Daisy Family Compositae

The daisy family is certainly diverse. Its members include dandelions, hawkweeds and thistles and a range of less obvious species. They are known as compositae because they have complex flower structures; some a central cluster with florest around it and other just a cluster of thin, even thread-like, petals.

The information about this group of species has been organised into reports, charts, maps and photos. Click a pic below to see the detail:

Some Charts	Distribution Map	Some Photographs	Sites List	Records List	Recent Records	Guidance Notes

For more information about a species click/tap its photograph:

Daisy Bellis perennis	Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare	Feverfew Tanacetum parthenium	Mexican Fleabane Erigeron karvinskianus
Scentless Mayweed Tripleurospermum inodorum	Sea Mayweed Tripleurospermum maritum	Chamomile Chamaemelum nobile	Yarrow Achillea millefolium
Sneezewort Achillea ptarmica	Gallant Soldier Galinsoga parviflora	Blue Fleabane Erigeron acris	Seaside Daisy Erigeron glaucus
Sea Aster Aster tripolium	Marsh Ragwort Senecio aquaticus	Common Ragwort Senecio jacobaea	Hoary Ragwort Senecio erucifolius
Oxford Ragwort Senecio squalidus	Silver Ragwort Senecio cineraria	Colts-foot Tussilago farfara	Corn marigold Pulicaria officinalis
Common Fleabane Pulicaria dysenterica	Golden Samphire Inula crithmoides	Elecampane Inula helenium	Blanketflower Gaillardia grandifora
Goldenrod Solidago virgaurea	Canadian Goldenrod Solidago canadensis	Pineappleweed Matricaria discoidea	Tansy Tanacetum vulgare
Trifid Bur-marigold Bidens tripartita	Nodding Bur-marigold Bidens cernua	Groundsel Senecio vulgaris	Heath Groundsel Senecio sylvaticus
Ploughmans-spikenard Inula conyzae	Marsh Cudweed Gnaphallium uliginosum	Small Cudweed Filago minima	Common Cudweed Filago germanica
Mugwort Artemisia vulgaris	Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris	Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra	Greater Knapweed Centaurea scabiosa
Saw-wort Serratula tinctoria	Greater Burdock Arctium lappa	Lesser Burdock Arctium minus	Winter Heliotrope Petasites fragrans
Hemp-agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum	Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare	Creeping Thistle Cirsium arvense	Dwarf Thistle Cirsium acaulon
Marsh Thistle Cirsium palustre	Welted Thistle Cardus crispus	Musk Thistle Carduus nutans	Slender Thistle Carduus tenuiflorus
Woolly Thistle Cirsium eriophorum	Meadow Thistle Cirsium dissectum	Milk Thistle Silybum maratinum	Cotton Thistle Onopordon acanthium
Dandelion Taraxacum agg.	Goats-beard Tragopogon pratensis	Cats-ear Hypochaeris radicata	Autumn Hawkbit Leontodon autumnalis
Rough Hawkbit Leontodon hispidus	Smooth Cats-ear Hypochaeris glabra	Nipplewort Lapsana communis	Smooth Hawks-beard Crepis capillaris
Beaked Hawks-beard Crepis vesicaria	Bristly Oxtongue Picris echioides	Narrow-leaved Hawkweed Hieracium umbellatum	Hairy-stemmed hawkweed Hieracium trichocaulon
Hawkweed Oxtongue Picris hieracioides	Orange Hawkweed Pilosella aurantiaca	Mouse-ear-hawkweed Pilosella officinarum	Common Sow-thistle Sonchus species
Perennial Sow-thistle Sonchus arvensis	Great Lettuce Lactuta virosa	Chickory Cichorium intybus