Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Rough Burr-Daisy
Description
Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Physical Description
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: mauve , near white, rose, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 12-18" tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,397 meters (0 to 4,583 feet).[1]
Biology
Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Astereae
()
- Subtribe:
Brachycominae
()
- Genus:
Calotis
()
- R. Brown, 1820
- Specific epithet:
scabiosifolia
- Sond. ex F.Muell.
- Botanical name: - Calotis scabiosifolia Sond. ex F.Muell.
- Specific epithet:
scabiosifolia
- Sond. ex F.Muell.
- Genus:
Calotis
(
- Subtribe:
Brachycominae
(
- Tribe:
Astereae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G,
IPNI, Tropicos, New South Wales Flora
Online, LCR Editor. GCC LSID:
urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:0391503A-B6EA-4369-976A-F3195CD2624B
Last scrutiny: 12-Nov-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Calotis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. cuneifolia (Wedgeleaf) · C. erinacea (Tangled Burr-Daisy) · C. hispidula (Bogan-Flea) · C. lappulacea (Yellow Burr-Daisy) · C. scabiosifolia (Rough Burr-Daisy) · C. scapigera (Tufted Burr-Daisy)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Australian grasses (with illustrations) by Fred. Turner. Vol. 1. Sydney, C. Potter, Government Printer, 1895. url .
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 147, p. 173, p. 648.
- The Queensland flora: Queensland, Printed by H. J. Diddams & co., 1899-1902. url .
- The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 142, p. 160.
- Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia: The Society, 1880-1889. url p. 107.
- Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 182, p. 329.
- Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia: The Society, 1890-1903. url p. 112.
Notes
Contributors
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 27, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8746324
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-904
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851975
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1006580
Footnotes
- Mean = 415.590 meters (1,363.484 feet), Standard Deviation = 415.550 based on 203 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
