Heterotheca grandiflora (Telegraph weed)

2/24/2010 · Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 9 × 6″ (23 × 15 cm)

2/24/2010 · Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad, California · ≈ 16 × 11″ (41 × 27 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Asterales	Flowering plants with a central disk flower and surrounding petals, like daisies
Family	Asteraceae	The aster family, which also includes daisies and sunflowers; from the Greek ἀστήρ, “star,” for the star-shaped flowers
Genus	Heterotheca	Derived from the Greek heteros, “different,” and theke, “ovary,” from the unlike achenes of the ray and disk florets
Species	grandiflora	Large-flowered