''Buphthalmum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family,

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

. There are 2 or 3 species. They are native to

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

, and ''B. salicifolium'' is in cultivation and has been introduced elsewhere.''Buphthalmum''.
Flora of China.Altervista Flora Italiana, genere ''Buphthalmum''
includes photos ad European distribution maps These are perennial herbs with alternately arranged leaves. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is a solitary

flower head A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...

atop the stem. The head has very narrow

phyllaries In botanical terminology, a phyllary, also known an involucral bract or tegule, is a single bract of the involucre of a composite flower. The involucre is the grouping of bracts together. Phyllaries are reduced leaf-like structures that form one o ...

, yellow ray florets and yellow disc florets. The fruit is a cypsela usually tipped with a pappus of scales; those growing from the ray florets may lack pappi. ; Accepted species * '' Buphthalmum inuloides'' –

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

* ''

Buphthalmum salicifolium ''Buphthalmum salicifolium'' is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is known by the common name ox-eye. It is native to Europe. This perennial herb reaches 50 to 70 centimeters in height with an erect, purple-red ste ...

'' – western, central, + southern

; introduced in China,

southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

References

Inuleae Asteraceae genera Flora of Europe Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Asteroideae-stub