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Caragana pygmaea foliage and flowers
Caragana pygmaea foliage and flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Caragana
Fabr.
Species

See text Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... 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 name Fabaceae belongs to either of two families, depending on viewpoint. ... Tribes Abreae Adesmieae Aeschynomeneae Amorpheae Bossiaeeae Brongniartieae Carmichaelieae Cicereae Crotalarieae Dalbergieae Desmodieae Dipterygeae Euchresteae Galegeae Genisteae Hedysareae Indigofereae Liparieae Loteae Millettieae Mirbelieae Phaseoleae Podalyrieae Psoraleeae Robinieae Sophoreae Swartzieae Thermopsideae Trifolieae Vicieae Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. ...

Caragana is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe. Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The name Fabaceae belongs to either of two families, depending on viewpoint. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... World map showing Europe Political map (neighbouring countries in Asia and Africa also shown) Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ...


They are shrubs or small trees growing 1-6 m tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod. A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... The leaves of a Beech tree A leaf with laminar structure and pinnate venation In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ...

Selected species
  • Caragana ambigua Stocks
  • Caragana arborescens Lam.
  • Caragana aurantiaca Koehne
  • Caragana boisii C.K.Schneid.
  • Caragana brachyantha Rech.f.
  • Caragana brevifolia Kom.
  • Caragana brevispina Royle ex Benth.
  • Caragana bungei Ledeb.
  • Caragana camilli-schneideri Kom.
  • Caragana conferta Benth.
  • Caragana decorticans Hemsl.
  • Caragana densa Kom.
  • Caragana erinacea Kom.
  • Caragana franchetiana Kom.
  • Caragana frutex (L.) K.Koch
  • Caragana gerardiana Royle ex Benth.
  • Caragana grandiflora DC.
  • Caragana jubata (Pall.) Poir.
  • Caragana korshinskii Kom.
  • Caragana leucophloea Pojark.
  • Caragana leveillei Kom.
  • Caragana manshurica (Kom.) Kom.
  • Caragana microphylla Lam.
  • Caragana pleiophylla (Regel) Pojark.
  • Caragana polourensis Franch.
  • Caragana pruinosa Kom.
  • Caragana pygmaea (L.) DC.
  • Caragana roborovskyi Kom.
  • Caragana rosea Turcz. ex Kom.
  • Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehder
  • Caragana sophoraelia Tausch
  • Caragana spinosa (L.) Vahl ex Hornem.
  • Caragana stenophylla Pojark.
  • Caragana tangutica Maxim. ex Kom.
  • Caragana tibetica Maxim. ex Kom.
  • Caragana tragacanthoides (Pall.) Poir.
  • Caragana turkestanica Kom.
  • Caragana ulicina Stocks
  • Caragana versicolor Benth.

References


  Results from FactBites:
 
Caragana in China (2664 words)
Summary Caragana is an important genus of drought - resistant leguminous shrubs, common in north - western China and on the Tibet Plateau.
Caragana is a typical deciduous xerophilous shrub and dominant life form of desert vegetation and shrub grassland communities.
Caragana is a very useful genus both as a component of the wild vegetation and for revegetation and livestock feed in harsh, semi-arid to arid, cold climates with hot summers.
Caragana (634 words)
Caragana arborescens is commonly referred to as Siberian Peashrub or Caragana.
Caragana is drought and salt tolerant and thrives in relatively poor or sandy, well drained soil.
Caragana naturally grows as a bush, 3-4 meters high, but can be trained to a tree or a hedge if pruned accordingly.
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