Flora of Israel: Asteraceae | plant family
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.
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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:
Genus Anvillea, מרית Genus Arctotheca, ארקטותקה
Genus Artemisia, לענה:
Genus Aster, אסתר:
- Aster subulatus, Annual Saltmarsh Aster, אסתר מרצעני
Genus Asteriscus, כוכב:
- Asteriscus spinosus,Pallenis spinosa, Spiny Starwort, מוצית קוצנית
Genus Atractylis, חרשף: Genus Bellis, חננית: Genus Bidens, דו-שן
Genus Borrichia, בוריכיה
Atractylis carduus
Atractylis comosa
Bellis perennis
Bellis sylvestris