Pyrethrum vulgare (Golden Buttons)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Common Tansy, Garden Tansy, Golden Buttons, Tansy

Common Names in Finnish:

Pietaryrtti

Common Names in Italian:

Tanaceto

Common Names in Latin:

Flores Tanaceti, Herba Tanaceti

Common Names in Romanian:

Creaţă, Vetrice

Common Names in Russian:

Dikaja Rjabina, Pižma Obyknovennaja, дикая рябина, пижма обыкновенная

Description

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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.

Taxonomy

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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 ()
        Tribe: Anthemideae ()
        Subtribe: Tanacetinae ()
        Genus: Pyrethrum ()
        Specific epithet: vulgare - Boiss.
        Botanical name: - Pyrethrum vulgare Boiss.