanistrum. Some authors accept the podding or rattail radish, R. caudatus as a third member of the genus, while others treat it as a variety of R. sativus. Substantial numbers of other species in the genus have been proposed at various times, but almost all are currently regarded as varieties of R. sativus, while a few are treated as varieties of R. raphanistrum or are not accepted as well-described species. Examples are R. raphanistrum ssp. landra and R. raphanistrum ssp. maritimus (Sea Radish). [more]

Regelia

Regelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. This genus is composed of six species of small leaved, evergreen shrubs and trees that are endemic to Australia. Five of the six species are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The sixth species that has been assigned to this genus (R. punicea) is endemic to Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory and is now considered to belong to a new separate genus, Petraeomyrtus. Regelia species range from 1 to 6 meters in height. They are noted for bearing essential oils. Typically showy blooms are aggregate inflorescences which take the form of heads or spikes depending upon the species. Fruits are a woody, 3-valved capsule which often split upon maturity. [more]

Rehmannia

Rehmannia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the order Lamiales, endemic to China. [more]

Relhania

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Rhodanthe

Rhodanthe is a genus of flowering plants within the daisy family Asteraceae, endemic to Australia. [more]

Ricotia

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Robinsonia

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Rodgersia

Rodgersia is a genus of flowering plants in the Saxifragaceae family. Rodgersia are herbaceous perennials. [more]

Roldana

Perennials or subshrubs [shrubs, or trees], [20-]60-100(-300) [-800] cm (caudices woody, fibrous-rooted, often woolly). Stems single or clustered, erect (glabrous or arachnose and glabrescent [tomentose to lanate]). Leaves mostly cauline (at flowering) ; alternate; petiolate; blades pinnati-palmately [pinnately or palmately] nerved, suborbiculate (proximal) to ovate or oblong (distal) [deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, orbiculate, or ovate], sinuately to angularly lobed (± polygonal) [palmately, pinnately, or not lobed], ultimate margins serrate to denticulate (lobes and denticles apiculate) or entire, abaxial faces glabrous or arachnose [tomentose to lanate] and glabrate, adaxial glabrous or glabrate [tomentose to lanate]. Heads radiate [disciform or discoid], in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays (peduncles usually arachnose). Calyculi 0 or of 1-3(-5) [-13+] (linear [filiform to foliaceous]) bractlets. Involucres campanulate [hemispheric to cylindric or funnelform], 3-5[-20+] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, (5-) 8-13+ in 2 series, erect, distinct, lanceolate or lance-linear to linear (± navicular), equal, margins ± scarious. Receptacles flat, alveolate (margins of sockets raggedly toothed), epaleate. Ray florets [0 or 3-]5-8, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow or yellow-orange [whitish or ochroleucous] (laminae usually oblong to elliptic). Disc florets 6-30[-100+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow or yellow-orange [whitish or ochroleucous], tubes shorter to longer than funnelform to campanulate throats, lobes 5, recurved, deltate to lance-ovate; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices rounded-truncate. Cypselae ± columnar, [5- or] 10-ribbed, puberulent (between ribs) [glabrous]; pappi persistent (fragile), of 40-80+, white, barbellulate bristles in 1 series. x = 30.[39] [more]

Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia is one of at least four genera within the flowering plant family Asteraceae whose members are commonly known as coneflowers; the others are Echinacea, Dracopis and Ratibida. [more]

Ruttya

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Sachsia

A genus in the Kingdom Fungi. [more]

Salix

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are known as willow, but some narrow-leaved shrub species are called osier, and some broader-leaved species are referred to as sallow (from Old English sealh, related to the Latin word salix, willow). Some willows (particularly arctic and alpine species) are low-growing or creeping shrubs; for example, the dwarf willow (Salix herbacea) rarely exceeds 6 cm (2 in) in height, though it spreads widely across the ground. [more]

Santolina

Santolina is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. Between five and 24 species are accepted by different authorities.[] [more]

Sanvitalia

The creeping zinnias (genus Sanvitalia) are flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. They are widely cultivated as ornamental plants, and there are numerous cultivars. [more]

