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Phacelia
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Phacelia Juss.
Species

Many, see List of Phacelia Species Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 454 KB)This image is also uploaded to Commons under the same name (same author also). ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - 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 (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major 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 See text The Order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Genera many, see text Boraginaceae Juss. ... Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist. ... List of Phacelia Species in the family Boraginaceae. ...

Phacelia is a genus in the family Boraginaceae of about 150 species of herbs, native of Western North America (the most), Eastern U.S.A. and South America. The genus was formerly treated in the separate family Hydrophyllaceae but was transferred by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to the Boraginaceae on genetic evidence. Genera many, see text Boraginaceae Juss. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Genera Ellisia Emmenanthe Eriodictyon Eucrypta Hesperochiron Hydrolea Hydrophyllum Lemmonia Nama Nemophila Phacelia Pholistoma Romanzoffia Tricardia Turricula Wigandia The Hydrophyllaceae, or waterleaf family, are a family of flowering plants. ... The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international group of systematic botanists who have come together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants in the light of the rapid rise of molecular systematics. ...


Many species are cultivated as garden plants.


See also

List of Phacelia Species in the family Boraginaceae. ...

References

  • Olmstead, R. G., Kim, K-J., Jansen, R. K., & Wagstaff, S. J. (2000). The phylogeny of the Asteridae sensu lato based on chloroplast ndhF gene sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 16: 96–112.

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