About 30, see text.
Golden asters, genera Heterotheca and Chrysopsis, are members of the plant family Asteraceae. These are annual and perennial herbs bearing daisylike flower heads with yellow disc florets and usually yellow ray florets.
Golden asters are often used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Schinia lynx, Schinia nubila and Schinia saturata (all of which have been recorded on Heterotheca subaxillaris) and Schinia petulans (which feeds exclusively on Chrysopsis subulata).
Species include:
- Chrysopsis camporum - Prairie golden aster.
- Chrysopsis delaneyi - DeLaney's golden aster.
- Chrysopsis floridana - Florida golden aster.
- Chrysopsis fulcrata - Mountain camphorweed.
- Chrysopsis godfreyi - Godfrey's golden aster
- Chrysopsis gossypina - Cottony golden aster
- Chrysopsis graminifolia - Grass-leaved Golden-aster
- Chrysopsis highlandsensis - Highlands County golden aster
- Chrysopsis lanuginosa - Lynn Haven golden aster
- Chrysopsis latisquamea - Pineland golden aster
- Chrysopsis linearifolia - Narrowleaf golden aster
- Chrysopsis mariana - Maryland golden aster
- Chrysopsis pilosa - Soft golden aster
- Chrysopsis scabrella - Coastal plain golden aster
- Chrysopsis subulata - Scrubland golden aster
- Chrysopsis texana - Texas golden aster
- Heterotheca barbata - Spokane golden aster
- Heterotheca grandiflora - Telegraphweed
- Heterotheca inuloides - Mexican arnica
- Heterotheca monarchensis - monarch golden aster
- Heterotheca oregona - Oregon golden aster
- Heterotheca psammophila - Camphorweed
- Heterotheca sessiliflora - Sessileflower false golden aster
- Heterotheca shevockii - Kern Canyon false golden aster
- Heterotheca villosa - Hairy golden aster
- Heterotheca zionensis - Zion golden aster
Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or aster:
“Love’s secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which our further shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“... picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)