asterales

Asterales are common plants and have many known uses.

Goodeniaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales.

Asterales are organisms that seem to have evolved from one common ancestor.

Calyceraceae is a plant family in the order Asterales.

Asterales are angiosperms, flowering plants that appeared about 140 million years ago.

Each individual "petal" is itself an individual flower, called asterales.

The Argophyllaceae is a family of shrubs or small trees belonging to the order Asterales.

And, www.invasive.org notes 838 invasive plant species in the Asterales, all members of the Asteraceae.

Asterales share characteristics on morphological and biochemical levels.

Asterales contain about 14% of eudicot diversity.

Asterales (sunflower and daisy order)

Alseuosmiaceae (Asterales)

Fossil evidence of the Asterales is rare and belongs to rather recent epochs, so the precise estimation of the order's age is quite difficult.

Asterales (Sunflower).

Despite the large number of species in order Asterales, they do not compare in economic benefit for mankind to the Poales or to the Fabaceae.

The Asterales are an order of flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae (sunflowers, daisies, thistles, etc.) and its related families.

APG II places Stylidiaceae and Donatiaceae in the Asterales.

These are now placed in the Asterales, and Calycerales treated as a synonym of Asterales.

Alseuosmiaceae is a plant family of the order Asterales, found in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand.

The Asterales order probably originated in the Cretaceous on the supercontinent Gondwana, in the area which is now Australia and Asia.

All Asterales families are represented in the southern hemisphere; however Asteraceae and Campanulaceae are cosmopolitan and Menyanthaceae nearly so.

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25,000 species, and the Campanulaceae ("Bellflowers"), with about 2,000 species.

Campanulales is not recognized as an order in the APG II system, where the families are included in order Asterales, except for Sphenocleaceae in Solanales.

The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains about 2000 species in 70 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap.

Less can be said about the Asterales themselves with certainty, although since several families in Asterales contain trees, the ancestral member is most likely to have been a tree or shrub.