Interesting Facts
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.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 773 meters (0 to 2,536 feet).[1]
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:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
()
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G,
IPNI, Tropicos, Euro+Med. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:DE9A0554-D006-4D2A-ACD0-365A414EC0FE
Last scrutiny: 20-Aug-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Inula
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
I. britannica (British Yellow-Head) · I. britannica var. chinensis (British Yellowhead) · I. conyza (Ploughmans Spikenard) · I. crithmoides (Golden Samphire) · I. ensifolia (Elecampane) · I. falcata (Sickleleaf Silkgrass) · I. helenium (Alant) · I. helenium 'Goliath' (Alant) · I. helenium 'Nana' (Dwarf Elecampagne) · I. hookeri (Elecampagne) · I. magnifica (Elecampane) · I. orientalis (Caucasian Elecampagne) · I. primulifolia (Primroseleaf Horseweed) · I. racemosa 'Sonnenspeer' (Elecampane) · I. royleana (Elecampane) · I. salicina (Willow-Leaf Yellow-Head)
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Further Reading
- A first report on the relations between climates and crops. By Cleveland Abbe. Washington [D.C.]: Govt. Print. Off., 1905. url p. 197.
- An encyclopaedia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a By J.C. Loudon. London, Printed for Longman, Ross, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. url p. 869.
- Annals of natural history. London, R. and J.E. Taylor, url p. 308, p. 308, p. 308.
- British journal of entomology and natural history. [London]: British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1988- url , p. 82.
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1918 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 299.
- Gardening. Chicago, the Gardening Co., 1892-1925. url p. 150, p. 324.
- Hand-list of herbaceous plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off. by Darling, 1902. url p. 601.
- Handbook of flower pollination based upon Hermann Müller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects'; tr. by J.R. Ainsworth Davis. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906. url , , , p. 544, p. 556, p. 558, p. 597.
- Handbook of flower pollination: based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' / Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906-09. url , , , , , , .
- International review of the science and practice of agriculture. Rome: International Institute of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases, 1916-1926. url .
- List of herbaceous perennials tested in the arboretum and botanic garden: central experimental farm, Ottawa, Canada, with descriptions of flowers, and other notes by W. T. Macoun. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1908. url p. 53.
- Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 114, p. 128, p. 138.
- Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 9 1900 Durham, N.C.: Published for the Club by the Seeman Printery, 1889- url p. 19, p. 414, p. 417, p. 418, p. 426, p. 427.
- Minimum areas for different vegetations, their determination from species-area curves. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1949. url p. 65.
- The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade. Chicago: American Florist Company, [1885-1931] url p. 1182, p. 1202, p. 140, p. 1425.
- The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 100, p. 462, p. 462.
- The Entomologist's monthly magazine. Oxford [etc.]Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Ltd. [etc.] url p. 164.
- The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 154, p. 29, p. 332, p. 556.
- The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 119, p. 205, p. 296, p. 57.
- The Phytologist: a botanical journal. London, William Pamplin, 1855-1863. url p. 469.
- The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany. London, John van Voorst, 1844-56. url p. 41, p. 829.
- The fertilisation of flowers. Translated and edited by D'Arcy W. Thompson, with a preface by Charles Darwin. LondonMacmillan1883 url p. 361.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- Bundesamt für Naturschutz / Zentralstelle für Phytodiversität Deutschland, Bundesamt fuer Naturschutz / Zentralstelle fuer Phytodiversitaet Deutschland
- Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
- European Environment Agency, EUNIS
- Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, National System of Proetcted Areas
- International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), EURISCO
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen
- SysTax, SysTax
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Lund Botanical Museum
- Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1672492
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-7509
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14375281
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:225926-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 746244
Footnotes
- Mean = 254.180 meters (833.924 feet), Standard Deviation = 177.070 based on 461 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
