asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia

Baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree - a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts

Baccharis viminea, mule fat - California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer

Baccharis pilularis, chaparral broom, coyote brush, coyote bush, kidney wort - widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle