Category:Asteraceae
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| A poster with 12 different species of Asteraceae from the subfamilies Asteroideae, Cichorioideae and Carduoideae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl[2] |
| Type genus | |
| Aster | |
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Asteroideae Lindley | |
| Diversity | |
| 1,911 genera | |
| Synonyms | |
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Compositae Giseke Source: GRIN[3] | |
Asteraceae is an economically important family, providing products such as cooking oils, lettuce, sunflower seeds, artichokes, sweetening agents, coffee substitutes and herbal teas. Several genera are of horticultural importance, including pot marigold, Calendula officinalis, Echinacea (cone flowers), various daisies, fleabane, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums. Asteraceae are important in herbal medicine, including Grindelia, yarrow, and many others.[4] A number of species are considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.[5]
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Uses
Commercially important plants in Asteraceae include the food crops Lactuca sativa (lettuce), Cichorium (chicory), Cynara scolymus (globe artichoke), Helianthus annuus (sunflower), Smallanthus sonchifolius (yacón), Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) and Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke). Plants are used as herbs and in herbal teas and other beverages. Chamomile, for example, comes from two different species: the annual Matricaria chamomilla (German chamomile) and the perennial Chamaemelum nobile (Roman chamomile). Calendula (known as pot marigold) is grown commercially for herbal teas and potpourri. Echinacea is used as a medicinal tea. The wormwood genus Artemisia includes absinthe (A. absinthium) and tarragon (A. dracunculus). Winter tarragon (Tagetes lucida), is commonly grown and used as a tarragon substitute in climates where tarragon will not survive.
References
- ↑ Viviana D. Barreda, Luis Palazzesi, Maria C. Tellería, Eduardo B. Olivero, J. Ian Raine and Félix Forest (2015). "Early evolution of the angiosperm clade Asteraceae in the Cretaceous of Antarctica". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 10989–10994. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423653112. PMC 4568267. PMID 26261324.
- ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, retrieved 10 December 2010
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). "Family: Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl, nom. cons". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
- ↑ "Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases". ars-grin.gov.
- ↑ "dandelion Taraxacum officinale". Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
Acknowledgements
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Pages in category "Asteraceae"
The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total.
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- Calendula officinalis
- Cardoon
- Carthamus tinctorius
- Chamaemelum nobile
- Chicory
- Chrysanthemum
- Cichorium endivia
- Cichorium intybus
- Cichorium pumilum
- Cirsium arvense
- Cirsium dissectum
- Cirsium edule
- Cirsium setidens
- Coreopsis bigelovii
- Crassocephalum
- Crassocephalum biafrae
- Crassocephalum crepidioides
- Crassocephalum rubens
- Cynara cardunculus
- Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus