Eight Asteraceae to Know and Love
(A sampling of distinctive fall-flowering
members of the Asteraceae)
A description of the family (from Lowden, 1997)
Herbs; rarely dioecious; leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled; flowers bisporangiate, monosporangiate, or neutral,
epigynous, in dense heads on a common receptacle surrounded by an involucre of bracts (phyllaries); pappus in position of calyx, of hairs, bristles, awns, teeth, or scales. or cuplike. or absent; corolla tubular and usually regular, usually 5-lobed, or ligulate and zygomorpbic (tubular at base but flat and straplike above); heads discoid (of flowers with only tubular corollas); ligulate (of flowers with only ligulate corollas). or radiate (of a central disk of flowers with tubular corollas surrounded by one or more series of flowers with ligulate corollas, called ray flowers); flowers subtended by bracts (pales), receptacle then chaffy, or flowers bractless, receptacle then naked; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla, filaments separate, anthers usually united around the style or rarely separate or scarcely united; carpels 2. united; ovary 1-1oculed with 1 ovule; style 1, usually 2-branched at apex; stigmas 2; fruit an achene. (Compositae. nom. altern.)
Introduction to the family and the Lowden Franklin County Flora.
Sawtoothed sunflower (Helianthus grosesseratus)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HELIGROS-portrait-3sep01-claridon-540x720.jpg)
sawtoothed sunflower
sneezeweed (Helenium autuminale)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sneezeweed-480x720.jpg)
sneezeweed
pilewort (Erechtites hieraciifolius)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ERECHIER-f-t-b-k-Scudderia-furcata-27Aug10-Killdeer-Marion-Cty-OH-480x720.jpg)
pilewort
tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tall-coreopsis-540x720.jpg)
tall coreopsis
stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/stiff-goldenrod-480x720.jpg)
stiff goldenrod
gray goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/gray-goldenrod-480x720.jpg)
gray goldenrod
tall boneset (Eupatorium altissimum)
![](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tall-boneset-540x720.jpg)
tall boneset
chicory (Cichorium intybus)
![Cichorium intybus](https://ohioplants.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Cichorium-intybus.jpg)
chicory