Compound flower

Compound flower [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names


	A compound flower is a flower head or inflorescence resembling a single flower, but in fact composed of several independent florets enclosed in a common calyx-like involucre, with outer ray flowers forming "petals" surrounding the inner disc flowers, as in the Compositae or Asteraceae family.

(e.g. the sunflower or dandelion)

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