Robin Panza wrote:
>
> In article <[log in to unmask]>, Andrew James Llwellyn Cary
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> > Both are members of the 'Daisy' Family (Compositae), that however does not
mean they are
> > 'related' in any sense but structural. The compositae family includes all
plants with compound
> > flowers. This would include lettuce, asters, mustard, daisies, zinnias,
chicory, ragweed, and
> > marigolds (out of a cast of thousands).
>
> This is the first time I've heard the suggestion that mustard has been moved
> into the family Asteraceae.  It's also the first time I've heard the
suggestion
> that "Asteraceae" is not a monophyletic (albeit diverse) taxon.  Please send
me
> citations, as I'd very much like to know more.
>
> Robin Panza                     [log in to unmask]
> Section of Birds, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
> 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh  PA  USA  15213

You've quite confused me. Asters are members of tribe Astera of
Family Compositae. At least in Phillip Munz and David Keck's _A
California Flora_ (UC press 1973). It has been over twenty years since I
studied field botany and ecology. Unfortunately I only have time to dust
off the book every couple of years or so...

You are quite correct about the mustard, my faulty memory assigned the
mustards to Compositae instead of the Cruciferae. Mea culpa. (All I had
to do was visualize a mustard blossom too. :0)

Chagrined

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