学名  Boltonia asteroides (L.) L'Hér.
中文名  竹叶菊

竹叶菊，菊科偶雏菊属多年生草本。叶互生，披针形，头状花序顶生和腋生，中央管状花黄色，边缘舌状花白色或淡紫色。原产北美，我国引入栽培。摄于上海辰山植物园。

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Plants 30–200 mm; stoloniferous. Stems erect. Leaf blades linear or lanceolate to oblanceolate; cauline 20–220 × 2–30 mm, bases not decurrent . Heads usually in corymbiform, sometimes paniculiform arrays, branches spreading to ascending, most bracts leaflike, 15–120 × 2–18 mm. Peduncles 5–220 mm; bracts 0–15, linear to subulate or ovate to oblanceolate, 2–12(–62) mm. Involucres 3–5 × 4–14 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series, subulate, linear, lanceolate, or spatulate, subequal, 0–6 merging down peduncles; outer 1.5–3.8 × 0.4–1.6 mm; inner 2.1–4 × 0.3–1.5. Ray florets 20–60; corollas white to lilac, laminae 5–13 mm, tubes 0.5–1.7 mm. Disc florets 65–170; corollas 1.5–2.6 mm. Cypselae obovoid, 1–3 × 0.8–2 mm, wings 0.1–0.5 mm wide; pappi awns 0.4–2 mm (lengths ± 2 / 3 cypselae).

另外，中国原产的碱菀(Tripolium pannonicum)有个中文别名也叫竹叶菊，同名异物，光看中文名容易混淆，应注意实物、照片和拉丁语学名相互印证鉴别。