Sarcococca

Sarcococca, Sweet box, or Christmas box is a genus of 16-20 species of flowering plants in the family Buxaceae, native to eastern and southeastern Asia and the Himalaya. They are slow-growing evergreen shrubs 1-2 m tall. The leaves are borne alternately, 3-12 cm long and 1-4 cm broad. They bear fragrant flowers, often in winter. The fruit is a red or black drupe containing 1-3 seeds. Some species are cultivated for ground cover in shady areas. [more]

Scalesia

Scalesia is a genus in the family endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It contains fifteen species displaying shrub or arborescent habit. It is unusual because tree species are rare in Asteraceae. [more]

Sclerorhachis

Scopolia

Scopolia is a genus of five species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe and Asia. The genus is named after Giovanni Scopoli (1723-88), a Tyrolian naturalist. [more]

Scurrula

Shrubs parasitic, base often with epicortical roots, most young parts usually with dense stellate and sometimes also verticillate hairs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, pinnately veined. Inflorescences axillary or at leafless node, racemes or sometimes umbels; 1 bract subtending each flower, usually scale-like. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous, zygomorphic. Calyx pyriform or turbinate, base attenuate, limb annular, persistent. Mature flower bud tubular. Corolla sympetalous, curved, basal portion inflated, split along 1 side at anthesis, tip ellipsoid or ovoid, lobes all reflexed toward the side away from the split. Stamens inserted at base of corolla lobes; filaments short; anthers 4-loculed, sometimes multilocellate. Pollen grain trilobate in polar view. Ovary 1-loculed; placentation basal. Style filiform, 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.[40] [more]

Senecio

Senecio () is a genus of the daisy family (Asteraceae) that includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters. Senecio is one of the largest genera of flowering plants, and despite the separation of many species into other genera it still contains c.?1250 species of varied form, including leaf, stem and tuber succulents, annuals, perennials, aquatics, climbers, shrubs and small trees. Some species produce natural biocides (especially alkaloids) to deter or even kill animals that would eat them. [more]

Sequoia

Sequoia is a genus in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae), containing the single living species Sequoia sempervirens. Common names include Coast Redwood and California Redwood (it is one of three species of trees known as redwoods). It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living for up to 2,200 years, and is the tallest tree in the world, reaching up to 115.5 m (379.1 ft) in height and 7 m (23 ft) diameter at the base. It is thought to be named after the Cherokee Indian leader, Sequoyah, though this is uncertain. [more]

Sequoiadendron

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia, giant redwood, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, or Wellingtonia) is the sole living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood). The common use of the name "sequoia" generally refers to Sequoiadendron, which occurs naturally only in groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. [more]

Serapias

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Sesamoides

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Seticereus

Cleistocactus is a genus of columnar cacti from Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina. The name comes from the Greek kleistos meaning closed because the flowers hardly open. [more]

Shortia

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Shoshonea

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Sigesbeckia

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Silphium

Silphium (also known as silphion or laser) was a plant that was used in classical antiquity as a rich seasoning and as a medicine. It was the essential item of trade from the ancient North African city of Cyrene, and was so critical to the Cyrenian economy that most of their coins bore a picture of the plant (illustration, right). The valuable product was the plant's resin (laser, laserpicium, or lasarpicium). [more]

