Asterids are a large clade of flowering plants, composed of 17 orders and more than 80,000 species, about a third of the total flowering plant species. The asterids are divided into the unranked clade

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae. The term angiosperm is derived from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον and σπέρμα, meaning that the seeds are enclosed w