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List of Asteraceae genera

This is a list of genera in the plant family Asteraceae, the sunflowers. There are about 1050 more which are not yet listed.

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A

  • Aaronsohnia Warb. & Eig
  • Abrotanella Cass.
  • Acamptopappus (A.Gray) A.Gray - goldenhead
  • Acanthocephalus Kar. & Kir.
  • Acanthocladium F.Muell.
  • Acanthodesmos C.D.Adams & duQuesnay
  • Acantholepis Less.
  • Acanthospermum Schrank - starburr
  • Acanthostyles R.M.King & H.Rob.
  • Achaetogeron A.Gray
  • Achillea L. - yarrow
  • Achnophora F.Muell.
  • Achnopogon Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack
  • Achyrachaena Schauer - blow wives
  • Achyrocline (Less.) DC.
  • Achyropappus Kunth
  • Achyrothalamus O.Hoffm.
  • Acmella Rich. ex Pers. - spotflower
  • Acomis F.Muell.
  • Acourtia D.Don - desert peony
  • Acrisione B.Nord.
  • Acritopappus R.M.King & H.Rob.
  • Acroclinium A.Gray
  • Acroptilon Cass - hardheads, Russian knapweed
  • Actinobole Endl.
  • Actinoseris (Endl.) Cabrera
  • Actinospermum Elliott
  • Adenocaulon - trailplant
  • Adenophyllum - dogweed
  • Adenostemma - medicineplant
  • Ageratina - snakeroot
  • Ageratum - whiteweed
  • Agoseris - mountain dandelion
  • Almutaster - alkalai marsh aster
  • Amberboa
  • Amblyolepis
  • Amblyopappus
  • Ambrosia - bursage, ragweed
  • Ammobium
  • Ampelaster - climbing aster
  • Amphiachyris - broomweed
  • Amphipappus - chaffbush
  • Anacylus
  • Anaphalis - pearly everlasting
  • Ancistrocarphus - neststraw, woolly fishhooks
  • Anisocoma
  • Antennaria - pussytoes
  • Anthemis - Roman chamomile
  • Antheropeas - Easter bonnets
  • Aphanostephus - doze daisy
  • Arctium - burdock
  • Arctotheca - capeweed
  • Arctotis
  • Argyranthemum - dill daisy
  • Argyroxiphium - silversword
  • Arnica - arnica
  • Arnoglossum - Indian plaintain
  • Arnoseris
  • Artemisia - tarragon, sagebrush, sagewort, wormwood, mugwort
  • Asanthus - brickellbush
  • Aster
  • Astranthium - western daisy
  • Atractylis
  • Atrichoseris
  • Ayapana

B

  • Baccharis
  • Bahia
  • Baileya - desert marigold
  • Balduina - honeycombhead
  • Balsamita
  • Balsamorhiza - balsamroot
  • Baltimora
  • Barkleyanthus - willow ragwort
  • Bartlettia
  • Bebbia - sweetbush
  • Bellis - daisy
  • Benitoa
  • Berkheya
  • Berlandiera - greeneyes
  • Bidens - beggartick, devil's sticktight, Spanish needles
  • Bigelowia - rayless goldenrod
  • Blennosperma - stickyseed
  • Blepharipappus
  • Blepharizonia
  • Blumea - false oxtongue
  • Boltonia - doll's daisy
  • Borrichia - seaside tansy
  • Brachyactis - rayless aster
  • Brachyscombe
  • Bradburia
  • Brickellia - brickelbush
  • Brickelliastrum - brickellbush
  • Brintonia - mock goldenrod

