GRASS FAMILY most numerous and widely distributed family of plants wind pollinated, most important food producing family-careals wheat barley rye oats.. | ||
LILLY FAMILY large flowers sepals and petals similar in form=tepals | ||
ORCHID FAMILY bilateral symmetry, paired anthers (pollinia) highly adaptive some look like bees for pollenating reasons | ||
AQUATIC PLANTS lack roots and stomata | ||
BUTTERCUP FAMILY treats diarrhea | ||
POPPY FAMILY herbaceous, opium is in this category big hallucination! | ||
MUSTARD FAMILY formally cruciferae petals arranged like a cross | ||
ROSE FAMILY drupes: cherries; pomes: apples; Aggregate fruits: strawberries; Rose hips= fruit of roses/60x more vit. c than same amount of citrus; prevented scurvy among native americans | ||
LEGUME FAMILY nitrogen fixation 79% of air is nitrogen not available to plants; kidney beans, licorice | ||
CACTUS FAMILY fleshey stems store water, only flower after big rain, cam psn (open stomata only at night) leaves modified and reduced into spines | ||
MINT FAMILY square stems full of oils | ||
nightshade family; many poisonous drugs came from this family such as atropa (mona lisa), jimson weed, nicotine, also potatoes and tomatoes | ||
CARROT FAMILY flowers are small and arranged in umbels (all branches originate from a single point) water hemlock most poisonous plant in il used to kill socrates | ||
PUMPKIN FAMILY fused petals; flowers unisexual(incomplete) staminate and carpellate flowers | ||
SUNFLOWER FAMILY 2 types of florets 1 disk, 2 ray; insect pollinated, fruit is an achene |
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