Apios americana, sometimes called the hog peanut, potato bean, or groundnut (but not to be confused with other plants sometimes known by that name) is a perennial vine native to eastern North America, and bears edible beans and large edible tubers. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Fabaceae (legumes) Quillajaceae Polygalaceae (milkwort family) Surianaceae The Fabales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The Family Fabaceae (also as Family Leguminosae) is a grouping of plants in the Order Fabales, and one of the largest families of flowering plants with 650 genera and over 18,000 species. ... Genera Abrus Acosmium Adenocarpus Adenodolichos Adesmia Aenictophyton Aeschynomene Afgekia Aganope Airyantha Aldina Alexa Alhagi Alistilus Almaleea Alysicarpus Amburana Amicia Ammodendron Ammopiptanthus Amorpha Amphicarpaea Amphimas Amphithalea Anagyris Anarthrophyllum Andira Angylocalyx Antheroporum Anthyllis Antopetitia Aotus Aphyllodium Apios Apoplanesia Apurimacia Arachis Argyrocytisus Argyrolobium Arthroclianthus Aspalathus Astracantha Astragalus Ateleia Austrodolichos Austrosteenisia Baphia Baphiopsis Baptisia... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... In scientific classification, synonymy is the existence of multiple systematic names to label the same organism. ... This article is about peanut, the food. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... Green beans Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed. ... A tuber is a part of a rhizome thickened for use as a storage organ, usually, though not always, subterranean, such as a potato. ...

The tubers are palatable and nutritious, with a high content of starch and especially protein. The plant was one of the most important food plants of pre-European North America, and is now being developed for domestication. Starch is a complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Domesticated animals, plants, and other organisms are those whose collective behavior, life cycle, or physiology has been altered as a result of their breeding and living conditions being under human control for multiple generations. ...

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• Domestication of Apios americana
• Plants for a future database