C

  • Cacalia - Indian plantain
  • Cacaliopsis
  • Calendula - marigold
  • Callistephus
  • Calotis
  • Calycadenia - western rosinweed
  • Calycoseris - tackstem
  • Calyptocarpus
  • Canadanthus - mountain aster
  • Carduus - plumeless thistle
  • Carlina - carline thistle
  • Carminatia
  • Carphephorus - chaffhead
  • Carphochaete - bristlehead
  • Carthamus - distaff thistle
  • Castalis
  • Celmisia
  • Centaurea - knapweed, star thistle
  • Centipeda
  • Centratherum
  • Chaenactis - pincushion
  • Chaetadelpha - skeletonweed
  • Chaetopappa - least daisy
  • Chamaechaenactis
  • Chamaemelum - dogfennel
  • Chamomilla - chamomilla, pineapple weed
  • Chaptalia - sunbonnetts
  • Chloracantha - Nesom
  • Chondrilla
  • Chromolaena - thoroughwort
  • Chrysactinia
  • Chrysanthellum
  • Chrysanthemum
  • Chrysogonum
  • Chrysoma
  • Chrysopsis - goldenaster
  • Chrysothamnus - rabbitbrush
  • Cichorium - chicory
  • Cirsium - thistle
  • Clappia - clapdaisy
  • Clibadium
  • Cnicus - blessed thistle
  • Columbiadoria
  • Complaya
  • Condylidium - villalba
  • Conoclinium - thoroughwort, mistflower
  • Conyza - horseweed
  • Coreocarpus
  • Coreopsis - tickseed
  • Corethrogyne - sandaster
  • Cosmos
  • Cotula - waterbuttons
  • Crassocephalum - ragleaf
  • Crepis - hawksbeard
  • Critonia - thoroughwort
  • Crocidium - spring-gold
  • Croptilon - scratchdaisy
  • Crupina
  • Cyanopsis - knapweed
  • Cyanthillium - ironweed
  • Cymophora
  • Cynara - artichoke

D

  • Dahlia
  • Delairea - capeivy
  • Dendranthema - arctic daisy
  • Dichaetophora
  • Dicoria - twinbugs
  • Dicranocarpus
  • Dimeresia
  • Dimorphotheca - cape marigold
  • Dittrichia
  • Doellingeria - whitetop
  • Doronicum - false leopardbane
  • Dracopis - coneflower
  • Dubautia
  • Dugaldia
  • Dysodiopsis - dogfennel
  • Dyssodia - dogweed

E

  • Eastwoodia
  • Eatonella
  • Echinacea - coneflower
  • Echinops - globethistle
  • Eclipta
  • Egletes - tropic daisy
  • Elephantopus - elephantsfoot
  • Eleutheranthera
  • Emilia - tasselflower
  • Encelia - brittlebush
  • Enceliopsis - sunray
  • Engelmannia - Engelmann's daisy
  • Enydra - swampwort
  • Erechtites - burnweed
  • Ericameria - goldenbush, heath goldenrod
  • Erigeron - daisy, fleabane
  • Eriophyllum - woolly sunflower, Common Wooly Sunflower
  • Espeletia - frailejones, 'tree' from Ecuador
  • Eucephalus - Cascade Aster, eucephalus
  • Euchiton - cudweed
  • Eupatorium - Joe-Pye weed, thoroughwort, snakeweed
  • Euphrosyne
  • Eurybia - Nees aster
  • Euryops
  • Euthamia - goldentop
  • Evax - pygmy cudweed
  • Ewartia

F

  • Facelis - trampweed
  • Filago - cottonrose
  • Fitchia
  • Flaveria - yellowtops
  • Fleischmannia - thoroughwort
  • Florestina
  • lourensia - tarwort
  • Flyriella - brickellbush

G

  • Gaillardia - blanketflower
  • Galinsoga - gallant-soldier
  • Gamochaeta - everlasting
  • Garberia
  • Gazania
  • Geraea - desert sunflower
  • Gerbera - Gerbera or Transvaal daisy
  • Glyptopleura
  • Gnaphalium - cudweed
  • Gochnatia
  • Grindelia - gumweed
  • Guardiola
  • Guizotia
  • Gundelia
  • Gundlachia
  • Gutierrezia - snakeweed
  • Gymnosperma
  • Gymnostyles - burrweed
  • Gynura

H

  • Haplocarpha - onefruit
  • Haploesthes - false broomweed
  • Hartwrightia
  • Hasteola - false Indian plantain
  • Hazardia - bristleweed
  • Hebeclinium - thoroughwort
  • Hecastocleis
  • Hedypnois
  • Helenium - sneezeweed
  • Helianthella
  • Helianthus - sunflowers
  • Helichrysum - strawflower,everlasting
  • Heliomeris - false goldeneye
  • Heliopsis
  • Helminthia
  • Helminthotheca (obsolete)
  • Hemizonia - tarweed
  • Herrickia
  • Hesperevax - dwarf-cudweed
  • Hesperodoria - glowweed
  • Hesperomannia - island-aster
  • Heteranthemis - oxeye
  • Heterosperma
  • Heterotheca - false goldenaster, telegraph plant
  • Hieracium - hawkweed
  • Hofmeisteria
  • Holocarpha - tarweed
  • Holozonia
  • Hulsea - alpinegold
  • Hymenoclea - burrobrush, burrobush
  • Hymenopappus
  • Hymenothrix - thimblehead
  • Hymenoxys - rubberweed
  • Hypochaeris - catsear

