The family asteraceae or compositae known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family is the largest family of flowering plants, in terms of number of species. The family is divided into three subfamilies and a number of tribes. May 2014 the flower head of the asteraceae family is its iconic trait, yet little is known about its development. The asteraceae family, formerly referred to as the compositae family, are the daisy flowers and sun lovers. Recently, the international panel of botanists who rule on these things decided that all plant families ought to have the same ending aceae, and be named after a plant typical of the family, so the family is now called asteraceae after the type plant, the aster. Classification, diversity, and distribution of chilean asteraceae. The reports of folk medicine play an initial and important role for the novel drug development from natural sources. It is commonly called arum family, contain 115 genera and 2000 species. The sunflower family asteraceae is one of the largest families of flowering plants, consisting of approximately 1,100 genera and 25,000 species jeffrey, 1978.
Compositae asteraceae, aster family largest family of. Classification for kingdom plantae down to order asterales. Members of the family have also been studied in connection with the effect of climate change on character evolution in plants. The specialized design of the flowers and the inflorescence are. About 25 genera and over 140 species have been reported from india. The individual flowers can be one of several types. Taxonomists have assigned different systematic position to the family. Asteraceae plants of the aster or sunflower family previously known as the composite family. It is one of the largest families of flowering plants.
The plants cultivated for vegetables are colocasia esculenta arvi, kachalu or colocasia. Some are from pages developed by carolyn parker for the plant systematics course. Some members of this family are made up of only disc florets or only ray florets. Family asteraceae plant families australian national. Allergens and plants search enter a full or partial species name to find more information on one of over 1200 potentially allergenic plants. If you know the family, you know characters of hundreds. Apr 20, 2018 in asteraceae family the inflorescence is capitylum. Asteraceae, the sunflower family, is one of the easiest plant families to recognize. The plants are characterized by their composite flower heads and oneseeded achene fruits. Asteraceae is known as sunflower because this family member has flowers that are shaped like sunflowers. They are distinguished by having flower heads capitula which are made of hundreds or thousands of tiny individual flowers. The five petals eventually merge over the centre of the floret to protect the.
This family has about 25,000 different plant species, including many different varieties of daisy and aster, as well as the sunflower, yarrow, goldenrod, and dahlia. The inflorescence of asteraceae is so distinctive that the family was recognized as a distinct group early on, and given a name, compositae, that was so universally recognized that when the structure of family names was first formalized with the aeae suffix, it was agreed the. Asteraceae, sunflower family seventy six creek, 34 mi inside forest boundary, elko county, nv june 29, 1996 plants symbol. Taxonomic discussion on the asteraceae is included under the relevant tribes. The benefits of asteraceae brawijayaare commonly used as traditional medicines for towncertain diseases or to heal wounds.
The relevance of asteraceae family plants in most of the neuropsychiatric disorders treatment article pdf available in international journal of phytomedicine 81 january 2016 with 856 reads. The medicinal value of asteraceae family plants in terms of wound healing activity summary plants have been a great resource of medicinal products which are used for the treatment of several ailments. Daisies, lettuce, artichokes, dandelions, and thistles are just a few examples of the remarkable family asteraceae, a group of great. Plants in the large aster family asteraceae are annual, biennial, or perennial herbs, subshrubs, shrubs, vines, and trees with a compound inflorescence known as a flower head. Following are the important characteristics of poaceae family. With 418 genera and 24 species table 1, asteraceae is, numerically, the largest family in the flora of north america north of mexico. List of plants in the family asteraceae britannica. They have a unique type of inflorescence consisting of many tiny flowers aggregated together in a flower head a capitulum that forms a false flower. Within asterales, asteraceae is part of a clade corollas with more or less fused lateral veins joining midvein near lobe apices, thick integuments, no endosperm haustorium with the menyanthaceae. Here we give you all the garden plants with family as asteraceae. Ariff who is also a senior quality consultant and has worked in many hospitals across the globe, initiates it. Asteraceae compositae sunflower or aster family herbs, shrubs, trees and vines mostly herbs in temperate zones leaves alternate, opposite or whorled, simple, no stipules flowers bi or unisexual, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, referred to as florets two basic types of florets ligulate ray and tubular disc. Understanding the fundamentals of the flower head development will help construe the evolution of one of the most successful plant families.
