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A damned or damn yellow composite (DYC) is any of the numerous species of composite flowers (family
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Slang Flowers Asteraceae {{asteraceae-stub
A damned or damn yellow composite (DYC) is any of the numerous species of composite flowers (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 ...
) that have yellow flowers and can be difficult to tell apart in the field. page 230 It is a jocular term, and sometimes reserved for those yellow composites of no particular interest. Notable individuals who referred to these flowers as "DYCs" include Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the Uni ...
and Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (''née'' Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson. She previously served as Second Lady from 1961 to 1963 whe ...
. page 172
See also
* Little brown mushroom *Little brown job
Little brown bird (LBB) or little brown job (LBJ) is an informal name used by birdwatchers for any of the large number of species of small brown passerine
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '- ...
(a hard to identify bird)
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Slang Flowers Asteraceae {{asteraceae-stub