[The Sunflower Family East of the Cascade Mts.]

The Sunflower Family East of the Cascade Mts.

Asteraceae

Crag Aster, Lava Aster: Ionactis alpina (formerly Aster scopulorum)

Members of the Sunflower Family with Flowers like Daisies or Sunflowers:
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Flowers consist of a central disc of small, short petaled flowers often tightly packed together surrounded by a ring of longer petaled flowers. The longer, outside flowers may be white, yellow, pink, blue, or lavender.

1. Chamomile and Dogfennels: The Genus Anthemis -

2. Arnicas: The Genus Arnica

3. Asters: The Genus Aster

4. Balsamroots: The Genus Balsamorhiza -

5. English Daisy, Lawn Daisy: Bellis perennis -

6. Beggar-ticks: The Genus Bidens

7. Blepharipappus, Rough Eyelashweed: Blepharipappus scaber (Synonyms: Blepharipappus scaber ssp. laevis, Blepharipappus scaber ssp. scaber, Blepharipappus scaber var. scaber) - 3 to 5 three-forked ray flowers surrounding several disk flowers. Ray flowers white with 3 purplish rays on the underside of each ray. Many narrow stem leaves. Plants to 1 foot tall.

8. Hairy Goldaster Chrysopsis villosa: An upright to sprawling plant of sandy areas. Sometimes weedy. The leaves and stems are abundantly hairy. The flower heads are like yellow daisies.

9. Hall's Goldenweed: Columbiadora hallii -

10. Horseweeds: The Genus Conyza -

11. Columbia Coreopsis Coreopsis atkinsoniana (tinctoria) : Erect wildflowers to 2-3 feet tall. Flowers broad, showy, with yellow ray flowers that may be orangish at base. Leaves pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, linear. Flowers, stems, and leaves are hairless.

12. Gold Stars, Spring gold Crocidium multicaule : Low growing wildflowers to 8 inches tall. Small dimed-sized flower heads with yellow central disks and 8-13 yellow ray flowers. Spatulate basal leaves with alternate, thin stem leaves with scattered tufts of woolly hairs.

13. Owl's-claw, Sneezeweed, and Rubberweed: The Genus Hymenoxis -

14. White Eatonella: Eatonella nivea -

15. The Fleabanes or Daisies: The Genus Erigeron

16. Oregon Sunshine, Woolly Sunflower Eriophyllum lanatum : Numerous flower heads, each with a dime-sized yellow central disk surrounded by 8-14 yellow ray flowers. The upper stem leaves are linear, but the lower leaves are pinnately dissected. The leaves and stems are covered with gray, woolly hairs. A common plant of drier, often rocky slopes.

17. Blanket Flower Gaillardia aristata : Large flower heads with about 10 yellow, staghorn or 3-forked ray s surrounding ared dome of disk flowers. Leaves linear with short pairs of projecting lobes. 1-2 feet tall.

18. Gumweeds: The Genus Grindelia -

19. Sneezeweed: Helenium autumnale var. montanum -

20. Helianthella, Little Sunflower The Genus Helianthella -

21. Wild Sunflowers: The Genus Helianthus

22. Rabbitleaf, Hareleaf: Lagophylla ramosissima -

23. White Layia, White Tidy-tips Layia glandulosa: Flower heads with white, antler or 3-forked rays, and a globose, yellow central disk. Leaves linear to lobed.

24. Oxeye Daisy: Leucanthemum vulgare -

25. Hoary Aster: Macheranthera canescens var. incana

26. Tarweeds: The Genus Madia

27. Western Rattlesnake Root: Prenanthes alata -

28. Goldenweeds: The Genus Pyrrocoma

29. Butterweeds and Groundsels: The Genus Senecio

30. Goldenrods: The Genus Solidago

31. Goldenweeds: The Genus Stenotus

32. Lyall's Goldenweed: Tonestus lyallii (formerly Haplopappus lyallii)

33. Townsendias: The Genus Townsendia

34. Mule's Ears and Woolly Sunflowers: The Genus Wyethia


Paul Slichter