Lady bird johnson wildflower center focused on protecting and preserving north americas native plants through native plant lists and image galleries, conservation, education, natural landscapes, seed collection millennium seed bank msb project, preserving and restoring native communities, spreading awareness on invasive species and gardening to attract wildlife. It includes the plants that are normally cultivated for ornamental flowers as well as for oil value. In this system the flowers are such that the stamens form a tube around the immature style, with their pollen surfaces facing inward. Many of them are spices used in traditional medicine to cure microbial infections. These form more than ten per cent of the total number of species of flowering plants. Asteraceae can be either simple or compoundleaved, opposite or alternate. This easy to grow native perennial blooms from late summer right up to the first frost and. Asteraceae compositae the asteraceae are herbs, shrubs, or less commonly trees and are arguably the largest family of flowering plants, comprising about 1,100 genera and 20,000 species that are characterized by having the flowers reduced and organized into an involucrate pseudanthium in the form of a head or capitulum. Various genera and individual species are known to reproduce by apomixis the setting of seed without fertilization, either completely or in addition to normal sexual means. Categories flowers, perennials tags aster, asteraceae. Achika1, david ebuka arthur1, igelige gerald1, adebiyi adedayo2. The older family name, compositae, comes from the fact that what appears to be a single flower is actually a composite of smaller flowers. The majority of asteraceae species are herbaceous, yet an important component of the family is constituted by shrubs or even trees occurring primarily in the tropical regions of north and south america, africa and madagascar and on isolated islands in the atlantic and pacific oceans.
About the classification report about the classification download. Flower heads in asteraceaerecruitment of conserved. You can also compare the above plants with the other plants with asteraceae family and get to know their characteristics as well to make a right choice. They might be herbs or shrubs, annuals or perennials, and sometimes treelike. Herbal adventures with susun s weed the asteraceae aster.
Characteristic features and economic importance of family. Click on the botanical name of any plant to go to the plant portrait. Asteraceae is the family with the greatest number of genera 153. Systematics, biology, utilization, devore and stuessy 1995 argued in favor of a sister group relationship between asteraceae and calyceraceae, mainly. Asteraceae or compositae is an exceedingly large and widespread family of flowering plants with more than 23,600 currently accepted species, spread across 1,620 genera and subfamilies. Asteraceae compositae sunflower or aster family herbs, shrubs, trees and vines mostly herbs in temperate zones leaves alternate, opposite or whorled, simple, no stipules flowers bi or unisexual, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, referred to as florets. Rainier national park august 4, 2000 plants symbol. The flower heads are commonly called daisies, and they are composed of multiple flowers, generally central disk flowers and petallike ray flowers, however, it is not. Very hardy, drought tolerant, lots of sun, long harvest period, likes manure. Family aasteracae is regarded as the most advanced and highly evolved in the plant kingdom. The aster family asteraceae is one of the largest angiosperm families, with more than 1,620 genera and 23,600 species of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees distributed throughout the world. Most species are herbs, but some are shrubs and a few are trees. The plants database includes the following 19 species of aster.
Asteraceae 2 taxonomic discussion on the asteraceae is included under the relevant tribes. With 20,000 members, the asteraceae aster means star family is one of the largest and most diverse of all plant families. Review articles the medicinal value of asteraceae family. I use the grin online query system to determine plant families. Members of the family have also been studied in connection with the effect of climate change on character evolution in. Click on names to expand them, and on p for plants profiles. Life scientific name with authority common name family. The family includes over 32,000 currently accepted species, in over 1,900 genera in subfamilies. Inflorescences in the asteraceae plant family, flower heads, or capitula, mimic single flowers but are highly compressed structures composed of. Asteraceae is an economically important family, providing products such as cooking oils, leaf vegetables like lettuce, sunflower seeds, artichokes, sweetening agents, coffee substitutes and herbal teas. Pdf the family asteraceae the daisy family is probably the largest plant family in the world.
With more than 32,000 species, the asteraceae is arguably the largest of plant families although closely rivalled by the orchidaceae. The leaf margins are frequently serrate or dentate, but they can be entire. You can choose the plant you like, and see the details about it. The list below shows the plants in my database listed as members of the asteraceae family. Vegetable plantvegetable plant families and page f their. Pdf asteraceae, also called compositae, is one of the largest angiospermic. It includes 77 genera and 3,020 species, out of which 21 genera and 125 species occur in india. The family comprises approximately twenty thousand species in 0.
As regards the world diversity of the family, only about 12% of genera have. Asteraceae or compositae are regarded as one of the most influential families. The uniqueness of the asteraceae family is that what first seems to be a. Some genera can be identified by a vegetative odor, either sweet like sunflower leaves or rather sharp and unpleasant like some temperate species of hieracium. The members of family are inhabitants of tropical and subtropical regions, they also extend into temperate lands.
Some traits typical of asteraceae predate evolution of the family as a distinct clade. Asteraceae, brassicaceae and poaceae characteristics and. Early evolution of the angiosperm clade asteraceae in the. They have tap root system and the roots are branched.