Simsia

Annuals, perennials, or subshrubs [shrubs], 20-400 cm. Stems erect or ascending [decumbent], sparingly to freely branched. Leaves cauline; opposite (proximal) or alternate [whorled]; petiolate (petioles often ± winged, often with expanded bases, those bases sometimes fused to form nodal "discs") [sessile]; blades 3-nerved from bases, mostly deltate to ovate [linear], sometimes 3- [5-]lobed[pinnatifid], bases cordate to cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, faces hirsute, hispid, pilose, puberulent, scabrous, or scabro-hispid [sericeous], often gland-dotted or ± stipitate-glandular to glandular-puberulent. Heads radiate [discoid], borne singly or in 2s or 3s, or in tight to loose, corymbiform [paniculiform] arrays. Involucres campanulate [ovoid-campanulate to urceolate], 5-16[-22] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, [11-]13-43[-66] in 2-4 series (tightly appressed to broadly reflexed, unequal to subequal). Receptacles low-convex, paleate (paleae conduplicate, ± enclosing cypselae). Ray florets [0-]5-21[-45], styliferous and sterile; corollas orange-yellow [lemon-yellow, pink, purple, or white]. Disc florets [12-]13-154[-172], bisexual, fertile; corollas concolorous with rays (usually turning purple apically), tubes (often glandular-hairy) shorter than throats, lobes 5, ± triangular (anthers black, yellow, or yellow proximally and bronze or purple distally; style branches relatively slender, apices sometimes attenuate). Cypselae flattened, thin-margined [thickened, biconvex] (shoulders minute to conspicuous, faces glabrous or hairy) ; pappi 0, or fragile or readily falling, of 2 ± subulate scales [plus 4-12 shorter scales]. x = 17.[41] [more]

Sinapidendron

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Sinosenecio

Perennials, 10-30 cm (glabrous or sparsely tomentose; caudices sometimes rhizomatous, sometimes fibrous-rooted). Stems single or loosely clustered, erect. Leaves basal and cauline (sometimes mostly basal, distal usually smaller, bractlike) ; alternate; petiolate (petioles sometimes proximally dilated, ± sheathing stems, distally not winged) ; blades palmately or subpalmately nerved, ovate to subreniform [orbiculate to deltate], margins lobulate-dentate [dentate, denticulate, entire], faces glabrous or sparsely arachnose to tomentose. Heads radiate, borne singly [in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays]. Calyculi 0 (cauline bractlets sometimes approaching bases of heads). Involucres campanulate to hemispheric, [3-]6-10+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, usually 8 or 13 in (1-) 2 series, erect (reflexed in fruit), distinct [basally connate], ± lanceolate, equal, margins ± scarious. Receptacles flat to convex, smooth [foveolate, sometimes setaceous], epaleate. Ray florets 8-13, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow to orange-yellow (sometimes drying pink). Disc florets [20-]30-60+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange-yellow, tubes shorter than or equaling funnelform [campanulate] throats, lobes 5, erect or recurved, lance-deltate; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous [in 2 lines], apices rounded-truncate. Cypselae ± columnar to prismatic, 5- or 10-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous [puberulent]; pappi persistent (fragile [readily falling]), of 40-60, white, barbellulate to smooth bristles [absent on ray cypselae]. x = 24.[42] [more]

Solidago

The goldenrod is a yellow flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae. [more]

Soliva

Soliva sessilis, one of up to nine species of the genus Soliva, is a low-growing herbaceous annual plant. Its common names include lawnweed, common soliva, and field burrweed. It is one of several plants known as bindi weed, bindii, or bindi-eye. Botanical synonyms include Soliva daucifolia Nutt. and Soliva pterosperma (Juss.) Less. [more]

Sollya

Billardiera is a genus of small vines and shrubs which is endemic to Australia. The genus was first formally described in 1793 by botanist James Edward Smith who named it in honour of Jacques Labillardi?re, a French botanist. [more]

Sphaeranthus

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Spiloxene

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Stemmacantha

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Stenachaenium

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Stenactis

Stevia

Stevia is a genus of about 150 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical South America and Central America. The species Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, sugarleaf, or simply stevia, is widely grown for its sweet leaves. As a sugar substitute, stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or liquorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations. [more]

Stichodactyla

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Stoebe

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Streptoglossa

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Stromanthe

Stromanthe is a genus of in family Marantaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Strumaria

Strumaria is a genus of in family Amaryllidaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Swertia

Swertia is a genus in the gentian family containing plants sometimes referred to as the felworts. Some species bear very showy purple and blue flowers. [more]

Symphyglossum

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Symphyopappus

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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]

Synotis

Tagetes

Tagetes is a genus of 56 species of annual and perennial mostly herbaceous plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae or Compositae). The genus is native to North and South America, but some species have become naturalized around the world. One species, T. minuta, is considered a noxious invasive plant in some areas. [more]

