Echinacea angustifolia, the narrow-leaved purple coneflower or blacksamson echinacea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America, where it is widespread across much of the Great Plains of central Canada and the central United States, with additional populations in surrounding regions.
The Heliantheae are the third-largest tribe in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). With some 190 genera and nearly 2500 recognized species, only the tribes Senecioneae and Astereae are larger. The name is derived from the genus Helianthus, which is Greek for sun flower. Most genera and species are found in North America and South America. A few genera are pantropical.
Rabbitbrush is a common name for shrubs, principally of the western United States, in three related genera of the family Asteraceae:
Astereae is a tribe of plants in the family Asteraceae that includes annuals, biennials, perennials, subshrubs, shrubs, and trees. They are found primarily in temperate regions of the world. Plants within the tribe are present nearly worldwide divided into over 250 genera and more than 3,100 species, making it the second-largest tribe in the family behind Senecioneae.
Cuniculotinus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Gundlachia, commonly called goldenshrub, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Lorandersonia, commonly called rabbitbush, is a genus of North American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Neonesomia is a genus of North American flowering plants in the aster tribe within the sunflower family.
Nestotus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Stenotus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. There are four species, all native to western North America. They are known commonly as mock goldenweeds.
Toiyabea is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. The genus is named for the Toiyabe Mountains in the US state of Nevada.
Tonestus, common name serpentweed, is a genus of North American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Triniteurybia aberrans, the Idaho goldenweed, is a species of flowering plant in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. It is the only species in the genus Triniteurybia.
Petradoria is a genus of North American subshrubs in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.
Toiyabea eximia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Lake Tahoe serpentweed and Tahoe tonestus. It is native to the High Sierra Nevada, where it is known only from the vicinity of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. It grows in alpine and subalpine mountain habitat. It is a short, clumpy perennial herb growing up to 13 centimeters tall. The thick stems are hairless and glandular, the lower parts covered in the withered leaf bases of previous seasons' growth. The toothed or serrated leaf blades are up to 3 to 5 centimeters in length. The inflorescence is a single flower head or a cluster of a few heads. Each is 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide with green phyllaries. The head bears at least 10 bright yellow ray florets around a center containing many tubular disc florets.
Chrysothamnus stylosus, called pillar false gumweed, or resinbush, is a species of flowering plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Arizona and Utah in the southwestern United States.
Lorandersonia baileyi, is a North American species of flowering plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. It was initially discovered in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico in 1902, and has since been collected in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León.
Chrysothamnus scopulorum, called Grand Canyon glowweed or evening-daisy , is a North American species of flowering plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in northern Arizona and southern Utah.
Ericameria arizonica is a North American species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae known as Arizona goldenbush or Grand Canyon goldenweed. It has been found only on the cliffs on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona.
Gundlachia triantha, the TransPecos goldenshrub or Trans-Pecos desert goldenrod, is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to northern Mexico, with the range extending just over the Río Grande into western Texas in and near Big Bend National Park.