Armo4 arnica parryi gray parrys arnica asteraceae, sunflower family mt. Many of these characteristics are homologous for the entire group, whether comparing a blue whale to an amoeba or a human to a giant redwood tree. Family characteristics for plant families the following pages provide basic familiy characteristics for most of the families covered in the lab. Reveal of the university of maryland personal communication, 2000, the family contains nearly 1550 genera and 24,000 species. Furthermore, in more than half the members of the family, the flowers in. Members of the family are found in diverse habitats, from the high arctic tundra and polar deserts to the sonoran warmdesert scrub, and from alpine habitats to salt marshes. Hutchinson did not treat the family as the last evolved and put the asterales under the 6th series far before the last series laminales. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from. For family names, the modern tendency in taxonomy is to use the name of a familiar plant in a certain family and to add the suffix aceae to the name. The plants of wvdeps rain garden 1 perennials a perennial plant is a plant that lives for more than two years. Family asteraceae australian national botanic gardens.
The roots can be fibrous, adventitious, branched or stilt. Compositae the uniqueness of the aster or sunflower family is that what first seems to be a single large flower is actually a composite of many smaller flowers. The asteraceae may represent as much as 10% of autochthonous flora in many regions of the world. Modes of reproduction in the chinese asteraceae are known only fragmentarily. Each such head is ordinarily subtended by an involucre of small modified leaves bracts. Asteraceae is a healthcare consultancy company started by doctors for the doctors and hospital promoters. Asteraceae family is the largest family of angiosperms. In this way the family name asteraceae is made up by using the name aster and adding aceae. The stem may be underground as in rhizomes, cylindrical with conspicuous nodes and internodes, woody or herbaceous. The asteraceae, a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants, is the second largest family in the division magnoliophyta, with some 1,100 genera and over 20,000 recognized species, with around 350 genera and 2687 species in the u. Morphology of flowering plants family asteraceae or. Unifying features of eukaryotes below is a list of important features that are likely to have been present in the common ancestor of eukaryotes. Asteraceae compositae gallery wildflowers of the daisy family.
Grand canyon national park exotic plant species 1 of 6 32012 scientific name with authority common name. Biol 474 plant family descriptions university of alaska. Asteraceae or compositae, the sunflower family, is the largest family of flowering plants, encompassing some fifteen hundred genera and nearly twentyfive thousand species. Native plant database lady bird johnson wildflower center. These pages have been compiled from a combination of sources.
Asteraceae or compositae commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, is a very large and widespread family of flowering plants angiospermae. Research in the area of biological potential of natural products with antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, antiinflammatory, anticancer, antidiabetic and other properties, is focused on several plant species. Most members of the aster family in new england are annual or perennial herbs. With more than 1,620 genera and 23,600 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed throughout the world, asteraceae is one of the largest plant families. Asteraceae and relationships within asterales johannes lundberg the search for the sister of asteraceae at the compositae conference at kew in 1994 compos itae. The members tend to be aquatic but some are epiphytic. The asteraceae plant family is well known for being used in ethnomedicine and represents the most numerous family in plant kingdom. Pdf systematics, evolution, and biogeography of compositae. The most common characteristic of all these plants, is that what is usually.
The following is a list of some of the major genera and. Cheerful new england aster provides lateseason color with an abundance of bright flowers that attract bees and butterflies. Bentham and hooker placed the family under gamopetalae just after rubiales. The group has more than 23,000 currently accepted species, spread across 1,620 genera and 12 subfamilies. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles. But thats only a few, compared to the family were about to meet. From fossil records, it appears that this family developed quite.
Documentation of invasive alien weeds of family asteraceae. Asteraceae, the aster, daisy, or composite family of the floweringplant order asterales. For some individuals allergies to asteraceae plants can occur and are best avoided. Asteraceae or compositae is an exceedingly large and widespread family of angiospermae. The asteraceae the sunflowers are the largest living plant family with about 1600 genera and 23 000 species distributed on all continents except antarctica jeffrey 2007. Identification of asteraceae family authorstream presentation. The largest family of flowering plants is the ubiquitous sunflower family asteraceae or compositae.
Classification for kingdom plantae down to family asteraceae. Pdf the relevance of asteraceae family plants in most of. The most obvious and outstanding general feature of asteraceae is that the flowers are grouped characteristically into compact inflorescences heads that superficially resemble individual flowers. The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The asteraceae compositae is the richest vascular plant family. It allows for the comparison of single flowers against flower heads. Sunflowers, coneflowers, goldenrods, and many other wildflowers belong to this family. Types of wild plant of asteraceae family potentially as.
Two types of florets ie disc floret in the centeral part and ray floret towards the peripheral part are present. As regards the world diversity of the family, only about 12% of genera have been studied using cytoembryology to identify the reproduction system. This family includes 900 genera and about,000 species. The asteraceae family, also referred to as the compositae family, is one of the largest families of flowering plants. The genus antennaria pussytoes, well known in the northern hemisphere, is dioecious, and some of the species are represented in large parts of their range only by. Virus induced gene silencing as a genetic tool in the asteraceae family. For example, you can find chenopods searching on cheno no quotes as latin name. Asteraceae grow new england aster for sensational summer and fall color.