Asteraceae is a spectacularly successful and very complicate family to classify the same time. Very easy to spot at family level, but a lot of tribes and a nigh

Asteraceae is a spectacularly successful and very complicate family to classify the same time. Very easy to spot at family level, but a lot of tribes and a nightmare of details at species level The (real) flowers are "trumpet" like, thin and long ended in a small star, but the extreme of this trumpet can be arranged in several ways, as the article explains. It seems that this shape evolved several times in the (28000 yet?) species known. The success of is family as plants can be compared with 'beetle' level of success on animals.