Linnaeus named the plant after his mentor, Olaf Rudbeck. Black-Eyed Susans are members of the Asteraceae (sunflower) family, which is the largest of all flowering plant families on earth. There are ...

The Asteraceae family is one of the largest plant families in the world. Its 20,000-plus members are found on every continent but Antarctica and include daisies, sunflowers, dandelions, lettuce ...

Pot marigold is a plant that belongs to the daisy (Asteraceae) family. It's been used for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Calendula is a small bushy plant that has light green leaves and ...

Here, I report an analysis of variance components for capitulum characters in the seed heteromorphic Asteraceae Crepis sancta.

A 45 million-year-old fossil flower found in northern Argentina has uncovered the evolutionary roots of Earth’s most populous plant family. Called Asteraceae, the family includes dozens of ...

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The sunflower plant family (Asteraceae) is characterized by head-like inflorescences (capitula) that resemble single solitary flowers but are typically composed of tens to hundreds of flowers that are ...

How does the classical ABCE model of flower development apply in Asteraceae? The presence of three distinct types of flowers in its inflorescence (ray, trans and disc flowers) makes Gerbera a unique ...

Crassocephalum crepidioides (ebolo in Yoruba) belongs in the family Asteraceae. The stem is erect, round and hairy. Leaves are alternate, deeply-lobed and oval-shaped with toothed margins. The ...