AY Honors/Flower families

To do:
Add family descriptions and add members of remaining families

Lily

Turk's Cap Lily
Wild Garlic
Onion
Trillium
Fawn Lily
Tulip
Hyacinth

Mustard

Cabbage
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Brussels sprouts
Mustard
Horseradish
Watercress

Pink

Swamp Milkweed
Common Milkweed
Butterfly Plant
Sand Milkweed
Whorled Milkweed

Buttercup

Columbine
Marsh Marigold
Thimbleweed
Clematis
Hellbore
Larkspur
Buttercup

Cactus

Saguaro
Barrel Cactus
Prickly Pear
Rabbit Ear

Rose

Members of the Rose family have 5 sepals and 5 petals which are flat and wavy at the margins. Each flower has at least ten stamens. All members of the rose family have a hypanthium, which is a bowl-shaped part of a flower consisting of the bottoms of the sepals, petals, and stamens stuck together.

Rose
Apple
Blackberry
Strawberry
Raspberry
Apple
Plum
Peach
Cherry
Pear

Bean

All members of this family have five-petaled flowers in which the superior ovary ripens to form a "pod", technically called a legume, whose two sides split apart, releasing the seeds which are attached to one or both seams. A significant characteristic of legumes is that they host bacteria in their roots, within structures called root nodules. These bacteria have the ability to take nitrogen gas out of the air and convert it to a form of nitrogen that is usable to the host plant. This process is called nitrogen fixation.

Bean
Lupins
Clover
Alfalfa
Peas
Peanuts
Soybeans
Lentils
Mimosa
Kudzu

Parsley

The parsley family has flower clusters being in the form of a compound "umbel". The small flowers are radially symmetrical with 5 small sepals, 5 petals and 5 stamens.

Cumin
Parsley
Carrot (Queen Anne's Lace)
Dill
Caraway
Fennel
Angelica

Smartweed

Ocreae

The seeds of the plants belonging to the smartweed family have a triangular shape. Leaves of these plants have a peculiar pair of sheathing stipules known as ocreae.

Buckwheat
Sorrel
Rhubarb
Knotgrass

Bellflower

The Bellflower family consists mostly of herbs, shrubs, and more rarely small trees, which usually have milky non-toxic sap. Leaves of these species are often alternate, more rarely opposite. They are also simple and without stipules. Flowers are bisexual, bell-shape, consisting of a narrow tube-like corolla with small spreading lobes. Flowers are fairly often blue. Fruits are often berries, but can also be capsules.

Bluebell
Harebell
Lobelia
Balloonflower

Mint

The flowers in the Mint family typically have petals fused into an upper lip and a lower lip. The leaves emerge oppositely, each pair at right angles to the previous one or whorled. The stems are frequently square in cross section, but this is not found in all members of the family, and is sometimes found in other plant families. The flowers are bilaterally symmetrical with 5 united petals, 5 united sepals. They are usually bisexual and have a flower cluster that looks like a whorl of flowers but actually consists of two crowded clusters.

Basil
Mint
Rosemary
Sage
Savory
Marjoram
Oregano
Thyme
Lavender
Perilla