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Asteraceae

4-Helianthus head

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What looks like a single flower in the Asteraceae is actually a head or capitulum inflorescence. This is a radiate head with both ray and disk flowers of Helianthus annuus.

Photo by K. R. Robertson in North Dakota.

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