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Plant Families

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Having bulbs or underground stems and strap-like leaves.
Is known by many names-the cabbage family, crucifers, mustards, and cole crops.
Many members contain potent alkaloids, and some are highly toxic, others are major food sources. Some familiar members include potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, as well as tobacco and petunias.
The willow family of flowering plants consists of trees or shrubs that have simple, alternate leaves and are usually deciduous.
Maple, buckeye, and horse chestnut trees are members of this family.
Kudzu, lupine, wisteria, clover, as well as peas and beans are members of this family.
Okra, cotton, cacao, hollyhocks, linden trees, and hibiscus are familiar mallows.
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Cypress family trees contain terpenoids and terpenes, which give them a strong and pleasant odor.
Their most distinctive characteristic is their unique inflorescence (structure of their flowers).
Most species are sensitive to frost and grow on fast growing prostrate or climbing vines with spirally coiled tendrils to help support the vining stems.
Many members of the heath family tolerate poor, acidic soil. Blueberries and cranberries, as well as azaleas and rhododendrons are well known examples.
Widely distributed around the world these herbs or shrubs have distinctively 4-sided stems and many have strongly scented leaves and stems.
Most grow from bulbs, although some have rhizomes. Common characteristics include large flowers and leaves are linear in shape with veins running parallel to the edges.
Some of the edible fruits of this family are peaches, apricots, plums, and strawberries.
Its flowers are nearly always aggregated in terminal umbels and are a defining characteristic of the carrot family.
A living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and produces seeds.