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Flowering Plants
Magnoliophyta - Flowering Plants
Early Diverging Angiosperms
P∞ A∞ G∞
Tepals, laminar stamens, apocarpic
Aristolochia
Asarum
Aristolochiaceae - birthwort family
Asarum canadense - wild ginger Creeping rhizome; pair of
cordate (heart-shaped) per
year; hairy plants with
trichomes over the petioles,
flower etc.
• Mucilaginous coverings
• Lack of vessels
Nymphaeaceae - water lily family
• Floating or submersed leaves
• Mucilaginous coverings
N and H
Nymphaeaceae - water lily family
CA 3+ CO ∞ A ∞ G (∞)
• Laminar stamens
Laminar stamens
grading from petals
to pistils
Nymphaeaceae - water lily family
Beetle pollination
Cabombaceae - water shield family
Brasenia shreberi - water shield
Golden-seal
Nigella
Love-in-a-mist
Black seed
Black cumin
Fennel flower
Roman coriander
Ranunculaceae - buttercup family
• Herbs, sometimes woody or herbaceous climbers
or low shrubs - often poisonous
• No stipules.
Ranunculaceae - buttercup family
• Flowers very variable: except many stamens and many
free carpels (apocarpic)
• Floral shape varies: some actinomorphic/zygomorphic
and some have spurs. Mostly insect and animal
pollinated group.
• Mostly bisexual flowers, but some species dioecious
CA 3+ CO (0)5+ A∞ G 3+
Ranunculaceae - buttercup family
Fruits:
Follicles = ∞ seeded
dehiscent fruit
Actaea - baneberry
Ranunculaceae - buttercup family
Fruits:
Anemone patens -
pasque flower
Anemone canadensis -
Canada anemone
Ranunculaceae - buttercup family
Anemone quinquefolia -
wood anemone
male female