To introduce plant nomenclature and classification. The idea of plant families is that plants which have something in common can be grouped together. Identifying plant family characteristics plant heroes. Images and descriptions of flowering plant families as treated by arthur cronquist select a family for information and photos.
Family proteaceae family myrtaceae family mimosaceae family rutaceae family asteraceae family lamiaceae. Identifying plants by family characeristics youtube. Biol 474 plant family descriptions alaska geobotany center. Pdf fruit characteristics, life forms, and species richness in the. The plants of the family are collectively known as cucurbits. Perianth is of 4 sepals and 4 petals in a cruciform crosslike arrangement. The family cucurbitaceae includes a large group of crops like cucumbers, and melon which are medicinally essential. Rosaceae family is robustly monophyletic, it has added to the debate on the sub family and tribal groupings. Field identification of the 50 most common plant families. Pdf on jan 1, 2007, heywood and others published flowering plant. An herbal field guide to plant families of north america. Position and structure of leaves symmetry and number of.
Some australian plant families botanical web portal. Bennett encyclopedia of life support systemseolss compound leaves are alternate. Fabaceae third largest plant family over 19000 species found everywhere on world after they have been fertilized, legumes appear fruit is legume many uses. Calendula officinalis characteristics of calendula. I tell my students it is okay if they do not know the name of a single plant at the end of the walk, but i expect them to recognize family characteristics and be able to make logical guesses as to how those plants might be used. Asteraceae, the aster, daisy, or composite family of the floweringplant order asterales. Although many members of this family have distinctive vegetative and floral features, providing a useful key to identify the many genera in. Plant breeders developed the starchstorage abilities of different parts of the plant to come up with each unique vegetable. As you become more familiar with this family, you will begin to notice patterns in the taste and smell of the plants. African species for the treatment of multifactorial diseases. Vegetable plantvegetable plant families and page f their. The very small 5merous flowers have an inferior ovary composed of 25 connate carpels. This family is also known as papilionaceae or fabaceae or commonly known as pea family.
View over 100 characteristics of 2,500 conservation plant species and cultivars including appearance, use in conservation and restoration, growth requirements, and suitability for nrcs practices. Field characteristics of common plant families in new mexico. Cultural characteristics heavy feeders, need lots of n. It is the smallest and most basic social unit, which is also the most important primary group found in any society. Plants that have similar flowers, reproductive structures, other characteristics, and are evolutionarily related, are grouped into plant families see figure 2. It is very important to be able to identify the family that a plant belongs to. Students in biology 211 learn to recognize on sight the family membership of specimens representing 60 flowering plant families.
Plant families australian national botanic gardens education. Host, casey hentges, covers how you can identify plants by their family characteristics. Calendula plant characteristics, uses and composition. The family asteraceae compositae is regarded as the most advanced and highly evolved and is considered to occupy the highest position in the plant kingdom. The word calendula derives from the latin calendas, meaning first of the month. Listed characteristics are the most common characteristics, there might be exceptions in rare species. You can work down the taxonomic hierarchy from major group to find out which families belong to each, to family to work out which genera belong to each or genus to. Identifying plant family characteristics kate olson riverway learning community minnesota city, mn summary in this botany field activity, students make observations of the similarities and differences between three types of garden plants cucumber, pumpkin, and melon to determine why they are grouped together in one plant family. Plant family characteristics authorstream presentation. It refers to the plant blooms every month, even in winter, when temperatures are not too low. The fullsized images linked to thumbnail images on the subsequent pages are nearly all in one of three formats.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. It was one of the first webenabled applications deve\. Bryophytes are also called amphibians of the plant kingdom because these plants can live in soil but are dependent on water for sexual reproduction. Species in the same plant family tend to have similar growth characteristics, nutrient needs, and often the same pests pathogens, herbivores. Rosaceae family is robustly monophyletic, it has added to the debate on the subfamily and tribal groupings. Morphology of flowering plants class 11 notes download in pdf. The plant body of bryophytes is more differentiated than that of algae. Most important plant families alexey shipunov minot state university july 16, 20 shipunov biol 592. Morphology of flowering plants class 11 notes download in pdf morphology the study of various external features of the organism is knownas morphology. They play an important role in plant succession on bare rockssoil.
