asterid dicot family

Definitions of asterid dicot family

1. noun

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

   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