Family names 3

papaveraceae

poppy family

Ranunculaceae

buttercup family

platanaceae

planetree family

crassulaceae

stonecrop family

hamamelidaceae

witch hazel family

vitaceae

grape family

euphorbiaceae

spurge family

passifloraceae

passionflower family

salicaceae

willow family

fabaceae

bean/pea family

rosaceae

rose family

moraceae

mulberry/fig family

ulmaceae

elm family

papaveraceae

papaver spp. (poppy)

papaveraceae

Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot)

papaveraceae

Chelidonium majus (greater celandine)

papaveraceae

Dicentra spp. (Dutchman’s breeches, bleeding heart)

Ranunculaceae

Delphinium sp. (larkspur)

Ranunculaceae

Aquilegia sp. (columbine)

Ranunculaceae

Aconitum spp. (monkshood)

Ranunculaceae

Actaea spp. (black cohosh, white baneberry)

Ranunculaceae

Hydrastis canadensis (goldenseal)

Ranunculaceae

Clematis virginiana (virgin’s bower)

Ranunculaceae

Ranunculus spp. (buttercup)

Platanaceae

Platanus spp. (American sycamore, London planetree,

Oriental planetree)

Crassulaceae

Dudleya farinosa [syn. Echeveria farinose], bluff lettuce

Crassulaceae

Sempervivum tectorum (hen & chicks)

Crassulaceae

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (kalanchoe)

Crassulaceae

Crassula spp. (crassula, including jade plant)

Crassulaceae

Sedum spp. (stonecrop)

Hamamelidaceae

Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum) – formerly of

Hammamelidaceae, now in Altingiaceae

Hamamelidaceae

Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)

Vitaceae

Vitis spp. (grapes, riverbank grapes, fox grapes)

Vitaceae

Parthenocissus spp. (Virginia creeper, Boston ivy)

Euphorbiaceae

Manihot esculenta (cassava)

Euphorbiaceae

Ricinus communis (castor bean)

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbia spp. (spurge)

Passifloraceae

Passiflora spp. (passionflower)

Salicaceae

Salix spp. (willows)

Salicaceae

Populus spp. (aspens, poplars)

Moraceae

Artocarpus spp. (breadfruit, jackfruit)

Moraceae

Maclura pomifera (osage-orange)

Moraceae

Ficus spp. (fig)

Moraceae

Morus spp. (mulberry)

Ulmaceae

Ulmus spp. (elm)

Ulmaceae

Celtis occidentalis (common hackberry) - formerly in

Ulmaceae, now in Cannabaceae

Ulmaceae

Zelkova (Japanese zelkova)

Fabaceae old name

[Leguminosae]

What is the synapomorphy of the eudicots?

tricolpate or tricolpate-derived pollen

What are the features of the Pentapetalae

clade (the core eudicots)?

five sepals and petals,

10 (to many) stamens,

often three or five connate carpels

Papaveraceae

Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs or

small trees

Papaveraceae

Herbs with milky or colored latex often

present

Papaveraceae

Sepals caducous (fall off easily)

Papaveraceae

Petals distinct, 4 or 6 or more, sometimes

crumpled

Papaveraceae

Numerous stamens

Papaveraceae

Two to several united carpels

(syncarpous)

Papaveraceae

Fruit a poricidal capsule

Ranunculaceae

Mainly in temperate and boreal regions

Ranunculaceae

Fruit is an aggregate of follicles, achenes or

berries

Ranunculaceae

Corolla apopetalous, with few to numerous

petals, sometimes spurred (convergent

evolution)

Ranunculaceae

Mostly herbs with simple to compound leaves

with sheathing leaf bases

Ranunculaceae

Perennial or annual shrubs, herbs or lianas

Ranunculaceae

Terrestrial or aquatic

Platanaceae

Trees with bark shedding as flat

plates

Platanaceae

Leaves simple, alternate, palmately lobed and veined; with

encircling stipules

Platanaceae

Multiple Fruit of Achenes

Crassulaceae

Succulent herbs or shrubs

Crassulaceae

Flowers 4 or

5-merous

bisexual or perfect flowers

Crassulaceae

actinomorphic with an

apocarpous gynoecium

Crassulaceae

fruit a follicetum

Hamamelidaceae

Radial, 4 or 5-merous flowers, perfect or imperfect

Hamamelidaceae

Trees or shrubs with simple, alternate leaves; often with stellate trichomes

Hamamelidaceae

Perianth is dichlamydeous

Hamamelidaceae

Tetramerous flowers

calyx is aposepalous or synsepalous with 4-5 sepals/lobes

corolla is apopetalous with 4-5 usually narrow sepals

the stamens are 4-5, alternipetalous

Hamamelidaceae

Gynoecium is syncarpous with

a superior to inferior ovary

Hamamelidaceae

Fruit is a woody capsule

derived from a bicarpellate

gynoecium which is basally

connate and has diverging,

hardened styles

Vitaceae

Lianas (rarely herbs or pachycaulous trees)

Vitaceae

Tendril-bearing, climbing woody vines with

inflorescences and tendrils often opposite

the leaves

Vitaceae

inflorescences typically

opposite the leaves

Vitaceae

tendrils typically

opposite the leaves

Vitaceae

Leaves simple, palmate or pinnate

• Flowers small, with a valvate

apopetalous or calyptrate corolla

• Antipetalous stamens

Euphorbiacea

Herbs (PA), often with milky latex

Euphorbiacea

Worldwide, euphorbs occur as shrubs, trees, lianas, and even

as cactoid forms in xerophytic habitats

Euphorbiacea

Unisexual, often highly reduced flowers with a

3-carpellate gynoecium

Passifloraceae

Herbs, shrubs, tendril-bearing woody vines or trees

Passifloraceae

Leaves alternate, simple to palmately lobed

Passifloraceae

Herbaceous perennial vines (PA) climbing by tendrils

Passifloraceae

Actinomorphic flowers perfect or imperfect, hypanthium present

Five sepals, basally connate, often petaloid

Five petals distinct or basally connate

Passifloraceae

Androgynophore: A stalk

bearing both the androecium

and gynoecium of a flower

above the level of insertion of

the perianth.

Passifloraceae

Perianth, back view,

showing three bracts, five sepals, and five petals

• Corona with numerous

linear lobes developed between petals and

stamens

• Ovary cross section,

Salicaceae

Catkin-bearing dioecious trees

and shrubs with alternate,

simple leaves with stipules

Salicaceae

Reduced, imperfect (unisexual)

flowers subtended by fringed

bracts

Salicaceae

Comose seeds (i.e., bearing a

coma – a terminal tuft of hairs)

Salicaceae

Petals absent

Salicaceae

Fruit a thin-walled, 1-

locular capsule that splits open to release seeds bearing conspicuous tufts of hair

Fabaceae

Herbs, shrubs, vines, and trees with

alternate, compound leaves (usually)

Fabaceae

Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic, 5-

merous, and monocarpous

Fabaceae

Fruit a legume (or modified legume)

Fabaceae

Roots often with nodules containing

Rhizobium bacteria which fix N2

Rosaceae

Diverse family – trees, shrubs and herbs