Plant family
Daisy & aster family — Asteraceae
514 species across 44 genera in the Growli library
The daisy family is the largest family of flowering plants, built on the composite "flower" that is really a head of many tiny florets — coneflowers, asters, dahlias, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, marigolds and more.
Browse daisy & aster family by genus
Dahlia (43)Symphyotrichum (30)Echinacea (28)Rudbeckia (26)Coreopsis (23)Zinnia (21)Chrysanthemum (21)Helianthus (20)Cosmos (18)Helenium (18)Lactuca (17)Curio (16)Tagetes (16)Artemisia (16)Gaillardia (16)Senecio (14)Achillea (13)Helichrysum (13)Liatris (12)Solidago (12)Calendula (9)Cichorium (9)Centaurea (9)Santolina (9)Leucanthemum (8)Osteospermum (8)Ligularia (8)Inula (8)Gazania (7)Tanacetum (7)Silphium (7)Vernonia (5)Aster (4)Ratibida (3)Ageratum (3)Echinops (3)Cynara (3)Erigeron (2)Tithonia (2)Cirsium (2)Arctotis (2)Eupatorium (1)Gerbera (1)Heliopsis (1)
All daisy & aster family we cover
- 'Castelfranco' Radicchio
- 3D Spider Mix Osteospermum
- Achillea 'Terracotta'
- Achillea millefolium 'Cerise Queen'
- Achillea ptarmica 'The Pearl'
- African marigold
- African Marigold 'Crackerjack'
- African Wormwood
- Ageratum houstonianum 'Artist Blue'
- Ageratum houstonianum 'Blue Horizon'
- Alma Potschke aster
- Alpine Aster
- Appalachian Blazing Star
- Aromatic Aster
- Aromatic Aster 'Raydon's Favorite'
- Ashy Sunflower
- Aster 'Alma Potschke'
- Aster 'Fellowship'
- Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Aster 'Hella Lacy'
- Aster 'Little Carlow'
- Aster 'Monte Cassino'
- Aster 'October Skies'
- Aster 'Professor Kippenburg'
- Aster 'Purple Dome'
- Aster 'Raydon's Favorite'
- Aster 'Vibrant Dome'
- Aster 'Wood's Pink'
- Aster × frikartii 'Mönch'
- Bachelor's button
- Batavian Lettuce
- Beach Wormwood
- Becky Shasta daisy
- Belgian Endive (Witloof)
- Benary's Giant Coral zinnia
- Benary's Giant Coral Zinnia
- Big Kiss Yellow Flame Gazania
- Bishop of Llandaff Dahlia
- Black Ball cornflower
- Black-Eyed Susan
- Black-eyed Susan 'Goldsturm'
- Blanket flower
- Blanket Flower
- Blanket Flower 'Goblin'
- Blue Boy cornflower
- Blue Chalk Sticks
- Blue Chalk Sticks
- Blue Chalksticks
- Blue Chalksticks
- Bon Bon Mix Pot Marigold
- Boneset
- Bright Bikinis strawflower
- Bright Bikinis Strawflower
- British Yellowhead
- Britt-Marie Crawford Ligularia
- Brown-eyed Susan
- Butterhead Lettuce
- Butterhead Lettuce
- Café au Lait Dahlia
- Calendula
- Calendula 'Indian Prince'
- Calendula 'Radio'
- Calico Aster
- Candle plant
- Candle Plant
- Cape daisy
- Cape Gold Everlasting
- Cardoon
- Centaurea 'Amethyst in Snow'
- Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia
- Chicory
- Chicory 'Puntarelle'
- Chocolate Cosmos
- Chrysanthemum
- Chrysanthemum 'Anastasia'
- Chrysanthemum 'Bronze Elegance'
- Chrysanthemum 'Cheryl Pride'
- Chrysanthemum 'Cottage Apricot'
- Chrysanthemum 'Country Girl'
- Chrysanthemum 'Emperor of China'
- Chrysanthemum 'Golden Cascade'