Tanacetopsis

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Tanacetum

Tanacetum is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [more]

Taxillus

Shrubs parasitic, most young parts usually with dense stellate and/or verticillate hairs, rarely glabrous (in T. delavayi). Leaves opposite or alternate, pinnately veined. Inflorescences axillary, umbels or rarely short, irregular racemes, 2-5-flowered; 1 bract subtending each flower, usually scale-like. Flowers bisexual, 4[or 5]-merous, zygomorphic. Calyx ellipsoid or ovoid, rarely subglobose, base not attenuate, limb annular, entire or denticulate, persistent. Mature flower bud tubular, tip ellipsoid or ovoid. Corolla sympetalous, slightly curved, basal portion ± inflated, split along 1 side at anthesis, lobes all reflexed toward the side away from the split. Stamens inserted at base of corolla lobes; filaments short to almost absent; anthers 4-loculed, sometimes multilocellate. Pollen grain trilobate or semilobate in polar view. Ovary 1-loculed; placentation basal. Style filiform, 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.[43] [more]

Telekia

Telekia is a of flowering plant, of the family Asteraceae. These species are found in the European Alps. [more]

Telesonix

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Teline

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Tephroseris

Annuals, biennials, or perennials, (5-) 10-100+ cm (rhizomatous or caudices ± erect; plants usually arachnose, floccose, lanate, tomentose, or villous, sometimes unevenly glabrate). Stems 1 or more (loosely clustered), erect. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate (basal and proximal cauline; distal leaves usually sessile, smaller, bractlike) ; blades pinnately nerved, lanceolate, linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate, or subrhombic (bases tapering or contracted to petioles), margins entire or dentate, denticulate, subentire, subpinnatifid, or wavy, faces usually arachnose, floccose, lanate, tomentose, or villous, sometimes unevenly glabrate. Heads radiate or discoid, borne singly or (2-40+) in corymbiform arrays. Calyculi 0. Involucres hemispheric or campanulate to turbinate, 8-12+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, usually 8, 13, or 21 in (1-) 2 series, erect, distinct (margins interlocking), lance-linear to lanceolate or oblong, equal, margins ± scarious (abaxial faces usually arachnose, floccose, lanate, tomentose, or villous, sometimes unevenly glabrate). Receptacles flat or ± dome-shaped (not conic), smooth, epaleate. Ray florets 0 or mostly 8, 13, or 21, pistillate, fertile; corollas usually yellow, orange, or orange-yellow, sometimes ochroleucous or white [brick-colored, purplish] (laminae usually 5-20 mm, sometimes 1-3 mm). Disc florets 30-80+, bisexual, fertile; corollas usually yellow, orange, or orange-yellow, sometimes ochroleucous or white [brick-colored, purplish], tubes longer than or equaling campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect or recurved, lance-linear (anther collars cylindric) ; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous, apices rounded-truncate. Cypselae ± cylindric, 10-ribbed or -nerved, glabrous or puberulent; pappi persistent, of 30-60+, white, whitish, or brownish, barbellulate bristles (equaling or slightly exceeding involucres, sometimes exceeding involucres to 10 mm in T. palustris). x = 24.[44] [more]

Tetradymia

Shrubs, mostly 30-200 cm. Stems 1-5+, erect to spreading (tomentose to pannose or glabrous, often spiny). Leaves (usually with fascicles of secondary leaves in axils of the primary; primaries sometimes becoming spines) cauline; alternate; sessile (or obscurely petiolate) ; blades obscurely palmately nerved (usually 1-nerved), linear to filiform, narrowly lanceolate, or oblanceolate, margins entire, faces glabrous or lanate to tomentose, sometimes glabrescent. Heads discoid, (1-3) in distil axils or (3-8) in corymbiform clusters. Calyculi 0. Involucres turbinate to cylindric or hemispheric, 3-10+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 4-6 in 1-2 series, erect, distinct, mostly oblong to ovate or lanceolate, equal or subequal, margins obscurely scarious. Receptacles flat, foveolate, epaleate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 4-9, bisexual, fertile; corollas cream to bright yellow, tubes longer than funnelform or abruptly dilated throats, lobes 5, recurved, linear to lanceolate; style branches stigmatic in 2 lines, apices usually truncate to rounded-truncate, sometimes truncate-penicillate (appendages essentially 0). Cypselae prismatic to obconic or fusiform, obscurely 5-ribbed, glabrous or hirsute to densely pilose (hairs often obscuring pappi) ; pappi 0 or of 70-150 bristles or of 20-30, white to stramineous, subulate to setiform scales. x = 30.[45] [more]

