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asterid dicot family

DEFINITIONS OF: asterid dicot family

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n family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

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Asteraceae, Compositae, aster family, family Asteraceae, family Compositae
plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
Ambrosiaceae, family Ambrosiaceae
in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds
Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae, madder family
widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
Caprifoliaceae, family Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family
shrubs and small trees and woody vines
Dipsacaceae, family Dipsacaceae
chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads
Polemoniaceae, family Polemoniaceae, phlox family
a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers
Acanthaceae, acanthus family, family Acanthaceae
widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Bignoniaceae, family Bignoniaceae
trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Gesneriaceae, family Gesneriaceae, gesneria family
large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales
Hydrophyllaceae, family Hydrophyllaceae, waterleaf family
perennial woodland herbs
Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, mint family
a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary
Scrophulariaceae, family Scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family
a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
Solanaceae, family Solanaceae, potato family
large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra
Verbenaceae, family Verbenaceae, verbena family, vervain family
family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees
Avicenniaceae, family Avicenniaceae
used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia
Valerianaceae, family Valerianaceae, valerian family
genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor
Campsis radicans, trumpet creeper, trumpet vine
a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers
mint
any member of the mint family of plants
Type of:
dicot family, magnoliopsid family
family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
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