Detail of a shrubby everlasting daisy showing several flower-heads. In the lower right corner is a blackish ant with worryingly large, serrated mandibles.

Ozothamnus stirlingii with bull ant sitting on the capitulescence. Photographed two weeks ago in Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory.

#asteraceae #compositae

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Morning BSky Todays episode the 5 Minute Families is #Asteraceae #Compositae AKA #Daisy #Aster Family join me today & brush up your #Botany & #WildFlower #identification were we cover in detail another family. Please lend support by subscribing on youtube to keep channel going youtu.be/GHkYFG7g5GU

First page of article, including title: "Hecastocleis shockleyi (Hecastocleideae), the desert enigma"

A close-up image of a bee on a flower of Hecastocleis shockleyi

Very excited to have a new publication out in the most beautiful journal in the world, Capitulum! #Compositae #Hecastocleis #Asteraceae #synantherology
www.compositae.org/capitulum_04...

Phylogenomics and genetic admixture of the invasive fireweed complex (Senecio inaequidens–Senecio madagascariensis) at a global scale - Biological Invasions The southern African Senecio inaequidens–S. madagascariensis complex, (‘fireweed complex’), contains several species that have established as weeds outside of their native ranges. Senecio madagascarie...

We have expanded our target capture dataset of the Senecio inaequidens - S. madagascariensis complex to a global scale. More clarity on the areas of origin of invasive madagascariensis, but also raising new questions.

doi.org/10.1007/s105...
@biolinvasions.bsky.social
#asteraceae #compositae #weeds

Cotula turbinata is everywhere here in Perth. Introduced from South Africa; member of tribe Anthemideae, i.e., a relative of chamomile and chrysanthemum.

It is one of those plants that look quite generic from a distance but intricate and pretty when you look more closely. #asteraceae #compositae

A plant with succulent leaves that have a reddish hue, and yellow daisy flower-heads.

Can't help myself: bought another succulent daisy at the farmers market yesterday. Othonna capensis. #asteraceae #compositae

A plant with bipinnate leaves and terminal, spike-like capitulescences of light greenish capitula.

Ambrosia tenuifolia at Corrigan's Beach, New South Wales. #asteraceae #compositae

More links in the daisy chain: morphology and molecules delimit two new species in Coronidium and two in Leucozoma (Asteraceae; Gnaphalieae) Taxonomic uncertainty in Coronidium has existed since its original circumscription. Recent molecular phylogenetic analyses inferred Coronidium to be non-monophyletic and composed of four distinct clad...

Two new species in Coronidium and two in Leucozoma (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) - another thesis chapter of Tim Collins published!
doi.org/10.1071/SB24...

#daisies #compositae #asteraceae

Detail of flower-head of the Australian alpine daisy Erigeron conyzoides, which is here synonymised under the widespread northern hemisphere species complex Erigeron acris.

Synonymisation of Erigeron conyzoides under E. acris (Asteraceae: Astereae), with a key to Australian Erigeron.

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#asteraceae #compositae #taxonomy

More links in the daisy chain: morphology and molecules delimit two new species in Coronidium and two in Leucozoma (Asteraceae; Gnaphalieae) Taxonomic uncertainty in Coronidium has existed since its original circumscription. Recent molecular phylogenetic analyses inferred Coronidium to be non-monophyletic and composed of four distinct clad...

New species in Coronidium and Leucozoma (Asteraceae; Gnaphalieae). Another thesis chapter of my former PhD student Tim Collins published! doi.org/10.1071/SB24...

#daisies #asteraceae #compositae

Key to the tribes of the Compositae family

Thanks to Mauricio Bonifacino and Matt Taylor (Identic), the Lucid Key to the tribes of Compositae is now back online after having disappeared from the web for a few years:

keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/trib...

#compositae #daisies #asteraceae #TICA

This new species of daisy looks amazing. Just look at those ray florets! #asteraceae #compositae

Un poco de sistemática morfológica para complicarse la vida o divertirse 🌱🥳

Adenostemma y sus especies complejas acompañándome este verano. Vamos que sale esa tesis con fritas 🍟🍟

#adenostemma #asteraceae #taxonomy #compositae

Mum Show Opening Lecture

Sylvia Plath's birthday is a good day to advertise that I'm giving the Smith College Botanic Garden's Annual Mum Show Lecture next week (streaming / in person)! It's about #plath, The Bell Jar, mums, my grandma, plant physiology, and more. #compositae garden.smith.edu/news-events/...