Asteraceae     (Aster family)  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).

132 members in the Family




Annual Fleabane

Annual Wormwood

Arrow-Leaved Aster

Ashy Sunflower

Bearded Beggarticks

Black-Eyed Susan

Blanket Flower

Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod

Broadleaf Panicled Aster

Brown-Eyed Susan

Bull Thistle

Butterweed

Calico Aster

Canada Goldenrod

Canada Thistle

Chicory

Coltsfoot

Common Boneset

Common Burdock

Common Cocklebur

Common Groundsel

Common Quickweed

Common Ragweed

Common Sneezeweed

Common Sunflower

Common Yarrow

Compass Plant

Cornflower

Cosmos

Crooked Aster

Cup Plant

Daisy Fleabane

Dandelion

Devil's Beggarticks

Dwarf Joe-Pye Weed

Elephant's Foot

Elmleaf Goldenrod

False Daisy

False Sunflower

Feverfew

Field Thistle

Frost Aster

Garden Mum

Giant Ragweed

Giant Sunflower

Golden Ragwort

Grass-Leaved Goldenrod

Gray Goldenrod

Gray-Headed Coneflower

Green-Headed Coneflower

Hairy Cat's Ear

Hairy False Goldenaster

Heart-Leaved Aster

Hollow Joe-Pye Weed

Horseweed

Indian Blanket

Jerusalem Artichoke

Lanceleaf Coreopsis

Late Thoroughwort

Long-Bracted Tickseed Sunflower

Marigold

Mexican Sunflower

Mistflower

Mugwort

Narrow-Leaved Hawksbeard

New England Aster

Nipplewort

Nodding Bur-Marigold

Nodding Rattlesnakeroot

Northern Plains Blazing Star

Ox-Eye Daisy

Parasol Whitetop

Perennial Sowthistle

Philadelphia Fleabane

Pilewort

Plains Coreopsis

Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes

Prairie Coreopsis

Prairie Dock

Prickly Lettuce

Prickly Sowthistle

Purple Coneflower

Purple-Node Joe-Pye Weed

Purple-Stem Beggarticks

Quickweed

Riddell's Goldenrod

Roundleaf Ragwort

Safflower

Sawtooth Sunflower

Sessile Blazing Star

Shasta Daisy

Short's Aster

Showy Goldenrod

Small White Aster

Small-Flowered Leafcup

Smooth Blue Aster

Spanish Needles

Spotted Joe-Pye Weed

Spotted Knapweed

Stiff Goldenrod

Strawstem Beggar-Ticks

Sweet Black-Eyed Susan

Sweet Goldenrod

Sweetleaf

Tall Blazing Star

Tall Blue Lettuce

Tall Coreopsis

Tall False Hawksbeard

Tall Goldenrod

Tall Ironweed

Tall Rattlesnakeroot

Tall Thoroughwort

Tansy

Thin-Leaved Sunflower

Threadleaf Coreopsis

Two-Flower Dwarf Dandelion

White Lettuce

White Panicle Aster

White Sagebrush

White Snakeroot

Wholeleaf Rosinweed

Whorled Rosinweed

Wild Lettuce

Wild Quinine

Willowleaf Lettuce

Wingstem

Woodland Lettuce

Woodland Sunflower

Yellow Goatsbeard

Yellow King-Devil

Zigzag Goldenrod

Zinnia