Golden aster

Golden aster
Chrysopsis villosa ruteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Astereae
Genus:	Heterotheca
Species
About 30, see text.

Golden asters, genera Heterotheca and Chrysopsis, are members of the plant family Asteraceae. These are annual and perennial herbs bearing daisylike flower heads with yellow disc florets and usually yellow ray florets.

Golden asters are often used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia lynx, Schinia nubila and Schinia saturata (all of which have been recorded on Heterotheca subaxillaris) and Schinia petulans (which feeds exclusively on Chrysopsis subulata).

Species include:

• Chrysopsis camporum - Prairie golden aster.
• Chrysopsis delaneyi - DeLaney's golden aster.
• Chrysopsis floridana - Florida golden aster.
• Chrysopsis fulcrata - Mountain camphorweed.
• Chrysopsis godfreyi - Godfrey's golden aster
• Chrysopsis gossypina - Cottony golden aster
• Chrysopsis graminifolia - Grass-leaved Golden-aster
• Chrysopsis highlandsensis - Highlands County golden aster
• Chrysopsis lanuginosa - Lynn Haven golden aster
• Chrysopsis latisquamea - Pineland golden aster
• Chrysopsis linearifolia - Narrowleaf golden aster
• Chrysopsis mariana - Maryland golden aster
• Chrysopsis pilosa - Soft golden aster
• Chrysopsis scabrella - Coastal plain golden aster
• Chrysopsis subulata - Scrubland golden aster
• Chrysopsis texana - Texas golden aster

• Heterotheca barbata - Spokane golden aster
• Heterotheca grandiflora - Telegraphweed
• Heterotheca inuloides - Mexican arnica
• Heterotheca monarchensis - monarch golden aster
• Heterotheca oregona - Oregon golden aster
• Heterotheca psammophila - Camphorweed
• Heterotheca sessiliflora - Sessileflower false golden aster
• Heterotheca shevockii - Kern Canyon false golden aster
• Heterotheca villosa - Hairy golden aster
• Heterotheca zionensis - Zion golden aster

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment: Heterotheca
• USDA Plants Profile: Chrysopsis
• "Heterotheca". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=37652. 
• "Chrysopsis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=202494. 

This Astereae article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · Categories: Astereae Asteraceae genera Astereae stubs Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат Mendicant Episodic Look at other dictionaries: golden aster — ☆ golden aster n. any of a genus (Chrysopsis) of North American plants of the composite family, with golden ray flowers …   English World dictionary golden aster — noun any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden yellow flower heads that resemble asters; throughout much of United States and into Canada • Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower • Hyponyms: ↑Maryland… …   Useful english dictionary golden aster — /goʊldən ˈæstə/ (say gohlduhn astuh) noun any plant of a North American genus, Chrysopsis, of aster like species with bright golden yellow flowers, especially a wildflower species, C. mariana, abundant in the eastern US …   golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S. [1905 10, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium grass-leaved golden aster — noun a variety of golden aster • Hypernyms: ↑golden aster …   Useful english dictionary Maryland golden aster — noun perennial golden aster of southeastern United States • Syn: ↑Chrysopsis mariana • Hypernyms: ↑golden aster …   Useful english dictionary sickleweed golden aster — noun a variety of golden aster • Hypernyms: ↑golden aster …   Useful english dictionary hairy golden aster — noun hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis • Syn: ↑prairie golden aster, ↑Heterotheca… …   Useful english dictionary prairie golden aster — noun hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis • Syn: ↑hairy golden aster, ↑Heterotheca villosa …   Useful english dictionary golden star — noun California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers • Syn: ↑golden stars, ↑Bloomeria crocea • Hypernyms: ↑liliaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Bloomeria, ↑genus Bloomeria * * * …   Useful english dictionary 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”