Aaronsohnia factorovskyi Anthemis leucanthemifoli Anthemis melampodina Anthemis palestina Anthemis pseudocotula Artemisia arborescens Artemisia monosperma Aster subulatus Asteriscus spinosus

Class Dicotyledoneae, dicots, מחלקה דו-פסיגיים Family Asteraceae / Compositae A-B, Sunflower Family, משפחת המורכבים The Aster or Sunflower Family is the second largest family of flowering plants; most usually herbs, but some shrubs, trees and climbers do exist.Plants of the family are composites of many small flowers in a disk-like flowerhead, each producing one seed; bisexual, bracts, two or more rows of bracts (modified leaves) beneath the flowers; the true sepals have been reduced to small scales, or often transformed into a hairy "pappus", or sometimes eliminated altogether; each disk flower, 5 united petals to form a corolla tube; 5 stamens, the filaments fused to the corolla, while the anthers are generally connate; pistil is made of two connate carpels; the ovary is positioned inferior and has one ovule; fruit an achene, one seed per fruit; each big petal, that ring the outside of the flower head, is called a "ray flower", often infertile, without stamens or a pistil, its petals are fused together and hanging to one side. Asteraceae / Compositae will have either disk flowers or ray flowers, or both. _______________________ 2 out of 5 albums (letter C) of the Asteraceae / Compositae Family 3 out of 5 albums (letter D-L) 4 out of 5 albums (letter M-R) 5 out of 5 albums (letter S-Z) _______________________ Genus Aaronsohnia, אהרונסוניה: Aaronsohnia factorovskyi, Faktorowsky's Aaronsonia, אהרווסונייה פקטורי Genus Acantholepis, עקצוץ Genus Achillea, אכילאה Genus Aetheorhiza, ניסנית Genus Ambrosia, אמברוסיה Genus Anacyclus, קחוינה Genus Anthemis, קחון: Anthemis leucanthemifoli, Coast Chamomile, קחוון החוף Anthemis melampodina, Negev Chamomile, קחוון הנגב Anthemis palestina, Israel's Chamomile, קחוון שחור-מוצים Anthemis pseudocotula, Common Chamomile, קחוון מצוי Genus Anvillea, מרית Genus Arctotheca, ארקטותקה Genus Artemisia, לענה: Artemisia arborescens, Tree Wormwood, לענה שיחנית, שיבה Artemisia monosperma, Prickly Wormwood, לענה חד-זרעית Genus Aster, אסתר: Aster subulatus, Annual Saltmarsh Aster, אסתר מרצעני Genus Asteriscus, כוכב: Asteriscus spinosus,Pallenis spinosa, Spiny Starwort, מוצית קוצנית Genus Atractylis, חרשף: Atractylis carduus, Yellow Distaff-thistle, חורשף צהוב Atractylis comosa, Feinbrunia speciosa, Beautiful Distaff-thistle, חורשף מצויץ Genus Bellis, חננית: Bellis perennis, חננית רב-שנתית Bellis sylvestris, Southern Daisy, חיננית הבתה Genus Bidens, דו-שן Genus Borrichia, בוריכיה ************************************************** Atractylis carduus Atractylis comosa Bellis perennis Bellis sylvestris