Chrysanthemum, also known commonly as “Mum,” is from the Asteraceae family. It’s native status is from Asia and Northeast Europe. The mum’s original native status was in China. This mum was pictured on 9/14/14 in my backyard in Green, Ohio. This is shown in a nurtured lawn with several different types of planted trees/plants of many different species. Some characters I used to identify this plant were the simple lobed leafs. I also analyzed the floral composition and noticed the flowers were in the shape of a disk. The center portion of the flower cluster had tubular or disk-like flowers. I also noticed that there were many florets–a small flower or an individual flower within a dense cluster. 