Week 1 Plant Families

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Pinaceae

Hint 1

Gymnosperm
Leaves: needles
Flowers: none
Fruits: none, seeds in cones
Stem: woody

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Cupressaceae

Hint 2

Gymnosperm
Leaves: scale like
Flowers: none
Fruits: seeds in cones or small berry like bunches
Stem: woody

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Ephedraceae

Hint 3

Gymnosperm
Leaves: highly reduced
Flowers: none
Fruits: none
Stem: jointed, green

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Magnoliaceae

Hint 4

Leaves: simple, alternating, usually entire.
Flowers: spirally arranged,
Fruits: bunches resemble cone, dry dihescent with one suture.
Stem: stipular ring, woody
Other: none native to CA, many ornamentals

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Ranunculaceae

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Leaves:
Flowers: spirally arranged, no hypanthium
Fruits: achene, follicle or berry

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Berberidaceae

Hint 6

Leaves: often spiney-toothed
Flowers: 3-merous, 666 calyx-corolla-stamen
superior ovaries
Fruits: berry
Stem: woody
Other: anthers with flaps

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Lauraceae

Hint 7

Flowers: 3-merous, corolla 0
inferior ovaries
Fruits: drupe
Stem: woody
Other: anthers with flaps

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Papaveraceae

Hint 8

Leaves: varied
Flowers: solitary, corolla 2x calyx. Many fused pistils.
Fruits: capsule, dehiscent by apical pores.

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Fumariaceae

Hint 9

Leaves: often compound
Flowers: bilaterally symmetrical, corolla 2+2, stamens 3+3.
Other: likely apart of the poppy family

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Juglandaceae

Hint 10

Leaves: pinnately compound
Flowers: catkins
Stem: woody

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Fagaceae

Hint 11

Leaves: simple and alternate, entire or lobed
Flowers: Catkins
Stem: woody

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Betulaceae

Hint 12

Leaves: simple and alternate, often serrate
Flowers: Catkins, females with woody brachs
Stem: woody