- Chrysanthemum 'Hillside Pink Sheffield'
- Chrysanthemum 'Innocence'
- Chrysanthemum 'Mei-kyo'
- Chrysanthemum 'Pennine Alfie'
- Chrysanthemum 'Ruby Mound'
- Chrysanthemum 'Rumpelstiltskin'
- Chrysanthemum 'Ryan's Daisy'
- Chrysanthemum 'Salmon Allouise'
- Chrysanthemum 'Snowdon'
- Chrysanthemum 'Time Piece'
- Chrysanthemum 'Will's Wonderful'
- Chrysanthemum 'Yellow John Wingfield'
- Chrysanthemum 'Zeal Bronze'
- Cocoon Plant
- Comb-Leaved Santolina
- Common Blanket Flower
- Common Ironweed
- Common Knapweed
- Common Wormwood
- Compass Plant
- Coneflower 'White Swan'
- Coreopsis 'Jethro Tull'
- Coreopsis 'Limerock Ruby'
- Coreopsis 'Mercury Rising'
- Coreopsis 'Moonbeam'
- Coreopsis 'Route 66'
- Coreopsis 'Ruby Sunset'
- Coreopsis 'Sienna Sunset'
- Coreopsis 'Sunkiss'
- Coreopsis 'Sunray'
- Coreopsis 'Uptick Gold and Bronze'
- Coreopsis 'Zagreb'
- Coreopsis grandiflora 'Early Sunrise'
- Cornflower
- Cos Romaine Lettuce
- Cosmos
- Cosmos 'Sensation'
- Cosmos bipinnatus 'Picotee'
- Cosmos bipinnatus 'Sensation White'
- Cosmos sulphureus 'Bright Lights'
- Cosmos sulphureus 'Klondike'
- Costmary
- Cotton Lavender
- Crystal White narrowleaf zinnia
- Cup Plant
- Cupcakes Blush cosmos
- Curio Articulatus
- Curio Citriformis
- Curio Ficoides
- Curio Ficoides 'Mount Everest'
- Curio peregrinus
- Curio Radicans
- Curio Rowleyanus
- Curio Talinoides var. mandraliscae
- Curly Endive 'Frisee'
- Curry plant
- Cusp Blazing Star
- Cutleaf coneflower
- Cutleaf Fleabane
- Cylindric Blazing Star
- Dahlia
- Dahlia
- Dahlia 'Ace Summer Sunset'
- Dahlia 'Akita'
- Dahlia 'American Dawn'
- Dahlia 'Bishop of Dover'
- Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff'
- Dahlia 'Bishop of Oxford'
- Dahlia 'Boom Boom White'
- Dahlia 'Bora Bora'
- Dahlia 'Breakout'
- Dahlia 'Cafe au Lait'
- Dahlia 'Camano Ariel'
- Dahlia 'Contraste'
- Dahlia 'Decorette Rose'
- Dahlia 'El Trasno'
- Dahlia 'Fire Magic'
- Dahlia 'Gallery Art Deco'
- Dahlia 'Ginger Snap'
- Dahlia 'Hollyhill Black Beauty'
- Dahlia 'Jazz'
- Dahlia 'Karma Choc'
- Dahlia 'Karma Naomi'
- Dahlia 'Labyrinth'
- Dahlia 'Mingus Tina'
- Dahlia 'Mrs Eileen'
- Dahlia 'Mystery Day'
- Dahlia 'Mystic Illusion'
- Dahlia 'Orange Mullet'
- Dahlia 'Penhill Dark Monarch'
- Dahlia 'Penhill Watermelon'
- Dahlia 'Purple Taiheijo'
- Dahlia 'Rip City'
- Dahlia 'Senior Ball'
- Dahlia 'Soda Fountain'
- Dahlia 'Thomas Edison'
- Dalmatian Chrysanthemum
- Daybreak Red Stripe Treasure Flower
- Dazzler cosmos
- Desdemona Ligularia
- Diablo Orange Cosmos
- Dinnerplate Dahlia 'Café au Lait'
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Double Click Cranberries Cosmos
- Double Click Snow Puff cosmos
- Drummond's Aster
- Early Goldenrod
- Eastern Everlasting
- Echinacea 'After Midnight'
- Echinacea 'Baby White Swan'
- Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit'
- Echinacea 'Coconut Lime'
- Echinacea 'Green Envy'
- Echinacea 'Harvest Moon'
- Echinacea 'Hot Papaya'
- Echinacea 'Hula Dancer'