Tetragonotheca

Perennials, mostly 30-120 cm. Stems erect. Leaves basal and/or cauline; mostly opposite; petiolate, subpetiolate, or sessile (bases sometimes connate-perfoliate) ; blades lanceolate, ovate, rhombic, or rounded-deltate, sometimes pinnatifid, ultimate margins usually toothed, faces glabrate, sparsely hispidulous, or puberulent, gland-dotted. Heads radiate, borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays. Involucres obpyramidal to hemispheric, 12-25+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 10-25+ in ± 2 series (outer 4 broadly lanceolate, foliaceous, the inner ovate to lanceolate, smaller, more scarious, each subtending a ray floret). Receptacles conic, paleate (paleae persistent, lanceolate to lance-ovate, flat or weakly conduplicate, apices acute). Ray florets 6-21+, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow (often with reddish nerves). Disc florets 25-150+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes (basally dilated) much shorter than ampliate, cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae ± ovoid or plumply 4- or 5-angled, finely 32-40-ribbed, sparsely strigose or glabrous; pappi 0, or of 1-10+ subulate to acerose scales (to 0.5 mm), or of 16-30, ± spatulate scales (0.5-2 mm). x = 17.[46] [more]

Tetramolopium

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Thesium

Herbs perennial or annual, slender, sometimes subshrubs, often root hemiparasites of grasses, ± evergreen. Stems green. Leaves alternate, usually sessile, usually linear or, sometimes, scale-like, 1-3-veined, lateral veins not apparent. Inflorescences apparently terminal, usually racemelike, often paniculate, less often cymose (or axillary and 1-flowered) ; bracts and bracteoles leaflike, sometimes partly adnate to pedicels; bracteoles 1 or 2 and opposed, rarely 4, sometimes absent. Flowers bisexual, white or yellowish green; perianth tube connate to ovary, limb campanulate, cylindric, funnelform, or tubular, usually deeply (4 or) 5-lobed, lobes valvate, usually with a tuft of hair behind each stamen. Stamens (4 or) 5, usually on the base of lobes; filaments not exserted; anthers ovoid or ellipsoid, cells parallel, dehiscence longitudinal. Disk superior, inconspicuous or connate to base of perianth tube. Ovary inferior, stalked or sessile; ovules 2 or 3, pendulous from apex of placenta, usually flexuous or corrugate. Style long or short; stigma capitate or inconspicuously 3-lobed. Fruit a small nut, with persistent perianth at apex, exocarp dry, membranous [rarely fleshy], endocarp bony or slightly rigid, usually ridged; embryo in the middle of fleshy endosperm, erect or slightly curved, usually oblique, terete, radicle as long as or slightly longer than cotyledons.[47] [more]

Thorncroftia

Thunia

Thunia is a of orchids (family Orchidaceae) and the only genus of the subtribe Thuniinae. The genus comprises 6 species, native to Southeast Asia. It is abbreviated Thu in trade journals. [more]

Thymophylla

Thymophylla is a perennial flowering plant. [more]

Tiarella

The Foamflowers (Tiarella) are a popular genus of wildflower and garden plants. They belong to the Saxifrage family (Saxifragaceae). Some species are: [more]

