[Wildflowers East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]
The Sunflower Family East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington
Asteraceae
Crag Aster: Ionactis alpina (Aster scopulorum)
Members of the Sunflower Family Found East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington:
Plants with Shrub-like growth.
Flower Heads Look Like Dandylions:
These members of the Sunflower Family consist of a head of many
long-petaled ray flowers, typically yellow, orange or white.
Flower Heads Look Like Daisies or
Sunflowers:
or 
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.
Flower heads look like pincushions
or buttons:
or 
Flower Heads often look like fabric buttons or pincushions when
viewed from above. The flowers are all rayless, and are entirely disk flowers.
[Wildflowers East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]
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