- Echinacea 'Magnus'
- Echinacea 'Pink Double Delight'
- Echinacea 'Pixie Meadowbrite'
- Echinacea 'PowWow Wild Berry'
- Echinacea 'Ruby Star'
- Echinacea 'Sunset'
- Echinacea 'Tomato Soup'
- Echinacea 'Virgin'
- Echinacea 'White Swan'
- Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue'
- Echinops ritro
- Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue'
- Elecampane
- Endive
- Envy Green Zinnia
- Escarole 'Batavian Full Heart'
- Etruscan Santolina
- Fern-leaf Yarrow 'Gold Plate'
- Fernleaf yarrow
- Feverfew
- Field marigold
- Forellenschluss Lettuce
- French marigold
- French Marigold 'Durango'
- French tarragon
- French Tarragon
- Fringed Coreopsis
- Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun'
- Gaillardia 'Burgundy'
- Gaillardia 'Dazzler'
- Gaillardia 'Fanfare'
- Gaillardia 'Goblin'
- Gaillardia 'Mesa Red'
- Gaillardia 'Mesa Yellow'
- Gaillardia 'SpinTop Orange Halo'
- Gaillardia 'Sun Devil'
- Gaillardia 'Tizzy'
- Gaillardia 'Torchlight'
- Gazania × hybrida 'Tiger Stripes'
- Gazania rigens 'Daybreak Garden Sun'
- Gerbera Daisy
- Globe Artichoke
- Gloriosa Daisy
- Gold Plate yarrow
- Goldenrod
- Gray Goldenrod
- Greater Coreopsis
- Greater Knapweed
- Greek yarrow
- Green Cotton Lavender
- Grey Goldenrod
- Grey-Headed Coneflower
- Hairy Coreopsis
- Hawaii Blue Flossflower
- Helenium 'Chipperfield Orange'
- Helenium 'Coppelia'
- Helenium 'Floretan'
- Helenium 'Helbro'
- Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty'
- Helenium 'Pumilum Magnificum'
- Helenium 'Riverton Beauty'
- Helenium 'Rotgold'
- Helenium 'Rubinzwerg'
- Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'
- Helenium 'Short and Sassy'
- Helenium 'Waldtraut'
- Helenium 'Wyndley'
- Helenium autumnale 'Pumilum Magnificum'
- Helianthus 'Lemon Queen'
- Helianthus × multiflorus 'Loddon Gold'
- Helianthus decapetalus 'Flore Pleno'
- Helianthus salicifolius
- Himalayan Inula
- Hooker's Inula
- Iceberg Lettuce
- Iceberg Lettuce
- Indian Blanket
- Indian Elecampane
- Indian Summer black-eyed Susan
- Indian Summer Black-Eyed Susan
- Irish Fleabane
- Italian aster
- Jerusalem Artichoke
- Jerusalem Artichoke
- Jerusalem Artichoke 'Red Fuseau'
- Jerusalem Artichoke 'Stampede'
- King George aster
- Ladybird Scarlet cosmos
- Lanceleaf Coreopsis
- Late Curry Plant
- Lemmon's marigold
- Leopard Plant 'Desdemona'
- Leopard Plant 'The Rocket'
- Lettuce
- Leucanthemum × superbum 'Alaska'
- Leucanthemum × superbum 'Becky'
- Leucanthemum × superbum 'Silver Princess'
- Leucanthemum × superbum 'Snowcap'
- Leucanthemum × superbum 'Wirral Supreme'
- Liatris spicata
- Liatris spicata 'Kobold'
- Licorice plant
- Little Gem Lettuce
- Lobed Tickseed
- Lollo Rosso Lettuce
- Loose-leaf Lettuce
- Magnificent Inula
- Marigold
- Maximilian Sunflower
- Meadow Blazing Star
- Mediterranean Everlasting
- Melancholy Thistle
- Merlot Lettuce
- Mexican Fleabane
- Mexican Hat
- Mexican sunflower
- Mexican Tarragon
- Mexican zinnia
- Missouri Coneflower