Tithonia

Annuals, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs [trees], 70-500[-700] cm. Stems erect, branched. Leaves all or mostly cauline; opposite (proximal) or mostly alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades often (1-), 3-, or 5-nerved, mostly deltate or pentagonal [lanceolate, linear], sometimes 3- or 5-lobed, bases ± truncate or auriculate [attenuate] (sometimes decurrent onto petioles), ultimate margins serrate to crenate, faces glabrate, ± hirsute, pilose, soft-pubescent, or villous, often gland-dotted. Heads borne singly (peduncles usually distally dilated, fistulose). Involucres campanulate to hemispheric, 10-20+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 12-28+ in 2-5 series (linear to broadly rounded, unequal to subequal, apices acute to rounded). Receptacles hemispheric to convex, paleate (paleae persistent, embracing cypselae, striate, ± 3-toothed, middle teeth larger, stiff, acute or acuminate to aristate). Ray florets 8-30, neuter; corollas yellow or orange. Disc florets 40-120[-200+], bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than throats (bases of throats bulbous and hairy), lobes 5, ± triangular (anthers black, brown, or tan, bases cordate-sagittate, appendages ovate; style branches relatively slender, appendages penicillate or lanceolate to attenuate). Cypselae (black or brown) ± compressed or flattened, often 3- or 4-angled or biconvex, ± cuneiform in silhouette (sometimes with basal elaiosomes) ; pappi 0, or ± coroniform (of ± connate scales, 1-2 scales sometimes subulate to aristate). x = 17.[48] [more]

Trichanthemis

Trichocoronis

Annuals or perennials, 10-30 cm (aquatic or subaquatic). Stems decumbent to erect, branched from bases or ± throughout (sometimes rooting at proximal nodes). Leaves cauline; mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate) ; sessile; blades usually 1-3-nerved from near bases, oblong to elliptic or lanceolate, margins usually ± dentate (at least distally), faces glabrous or sparsely pilose to pilosulous and glabrescent, sometimes minutely gland-dotted. Heads discoid, borne singly or in loose or open, corymbiform arrays. Involucres mostly hemispheric or broader, 3-4(-5) mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 18-30 in 2-3 series, obscurely 3-4-nerved, lanceolate, ± equal (herbaceous). Receptacles convex to conic, epaleate (warty). Florets 75-125; corollas whitish or pinkish to purplish, throats tubular-funnelform (lengths ca. 2 times diams.) ; styles: bases not enlarged, glabrous, branches linear-filiform (distally densely papillose). Cypselae weakly fusiform, 4-5-ribbed, scabrellous on ribs; pappi persistent, of 2-6+ laciniate or fimbriate to setiform scales or coarsely barbellate bristles. x = 15.[49] [more]

Trichogonia

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Tridactylina

Tridactylina is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. [more]

Tridax

Perennials [annuals], 10-40[-80+] cm. Stems procumbent to ascending. Leaves basal and/or cauline; opposite; petiolate [sessile]; blades deltate, lanceolate, lance-ovate, or ovate, often pinnately or palmately lobed, ultimate margins coarsely toothed to subentire, faces glabrate, hirsute, scabrellous, or strigillose. Heads radiate [discoid], borne singly [in ± cymiform arrays]. Involucres cylindric to hemispheric, 4-8 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 11-15+ in 2-3+ series (outer usually shorter, more herbaceous, the inner often scarious). Receptacles convex to conic, paleate (paleae ± persistent, lance-linear, scarious, weakly conduplicate, often apically toothed). Ray florets [0-]3-8[-13], pistillate, fertile; corollas pale yellow [white or purplish]. Disc florets [20-]40-80+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellowish [whitish or purplish], tubes shorter than cylindric or funnelform throats, lobes 5, usually deltate [sometimes rays 0 and corollas of peripheral florets ± bilabiate]. Cypselae obconic to obpyramidal, 3-, 4-, or 5-angled, densely piloso-sericeous [glabrous, villous]; pappi [sometimes wanting in rays] persistent, of [10-]20[-40], plumose [ciliate], setiform scales. x = 10.[50] [more]

Tripleurospermum

Tripleurospermum is a genus in the family Asteraceae in the tribe Anthemideae. The classification of the 38 annual and herbaceous perennial species is problematic. Most of the species are from Europe and temperate Asia although a few are from North America and North Africa. The species are placed in Matricaria by some authors. Plants typically have lobed leaves that are composed of one to three opposite pairs cut almost to the leaf mid rib: they have indehiscent one celled fruits that have 3-ribs and two resinous glands at the base, Matricaria species are distinguished from these species by lacking fruits with 3-ribs and the two glands. [more]

