Encelia virginensis (Acton encilia)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Asterales	Flowering plants with a central disk flower and surrounding petals, like daisies
Family	Asteraceae	The aster family, which also includes daisies and sunflowers; from the Greek ἀστήρ, “star,” for the star-shaped flowers
Genus	Encelia	Named for German naturalist Christoph Entzelt
Species	virginensis	Professor Curtis Clark of the Biological Sciences Department at Cal State Polytechnic University, an authority on Encelia, informs me that “virginensis” is “named after the Virgin River, that runs from southwestern Utah into Nevada, where it merges with the Colorado at Lake Mead. E. virginensis is found along the river from the lower elevations of Zion National Park all the way to Lake Mead”