Subclass: Liliidae Order: Liliales Family: Liliaceae

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Subclass Liliidae Order Liliales Family
Liliaceae

• 1. Herbaceous perennials
• 2. Actinomorphic
• 3. 3-merous (6 stamen)
• 4. Ovary mostly superior
• Lilium, Smilacina, Allium

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Subclass Liliidae Order Liliales Family
Iridaceae

• 1. Herbaceous perennials
• 2. Equitant Leaves
• 3. Mostly Irregular, Actinomorphic
• 4. 3-merous (3 stamen)
• 5. Ovary mostly inferior
• 6. Fruit capsule
• Iris, Gladiolus, Crocus, Sisyrinchum

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Subclass Commelinidae Order Commelinales Fami
ly Commelinaceae

• 1. Herbs with succulent stems.
• 2. Leaves with closed basal sheath.
• 3. Sepals 3, green.
• 4. Petals usually 3, usually blue.
• 5. Filaments often hairy.
• 6. Ovary superier 3 carpels, 3 locules.
• 7. Six (6) stamen, 3 often stamenoid.
• Trandescantia spiderwort
• Commelina day flower

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Subclass Magnoliidae Order Magnoliales Fami
ly Magnoliaceae magnolia

• 1. Trees or shrubs.
• 2. Leaves alternate,simple, stipulate.
• 3. Solitary flowers perfect regular.
• 4. Numerous flower parts spirally arranged.
• Liriodendron, Magnolia

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Subclass Magnoliidae Order Ranunculales Fami
ly Ranunculaceae

• 1. Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubs or
  vines
• 2. Leaves mostly alternate, often palmately
  divided
• 3. Flowers typically bisexual, actinomorhic or
  zygomorphic
• 4. Calyx 3 to many corolla 5 to many
• 5. Androecium 5 to many
• 6. Gynecium 3 to many pistils superior on knob
• Ranunculus (buttercups), columbine,
  larkspurs, virgins bower

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Subclass Dilleniidae Order Salicales
FamilyBrassicaceae (Cruciferae)

• 1. Herbs
• 2. Leaves simple, often dissected
• 3. Inflorescence usually a raceme
• 4. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic
• 5. Corolla usually 4 petals - cross
• 6. Androecium of 6 stamen 4 long, 2 short
• 7. Gynecium a compound pistil with 2 carpels, 2
  locules
• 8. Fruit a silique or silicle
• Brassica, mustards, shepards purse

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Subclass Asteridae Order
Solanales FamilyPolemoniaceae

• 1. Herbs, shrubs, rarely trees
• 2. Flowers bisexual and actinomorphic
• 3. 5-merous and twisted in the bud
• 4. Calyx of 5 united sepals
• 5. Corolla of 5 united petals
• 6. One style 3 stigma lobes
• 7. Fruit a loculicidal capsule
• Polemonium (Jacobs ladder), Phlox, Gila

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SubclassRosidae Order Apiales Family
Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)

• 1. Aromatic biennial or perennial herbs with
  hollow leaf stems.
• 2. Leaves compound with sheathing bases.
• 3. Inflorescence umbellate.
• 4. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous 2
  carpels.
• Ca5, Co5, A5, G2
• Daucus (wild carrot), Conium (poison
  hemlock),
• Pastinaca (wild parsnip), Sanicula (black
  snakeroot)

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Subclass Caryophyllidae Order
Caryophyllales Family Caryophyllaceae

• 1. Annual or perennial herbs with swollen nodes.
• 2. Leaves opposite simple connected at the base
  with a transverse line.
• 3. Bisexual actinomorphic 5-merous (stamen 5 or
  10).
• 4. Pistil with free central placentation 1
  locule.
• 5. Fruit a dry capsule opening with teeth or
  valves.
• Dianthus (pinks), Stellaria (chickweeds),
• Silene (catchfly), Lychnis (campion)