Class Dicotyledoneae, dicots, מחלקה דו-פסיגיים
Family Asteraceae / Compositae M-R,
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.
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1 out of 5 albums of the Asteraceae / Compositae Family
2 out of 5 albums (letter C)
3 out of 5 albums (letter D-L)
5 out of 5 albums (letter S-Z)
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Genus Mantisalca, מנטיסלקה
Genus Matricaria, בבונג:
Genus Micropus, כתנן
Genus Notobasis, ברקן:
Genus Onopordum, חוחן:
Genus Ormenis, קחונית:
Genus Otanthus, לבנונית
Genus Pallenis, מוצית:
Genus Parthenium, פרתניון
Genus Phagnalon, צמרנית:
Genus Picnomon, בן-קוצן
Genus Picris, מררית:
Genus Pluchea, פלגית:
Genus Pseudognaphlium, לבדנית
Genus Ptilostemon, ארנין
Genus Pulicaria, פרעושית:
Genus Reichardia, תמריר:
Genus Rhagadiolus, כוכבן
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Pluchea dioscoridis
Pulicaria arabica
Pulicaria dysenterica
Reichardia tingitana
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