- Missouri Ironweed
- Monarch of the Veldt
- Mountain African Daisy
- Mountain Cornflower
- Mugwort
- Muster-John-Henry
- Naples Cotton Lavender
- Narrow-Leaf Coneflower
- Narrow-leaf Zinnia
- Narrowleaf gazania
- Neon Tangerine Calendula
- New England Aster
- New England Aster 'Purple Dome'
- New England Aster 'Purple Dome'
- New York aster
- New York Aster 'Fellowship'
- New York Ironweed
- New Zealand Everlasting Daisy
- Northern Blazing Star
- Oak Leaf Lettuce
- Oblong-Leaved Santolina
- Ohio Goldenrod
- Oklahoma Salmon zinnia
- Orange coneflower
- Orange King Calendula
- Orange Sneezeweed
- Osteospermum 'Akila Daisy White'
- Osteospermum 'Sunny Serena White'
- Osteospermum 'Voltage Yellow'
- Othello Ligularia
- Oxeye daisy
- Painted Daisy
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Pale-Leaved Sunflower
- Paprika yarrow
- Persian Carpet zinnia
- Peruvian zinnia
- Pink Coreopsis
- Pink Senecio
- Pink Surprise calendula
- Pinnate Santolina
- Plains Coreopsis
- Ploughman's Spikenard
- Pompon Dahlia 'Jowey Mirella'
- Pot Marigold 'Pacific Beauty'
- PowWow Wild Berry coneflower
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Prairie Coreopsis
- Prairie Dock
- Prairie Goldenrod
- Prairie Heart-Leaved Aster
- Prairie Rosinweed
- Profusion orange zinnia
- Profusion White Zinnia
- Przewalski's Leopard Plant
- Przewalskii Ligularia
- Purity cosmos
- Purple Coneflower
- Purple Sun African Daisy
- Queen Lime Red zinnia
- Queeny Lime Orange zinnia
- Radicchio 'Rossa di Treviso'
- Radicchio 'Rossa di Verona'
- Rayed Tansy
- Red Romaine Lettuce
- Red Sails Lettuce
- Rigid Goldenrod
- Romaine Lettuce
- Roman Wormwood
- Rosinweed
- Rough Blazing Star
- Rough Coneflower
- Rubenza cosmos
- Rudbeckia 'Autumn Colors'
- Rudbeckia 'Becky Mixed'
- Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'
- Rudbeckia 'Denver Daisy'
- Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'
- Rudbeckia 'Henry Eilers'
- Rudbeckia 'Indian Summer'
- Rudbeckia 'Little Henry'
- Rudbeckia 'Pot of Gold'
- Rudbeckia 'Prairie Sun'
- Rudbeckia 'Sahara'
- Rudbeckia 'Toto Gold'
- Rudbeckia maxima
- Russian Tarragon
- Russian Tarragon
- Sand Everlasting
- Sanguine Coneflower
- Sardinian Santolina
- Sawtooth Sunflower
- Scaly Blazing Star
- Scarlet Dahlia
- Sea Wormwood
- Senecio macroglossus
- Senecio macroglossus 'Variegatus'
- Sensation Mix Cosmos
- Sensation Mixed cosmos
- Shasta daisy
- Showy Goldenrod
- Sibthorp's Everlasting
- Signet marigold
- Signet Marigold 'Lemon Gem'
- Silky Aster
- Silver Mound Artemisia
- Silver Tansy
- Silvery Yarrow
- Sky Blue Aster
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Smooth Coneflower
- Smooth Oxeye
- Sneezeweed
- Sneezeweed 'Moerheim Beauty'
- Sneezeweed 'Riverton Beauty'
- Sneezewort
- Solidago 'Fireworks'
- Spear Head
- Starry Rosinweed
- Stemless African Daisy
- Stemless Thistle
- Sticky Santolina
- Stiff Goldenrod
- Stiff Sunflower
- Strawflower
- String of bananas
- String of dolphins
