AY Honors/Flower 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