11-1-25
Camphorweed
(Heterotheca subaxillaris)
San José Island, TX

#texasphotography #wildlifephotography #Camphorweed #flowers #botany #Heterotheca #nikon #nikond7500 #naturephotography #Astereae #Asteroideae #Asteraceae #Asterales #Texas #TX #Heterothecasubaxillaris #petals

A lovely dahlia ~ taken last summer on a flower walk

#dahlia #asterales #bloomscrolling #flowersofbluesky #flower #nature #pnw #photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #NightTracks

Léo Dupleix & Asterales:
🎵 Round Sky

#BBCRadio3 #LéoDupleix #Asterales

It’s here! Issue 4 is live today, featuring work from Sean Cho A, Sarah Mills, Allison Blevins, Jill Kitchen, Anthony Frame, Will Musgrove, Charles Jensen, Susan Barry-Schulz, Julia Biggs, Sheila Squillante, and Vishaal! #poetry #prose #visualart #literaryjournal #asterales

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3-14-25
Cretanweed
(Hedypnois rhagadioloides)

#tx #texas #nikon #nikond7500 #photography #botany #petals #Hedypnois #Asteraceae #Asterales #Asterids #floraphotography #flowers #plants

3-22-25
Daisy fleabane
(Erigeron annuus)
Boonville Heritage Park
Bryan, TX

#tx #texas #nikon #nikond7500 #photography #botany #petals #Asterales #Asteraceae #Erigeron #Asterids #Wildlife #floraphotography #flowers #plants

Issue 2 received some incredible art submissions, including these arresting images from Míša Hejná. We were stunned by the beauty here; make sure to check out Míša’s IG (@misprdlina) to see more! #asterales #visualart #literaryjournal

Nymphoides hydrophylla | crested floating-heart #Asterales #TaiwanFood en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphoi...

2/ Lettuce is in the aster family #Asterales and a plant immunity model since the ’90s. Blake Meyers, @michelmorelab and colleagues classified NLR phylogenetic clades and introduced concepts like type I & II based on evolutionary rates.

4-29-24
Firewheel
(Gaillardia pulchella)
Burton, TX

#Flowers #Flower #photography #texas #TX #nature #Texaswildlife #naturephotography #gaillardiapulchella #flora #petals #nikon #nikond7500 #gaillardia #asteraceae #asterales

Crassothonna capensis—A common house plant but still another odd looking Asteraceae from South Africa 🇿🇦 #Asterales

Photo of woody leafy branches with small, star-shaped yellow flowers.

New Zealand’s Corokia x virgatais a natural hybrid of C. buddleioides and C. cotoneaster. It's a woody shrub. The petals are basally connate and have adaxial fringed ligules, typical of the family. #Argophyllaceae #Asterales #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a shoot with large, strappy leaves and clusters of small white and pink flowers borne in panicles.

Close-up of an inflorescence branch with white, 5-merous flowers on pink pedicels.

Phellinaceae are New Caledonia endemics. They are dioecious, woody, subcanopy plants (litter-trappers?), with small flowers, free, valvate petals & a broad, sessile stigma. 📷: Phelline dumbeensis by Emilie Ducouret CCBYNCND4.0 #Asterales #Phellinaceae #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a leafy shoot bearing a single, white tubular flower with 5 corolla lobes that are highly crisped and fringed.

Alseuosmiaceae are woody plants of New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand & New Caledonia. Their flowers are usually tubular with fringed lobes. Fruit is a berry. This is the aptly named Crispiloba disperma by Rene CCBYNC4 via iNaturalist.
#Asterales #lesserknownAsterales #Alseuosmiaceae #Botany 🌾🧪

Photo of an herbaceous plant with simple, fleshy leaves and short, white scorpioid cymes.

Pentaphragmataceae are from S.E. Asia. They are fleshy herbs with two-ranked, asymmetric leaves. They have scorpioid cymes with sessile flowers & berry-like fruits. This is Pentaphragma horsfieldii. #Pentaphragmataceae #lesserknownAsterales #Asterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a rosette plant growing among pebbles. A large scape with a dense head of flowers is subtended by secondary scapes and smaller heads.

Photo of a rosette plant with a sessile head of flowers in the center of the rosette.

A couple more photos (from iNaturalist) of Calyceraceae just because they are so awesome!
1st photo: Gamocarpha macrocephala by Manlio Martínez Barona CC BY-NC4
2nd photo: Calycera monocephala by Catherine Fox CC BY-NC4
#lesserknownAsterales #Asterales #Calyceraceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of the flowers, which are zygomorphic with five petal lobes, spread like an open hand.

Asteraceae are cosmopolitan, but their closest relatives are not so widespread. Let’s look at some of the lesser-known families in the #Asterales. Let’s start with #Goodeniaceae, a family that is mostly Australian, but Scaevola is pantropical. 📷: S. taccada #tropicalbotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