I

  • Ichthyothere
  • Inula - yellowhead
  • Ionactis - Stiff-leaved Asters
  • Isocarpha - pearlhead
  • Isocoma - goldenbush, jimmyweed
  • Iva - marshelder, sumpweed
  • Ixeris

J

  • Jamesianthus
  • Jaumea
  • Jefea

K

  • Kalimeris - aster
  • Keysseria
  • Koanophyllon - thoroughwort
  • Koyamacalia
  • Krigia - dwarfdandelion

L

  • Lactuca - lettuce
  • Laennecia - laennecia, laennicia
  • Lagascea
  • Lagenifera - island-daisy
  • Lagophylla - hareleaf
  • Lapsana - nipplewort
  • Lapsanastrum - nipplewort
  • Lasianthaea
  • Lasiospermum - cocoonhead
  • Lasthenia - goldfields
  • Launaea
  • Layia - tidytips
  • Leibnitzia - sunbonnets
  • Lembertia
  • Leontodon - hawkbit
  • Leontopodium - edelweiss
  • Lepidospartum - broomsage
  • Leptorhynchos - scaly button
  • Lessingia - vinegarweed
  • Leucanthemella
  • Leucanthemopsis
  • Leucanthemum - daisy, Oxeye daisy
  • Leucochrysum - sunray
  • Liatris - blazing star, gay feather
  • Lindheimera
  • Lipochaeta - nehe
  • Litrisa
  • Logfia - cottonrose
  • Luina - silverback
  • Lygodesmia - skeleton weed

M

  • Machaeranthera - goldenweed, tansyaster
  • Madia - tarweed
  • Malacothrix - desert dandelion
  • Malperia
  • Mantisalca
  • Marshallia - Barbara's buttons
  • Matricaria - mayweed
  • Megalodonta - watermarigold
  • Melampodium - blackfoot
  • Melanthera - squarestem
  • Micropus - cottonseed
  • Microseris - silverpuffs, yam daisy
  • Mikania - hempvine
  • Monolopia
  • Monoptilon - desertstar
  • Montanoa
  • Mycelis

N

  • Neurolaena
  • Nicolletia - hole-in-the-sand
  • Nothocalais - prairie-dandelion
  • Notobasis - Syrian thistle

O

  • Oclemena - aster
  • Olearia - daisy bush
  • Oligoneuron - goldenrod
  • Omalotheca - arctic cudweed
  • Oncosiphon
  • Onopordum - Cotton thistle
  • Oonopsis - false goldenweed
  • Oreochrysum - goldenrod
  • Oreostemma - aster
  • Orochaenactis
  • Osmadenia
  • Osteospermum - daisybush
  • Ozothamnus

P

  • Packera - synonym of Tephroseris
  • Palafoxia - palafox
  • Pallenis
  • Parantennaria
  • Parasenecio - Indian plantain
  • Parthenice
  • Parthenium - feverfew
  • Pascalia
  • Pectis - cinchweed, fetid marigold
  • Pentachaeta - pygmy daisy
  • Pentzia
  • Perezia
  • Pericallis - ragwort
  • Pericome
  • Perityle - rock daisy
  • Petasites - butterbur
  • Petradoria - rock goldenrod
  • Peucephyllum - pygmy cedar
  • Phalacroseris - mock dandelion
  • Phoebanthus - false sunflower
  • Picradeniopsis - bahia
  • Picris - oxtongue
  • Picrothamnus - bud sagebrush
  • Pinaropappus - rock lettuce
  • Piptocarpha - ash daisy
  • Piptocoma - velvetshrub
  • Pityopsis - silkgrass
  • Platyschkuhria - basindaisy
  • Pleurocoronis
  • Pluchea - camphorweed, fleabane
  • Plummera
  • Podocoma
  • Podolepis
  • Polymnia
  • Porophyllum - poreleaf
  • Prenanthella
  • Prenanthes - rattlesnakeroot
  • Prionopsis
  • Proustia
  • Psacalium - Indianbush
  • Psathyrotes - turtleback
  • Pseudelephantopus - dog's-tongue
  • Pseudobahia - sunburst
  • Pseudoclappia - false clapdaisy
  • Pseudognaphalium - false cudweed, cudweed
  • Pseudogynoxys
  • Psilactis - tansyaster
  • Psilocarphus - woollyheads
  • Psilostrophe - paperflower
  • Pterocaulon - blackroot
  • Pulicaria - false fleabane
  • Pyrrhopappus - desert chicory
  • Pyrrocoma - goldenweed
  • Pycnosorus - billy buttons, craspedia

