Botany Cards2

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Alismataceae

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Scapose aquatic or wetland, glabrous herbs with bisexual flowers with 3 green sepals and 3 petals bearing an apocarpous gynoecium with many free carpels resulting in a spiral or ring of achenes

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Hydrocharitaceae

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Aquatic Herbs of fresh or marine waters with uni- or bisexual flowers with an inferior, compound ovary. Leaves simple, usually ribbon like.

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Juncaginaceae

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Herbs usually of marshes with uni- or bisexual flowers. Leaves basal, simple, sheathing

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Najadaceae

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Submerged aquatic herbs occurring in fresh, brackish water, with solitary, unisexual flowers at the base of the branches.

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Arecidae

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The numerous, small flowers are aggregated into a dense spadix and subtended by a prominent spathe or several spathes.

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Araceae

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Herbs or sometimes shrubs of mainly wet places with a spadix subtended by a spathe bearing small or minute flowers that often lack a perianth.

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Lemnaceae

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Small or minute floating or submerged aquatic herbs lacking leaves, rarely producing flowers that lack an perianth.

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Commelinidae

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Plants mostly herbaceous to somewhat woody. Flowers mostly small and usually trimerous with well differentiated sepals and petals becoming reduced and chaffy. Ovary is Superior.

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Juncaceae

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Tufted graminoid herbs with narrow leaves reduced to only a basal sheath so nodes are inconspicuous, stem typically filled with pith so usually solid, not hollow. Flowers are 3-merous and consist of scale like tepals six stamens, prominent, corkscrew-shaped styles and 3-locular capsule.

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Cyperaceae

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Graminoid herbs often with a 3-angled, solid stem bearing 3-ranked, closed sheathed, aligulated leaves, with the flowers subtended by a single bract and consisting of a perianth - when present - reduced to bristles or scles.

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Poaceae

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Graminoid herbs often with a rounded, hollow stem with the flowers subtended by a series of bracts and consisting of a perianth reduced to lodicules. Leaves distichous sheathing and usually ligulate

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Sparganiaceae

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Aquatic herbs with unisexual flowers in globose heads. 2-ranked, sheathing

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Typhaceae

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Large graminoid herbs with round, solid stems bearing 2-ranked linear leaves and a dense cylindrical spike divided into a staminate and pistillate part, the perianth reduced to slendar threads or elongated scales.

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Liliidae

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Flowers generally 3-merous and often with the sepals petaloid with the stamens usually 3 or 6 the gynoecim mostly 3 carpelate and united to form a superior or inferior ovary.

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Iridaceae

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Perennial herbs with small to large generally showy, actinomorphic or zygomorphic flowers of 3 petaloid sepals and 3 petals, 3 stamens and an inferior ovary producing rhizomes, corms or bulbs.

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Orchidaceae

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Terrestrial, epiphytic or saprophytic perennial herbs with and zygomorphic, 3 - merous flowers occasionally bearing a labelum or lip and pollinia and an inferior ovary. Flowers are twisted 180 degrees during development so overy appears twisted.