family Asteraceae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinniaasterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs Campanulales, order Campanulales - an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae composite plant, composite - considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers compass flower, compass plant - any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass everlasting, everlasting flower - any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color genus Achillea - perennial often aromatic and sometimes mat-forming herbs of north temperate regions: yarrow; milfoil genus Ageratum - genus of tropical American herbs grown for their flowers genus Ambrosia - comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceae genus Ammobium - small genus of Australian herbs grown for their flowers genus Andryala - a genus of hardy hairy latex-producing perennials of Mediterranean area Antennaria, genus Antennaria - small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles genus Arnica - large genus of herbs of north temperate and Arctic regions genus Artemisia - usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon wormwood - any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium sage brush, sagebrush - any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium genus Aster - large genus of herbs widely cultivated for their daisylike flowers genus Ayapana - genus of tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Eupatorium Baccharis, genus Baccharis - shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control Boltonia, genus Boltonia - genus of tall leafy perennial herbs of eastern America and eastern Asia having flowers that resemble asters Brickellia, genus Brickelia - genus of herbs of southwestern America having usually creamy florets followed by one-seeded fruits in a prominent bristly sheath |