Species
Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican sunflower)
Tithonia rotundifolia. Photo: (c) EduwinRojas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The red sunflower or Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia (Mill.) S.F. Blake) is a plant in the Asteraceae family, which is native to the warmer and moister parts of North America.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Order: Asterales (Sunflowers, bellflowers, fanflowers, and allies)
- Family: Asteraceae (Sunflowers, daisies, asters, and allies)
- Subfamily: Asteroideae
- Tribe: Heliantheae (Sunflowers and allies)
- Subtribe: Helianthinae
- Genus: Tithonia (Mexican sunflowers)
- Species: Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican sunflower)
- Genus: Tithonia (Mexican sunflowers)
- Subtribe: Helianthinae
- Tribe: Heliantheae (Sunflowers and allies)
- Subfamily: Asteroideae
- Family: Asteraceae (Sunflowers, daisies, asters, and allies)
- Order: Asterales (Sunflowers, bellflowers, fanflowers, and allies)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)