Pdf flowering plant families of the world researchgate. The flowers of representatives of each of these families are based on the typical flower structure shown below. Commercial mustard is usually made from the seeds of the black mustard b. List of plants in the family asteraceae britannica. Natural resources conservation service national plant data team npdt nrcs. Introduction plants can be identified by observing certain distinguishing morphological characteristics. Family acrididae genus hesperotettix species viridis. Some of the most common plant families are mint family, parsley family, mustard family, pea family, lily family, grass family, rose family and aster family. Flowering plant families of the world pdf free download. Called the nightshade family or the potato family, solanaceae has more than 90 genera and nearly 3,000 species distributed throughout the world. These pages have been compiled from a combination of sources.
The members of this family are worldwide in distribution. Its members are characterized by flowers with five petals, sepals, and stamens and. Plants add organic matter to soil via fibrous roots. Fabaceae is the th ird larg est family of flowering plants behind. Other important tutorial features are twentytwo detailed charts that compare pertinent characteristics of certain related plant groups and a general chart that summarizes the salient features of the families covered in the text.
There are 250,000 species of flowering plants and only. Anacardiaceae cashew family trees, shrub, lianas, or perennial herbs with resin ducts and laticifers sap often toxic often pinnately compound leaves a flowers 5merous, small, with nectary disc b stamens 5 or 10 b one ovule per carpel, 15 carpels in a fruit fruit a drupe examples. Pdf flowering plant families of the world alastair culham. Unesco eolss sample chapters economic botany twentyfive economically important plant families b. Several genera produce edible fruit, most notably annona, anonidium, asimina, rollinia, and uvaria.
The annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. It is a distinct family without any close relatives. Flowers are actinomorphic and without subtending bracts ebracteate. Biol 474 plant family descriptions university of alaska. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest family in the magnoliales. Plants mostly herbaceous annuals, biennials or perennials. The angiosperms are characterized by presence of roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits. With more than 1,620 genera and 23,600 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed throughout the world, asteraceae is one of the largest plant families. Orchids contain several types of nectaries, including the extrafloral types. To assist in the process of learning the patterns that characterize these families, this set of pages with photographs of representatives and family descriptions has been prepared.
They usually have five sepals and petals and many stamens. How to identify six plant families using their flowers. The mixture of blue and yellow produced the characteristic green color associated with. Insects photographic atlas of entomology and guide to insect identification how to know the immature insects insects and diseases of woody. Tiny flowers in a broad, flat cluster arising from a.
There are 746,611 plants, and 608,289 images in this world class database of plants, which is collaboratively developed by over 3,500 members from around the globe. Plants of this family have many medicinal and nutritional benefits. The species included are grouped into 16167 genera, 620 families and 4 major groups. Family characteristics for plant families the following pages provide basic familiy characteristics for most of the families covered in the lab.
To begin to identify plants using morphological characteristics. Apocynaceae from apocynum, greek for dogaway is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison. If you know the family, you know characters of hundreds and thousand. Botany 115 economic plant families palomar college. Apiaceae formerly umbelliferae, carrot or parsley family. It is a terrestrial plant widely distributed in temperature and tropical countries of the world. It is considered to be the second largest family of dicotyledonous plants.
Right click on pdf icon to save target file to your computer. Family myrtaceae plant families australian national. Members of the family are native to the european, asian, african, australian, and american tropics or subtropics, with some temperate members. Use the browse function to explore the taxonomic hierarchy embedded within the plant list. Plants that have similar flowers, reproductive structures, other characteristics, and are evolutionarily related, are grouped into plant families.
The family is an intimate domestic group made up of people related to one another by bonds of blood, sexual mating or legal ties. The tomato the tomato solanum lycopersicum is a shortlived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant, in the solanaceae or nightshade family, typically growing to m tall, with a weakly woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. Pdf we investigated how fruit types, or combinations of fruit types and life forms, affect species number in the large, mostly tropical plant family. Plants are grouped in families based on morphological and genetic characteristics and while this may be most useful to a botanist or a plant systematist, knowing the plant family characteristics can sometimes aid in identification of unknown specimens, and can sometimes help us to select appropriate plants for a specific landscape use.