Verbesina, many species of which have crownbeard as part of their common names, is a genus of flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae.

[5][3] All of the species bear white or yellow flowers similar to small sunflowers.

The name Verbesina very likely refers to the similarity of the foliage to that of the (unrelated) Verbena.

Pollen grains from eight of the nine species of Verbesina found in Brazil have been characterized as oblate-spheroidal, medium-sized, isopolar monads.

They are 3-colplorate with a subtriangular amb, a small polar area, a long colpus, a lalongate endoaperture, a caveate[check spelling] exine and an echinate sexine.