- String of Fishhooks
- String of pearls
- String of Pearls
- String of Raindrops
- String of Teardrops
- String of Tears
- String of Tears
- String of Watermelons
- Sulphur Cosmos
- Sunflower
- Swamp Sunflower
- Sweet Annie
- Sweet Black-Eyed Susan
- Sweet sultan
- Symphyotrichum laeve 'Bluebird'
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Andenken an Alma Pötschke'
- Symphyotrichum novi-belgii 'Fellowship'
- Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 'Raydon's Favorite'
- Tagetes erecta 'Inca Gold'
- Tagetes erecta 'Taishan Orange'
- Tagetes patula 'Boy Orange'
- Tagetes patula 'Janie Bright Yellow'
- Tagetes tenuifolia 'Tangerine Gem'
- Tall Coreopsis
- Tall Goldenrod
- Tall Ironweed
- Tansy
- Teddy Bear sunflower
- Tennessee Coneflower
- Texas Blazing Star
- The Rocket Ligularia
- Thin-Leaved Sunflower
- Thomas Edison Dahlia
- Threadleaf Coreopsis
- Threadleaf Tickseed 'Moonbeam'
- Three-lobed Coneflower
- Tian Shan Everlasting
- Topeka Purple Coneflower
- Torch Mexican sunflower
- Trailing African daisy
- Treasure flower
- Tree Dahlia
- Tree Wormwood
- Upright Prairie Coneflower
- Uproar Rose zinnia
- Variegated String of Pearls
- Velvet Queen sunflower
- Violetto Artichoke
- Wavyleaf Coneflower
- Webb's Wonderful Lettuce
- Western Ironweed
- Western Sunflower
- White Mugwort
- White Sage Brush
- Whorled Rosinweed
- Wild Gazania
- Winter Tarragon
- Woodland Sunflower
- Woolly yarrow
- Wormwood
- Yarrow
- Yarrow 'Moonshine'
- Yellow coneflower
- Zigzag Goldenrod
- Zinnia
- Zinnia 'Benary's Giant'
- Zinnia 'Profusion'
- Zinnia elegans 'Benary's Giant Coral'
- Zinnia elegans 'Profusion Cherry'
- Zinnia elegans 'Zahara Starlight Rose'
- Zinnia haageana 'Old Mexico'
Daisy & aster family — frequently asked questions
Are daisy & aster family toxic to cats and dogs?
Most daisy & aster family are not pet-safe. Of the 514 daisy & aster family in the Growli library, 292 (57%) carry a toxic or mildly-toxic ASPCA classification and 222 are pet-safe. They are not uniformly safe, so always confirm the exact species on its pet-safety page before trusting it around cats or dogs.
How much light do daisy & aster family need?
Most daisy & aster family want plenty of direct sun — 462 of the 514 in our library do best there. If yours stretches toward the window or loses its variegation it needs more light; scorched or bleached leaves mean it is getting too much.
Are daisy & aster family easy to care for?
Some daisy & aster family suit experienced growers — several want strong light, sharp drainage or a specific seasonal rhythm. Check the individual species page for the exact regime before you buy.
What is the Asteraceae family?
The Asteraceae family — the daisy & aster family — groups 514 species across 44 genera in the Growli library, most prominently Dahlia, Symphyotrichum, Echinacea. Members share a broadly similar light, water and soil pattern, which is why it pays to learn the family before the individual plant.