Tripteris

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Trisetaria

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Tritonia

Tritonia refers to a genus. The name derives from the god Triton. It may refer to: [more]

Tussilago

Tussilago is a genus of plants. T. farfara is the coltsfoot. Many of the species are often placed in other genera, such as Homogyne, Petasites or Adenostyles. [more]

Urolepis

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Ursinia

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Valdivia

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Verbesina

Crownbeard is the common name of Verbesina, a genus of flowering plants, in the daisy family (Asteraceae). They bear yellow flowers similar to small sunflowers. The name Verbesina refers to the similarity of the foliage to that of the (unrelated) verbena. [more]

Viguiera

Viguiera is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. A plant in this genus may be known as a goldeneye. These are herbs to bushy shrubs and they bear yellow or orange daisylike flowers. There are about 150 species native to the New World. [more]

Viscum

Viscum is a genus of about 70-100 species of mistletoes, native to temperate and tropical regions of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in its own family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be correctly placed within a larger circumscription of the sandalwood family, Santalaceae. [more]

Wagenitzia

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Wedelia

Wedelia is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Werneria

Werneria (Smalltongue Toads) is a genus of true toads endemic to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. [more]

Wyethia

Perennials, 15-60(-100) cm (taproots relatively massive; caudices seldom branched). Stems erect (or bending erect from bases), branched mostly from bases. Leaves basal and cauline; alternate; usually petiolate (basal), sometimes sessile; blades (usually pinnately nerved, basal larger than cauline) ± deltate, elliptic-ovate, lanceolate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear, or oblong-ovate, bases truncate to cuneate, margins usually entire, rarely dentate to serrate (sometimes ciliate), faces glabrous or hairy (sometimes gland-dotted or finely stipitate-glandular). Heads radiate, borne singly or 2-5(-8+) in ± corymbiform to racemiform arrays. Involucres hemispheric to campanulate or turbinate, 12-60+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 12-36(-48) in 2-3+ series (subequal to unequal, outer sometimes foliaceous, much larger than inner). Receptacles flat to convex, paleate (paleae conduplicate, at least bases, papery). Ray florets 5-25+, pistillate, fertile; corollas mostly yellow (cream to white in W. helianthoides). Disc florets 35-150+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes much shorter than cylindric throats; lobes 5, ± deltate to lanceolate (style branches stigmatic in 2 barely distinct lines, appendages ± filiform). Cypselae ± prismatic, weakly 3-4-angled (faces glabrous or hairy) ; pappi 0, or persistent, coroniform (usually lacerate) or of 1-4+ ovate to subulate, erose to lacerate (often basally connate) scales. x = 19.[51] [more]

Xanthium

Cockleburs (Xanthium) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia. [more]

Xerochrysum

Xerochrysum (syn. Bracteantha) is a genus of six species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Australia. [more]

Xylorhiza

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Yushania

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]

Zaluzianskya

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Zingeria

Zinnia

Zinnia is a genus of 20 species of annual and perennial plants of family Asteraceae, originally from scrub and dry grassland in an area stretching from the American Southwest to South America, but primarily Mexico, and notable for their solitary long-stemmed flowers that come in a variety of bright colors. [more]

Zyrphelis

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At least 11 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zyrphelis.

More info about the Genus Zyrphelis may be found here.

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Footnotes

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  5. Linda E. Watson "Chamaemelum". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 14, 26, 487, 496. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  23. Bruce G. Baldwin, Susan J. Bainbridge, John L. Strother "Layia". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 255, 259, 260, 262, 263, 264. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  30. Guy L. Nesom "Omalotheca". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 58, 387, 429, 438, 439. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  41. David M. Spooner "Simsia". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 135, 140. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  42. John P. Janovec, Theodore M. Barkley  "Sinosenecio". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 542, 618, 619. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  49. Guy L. Nesom "Trichocoronis". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 460, 487, 488. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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  51. William A. Weber "Wyethia". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 65, 66, 100. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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