An order of flowering plants that includes the Asteraceae family and several related families, characterized by composite flower heads.
From the genus name 'Aster' (from Greek 'aster' meaning star) plus the Latin order suffix '-ales,' which is the standard scientific naming convention for plant orders.
Asterales is one of the most successful plant orders ever—its members have evolved the clever trick of packing hundreds of tiny flowers into a single flower head that looks like one big flower, which tricks insects into pollinating many flowers at once.
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