The sunflower or daisy family, one of the largest plant families, including sunflowers, daisies, dandelions, lettuce, and chrysanthemums. Members have composite flower heads made up of many small individual flowers arranged in a disc or ray pattern.
From Latin 'aster' meaning 'star,' referring to the star-like appearance of many flowers in this family. The family was formerly called Compositae, referring to the composite nature of their flower heads made up of many tiny flowers.
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