R

  • Rafinesquia - California chicory
  • Raillardella - silvermat
  • Raillardiopsis
  • Rainiera
  • Ratibida - prairie coneflower
  • Rayjacksonia - tansyaster
  • Reichardia - brighteyes
  • Remya
  • Rhagadiolus
  • Rhodanthe - sunray
  • Rigiopappus
  • Rolandra - yerba de plata
  • Roldana - groundsel
  • Rudbeckia - coneflower
  • Rugelia - Rugel's Indian plantain

S

  • Sachsia
  • Salmea - bejuco de miel
  • Santolina - lavender cotton
  • Sanvitalia - creeping zinnia
  • Sartwellia - glowwort
  • Saussurea - saw-wort
  • Schkuhria - false threadleaf
  • Sclerocarpus - bonebract
  • Sclerolepis - bogbutton
  • Scolymus - golden thistle
  • Scorzonera
  • Senecio - groundsel, ragwort
  • Sericocarpus - whitetop aster
  • Serratula - plumeless saw-wort
  • Shinnersia -
  • Shinnersoseris - beaked skeletonweed
  • Sigesbeckia - St. Paul's wort
  • Silphium - rosinweed
  • Silybum - milk thistle
  • Simsia - bush sunflower
  • Smallanthus
  • Solidago - goldenrod
  • Soliva - burrweed
  • Sonchus - sow thistle, sowthistle
  • Sphaeromeria - chickensage
  • Sphagneticola - creeping-oxeye
  • Spilanthes - toothache flower
  • Spiracantha - dogwoodleaf
  • Stebbinsoseris - silverpuffs
  • Stenotus - mock goldenweed
  • Stephanomeria - wire lettuce
  • Stevia - candyleaf
  • Stokesia
  • Struchium
  • Stylocline - neststraw
  • Symphyotrichum - aster
  • Synedrella
  • Synedrellopsis
  • Synosma
  • Syntrichopappus - Fremont's gold

T

  • Tagetes - marigold
  • Tamaulipa - boneset
  • Tanacetum - tansy
  • Taraxacum - dandelion
  • Tephroseris - groundsel
  • Tetradymia - horsebrush
  • Tetragonotheca - nerveray
  • Tetramolopium
  • Tetraneuris - four-nerve daisy
  • Thelechitonia .
  • Thelesperma - greenthread
  • Thurovia
  • Thymophylla - pricklyleaf
  • Tithonia
  • Tolpis - umbrella milkwort
  • Tonestus - serpentweed
  • Townsendia - Townsend daisy
  • Tracyina - Indian headdress
  • Tragopogon - goat's beard, salsify
  • Trichocoronis - bugheal
  • Trichoptilium
  • Tridax
  • Trilisa
  • Trimorpha - boreal daisy
  • Tripleurospermum - mayweed
  • Tripolium - sea aster
  • Trixis - threefold
  • Tussilago - coltsfoot

U

  • Uropappus - silverpuffs
  • Urospermum

V

  • Vanclevea
  • Varilla
  • Venegasia
  • Venidium
  • Verbesina - crownbeard
  • Vernonia - ironweed
  • Viguiera - goldeneye

W

  • Wedelia - creepingoxeye
  • Whitneya
  • Wilkesia - iliau
  • Wollastonia
  • Wyethia - mule-ears

X

  • Xanthisma - sleepydaisy
  • Xanthium - cocklebur
  • Xanthocephalum
  • Xylorhiza - woody aster

Y

  • Yermo - desert yellowhead
  • Youngia

Z



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