Living Beings

    subfamily · Scientific classification

    Asteroideae

    Inspect in the tree ↗Browse published profiles
    Source-identified Helianthus annuus; Documentary organism photograph; source identification retained. Framed for display
    Common Sunflower · böhringer friedrich · CC BY-SA 2.5

    Classification in context

    Lineage

    1. LifeLife
    2. DomainEukaryota
    3. KingdomViridiplantae
    4. PhylumStreptophyta
    5. ClassMagnoliopsida
    6. OrderAsterales
    7. FamilyAsteraceae
    Advanced classification

    Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

    1. cellular organisms cellular root
    2. Eukaryota domain
    3. Viridiplantae kingdom
    4. Streptophyta phylum
    5. Streptophytina subphylum
    6. Embryophyta clade
    7. Tracheophyta clade
    8. Euphyllophyta clade
    9. Spermatophyta clade
    10. Magnoliopsida class
    11. Mesangiospermae clade
    12. eudicotyledons clade
    13. Gunneridae clade
    14. Pentapetalae clade
    15. asterids clade
    16. campanulids clade
    17. Asterales order
    18. Asteraceae family
    19. Asteroideae subfamily

    NCBI Taxonomy (2026-11-05 reconciled backbone) · Taxon source ↗

    Records in this collection

    Principal members

    1 published profile in this branch.

    Heliantheae alliance · clade

    Within this taxon

    Published profiles

    Source-identified Helianthus annuus; Documentary organism photograph; source identification retained. Framed for display
    Species · Helianthus

    Common Sunflower

    Helianthus annuus

    The common sunflower is a fast-growing annual in the daisy family. Its conspicuous head is a collection of many small flowers, rather …