? Plumbaginaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Plumbaginaceae Juss.
Genera
(examples) Armeria Ceratostigma Limonium Plumbago

The Plumbaginaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes a number of popular garden species, which are grown world wide for their attractive flowers. They are sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. Perezs Sealavendar growing by the San Francisco Bay Trail in Tiburon, California. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... 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. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Achatocarpaceae Aizoaceae (Fig-marigold family) Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) Ancistrocladaceae Asteropeiaceae Barbeuiaceae Basellaceae (basella family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Caryophyllaceae (carnation family) Dioncophyllaceae Droseraceae (sundew family) Drosophyllaceae Frankeniaceae Molluginaceae (carpetweed family) Nepenthaceae Nyctaginaceae (four-oclock family) Physenaceae Phytolaccaceae (pokeweed family) Plumbaginaceae (plumbago family) Polygonaceae (buckwheat family) Portulacaceae (purslane family) Rhabdodendraceae... Portrait of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist. ... Armería is a municipality in the Mexican state of Colima. ... Species include: Limonium perezii The Sea Lavenders, Sealavenders or Statices are the genus Limonium of flowering plants, some members of which were formerly classified in a genus named Statice. ... Species Plumbago auriculata - Cape leadwort Plumbago scandens et al. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... 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. ... A gardener Gardening is the craft of growing plants with the goal of creating a beautiful environment. ...

Most species in this family are perennial plants growing as forbs, but a few grow as lianas or shrubs. The plants are hermaphrodite and are fertilised by insects. They are found in many different climatic regions, from arctic to tropical conditions, but are particularly associated with salt steppes, marshes, and sea coasts. In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... A forb is a non-woody flowering plant that is not a grass. ... A liana is woody climber. ... 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 1st-century BC sculpture The Reclining Hermaphrodite, in the Museo Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme in Rome In zoology, a hermaphrodite is an organism of a species whose members possess both male and female sexual organs during their lives. ... Classes & Orders Subclass:Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass:Pterygota Infraclass: Paleoptera (paraphyletic) Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Diaphanopterodea - extinct Protodonata - extinct Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass: Neoptera Superorder: Exopterygota Orders Caloneroptera - extinct Titanoptera - extinct Protorthoptera - extinct Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera... The steppe of Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, steppe (from Slavic step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally reckoned as being dominated by tall grasses, while short grasses are said...

Under the Cronquist system, the Plumbaginaceae were placed in a separate order, the Plumbaginales, which included no other families. More modern classifications, such as that of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, place them in the Caryophyllales. The Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). ... 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. ... Families Achatocarpaceae Aizoaceae (Fig-marigold family) Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) Ancistrocladaceae Asteropeiaceae Barbeuiaceae Basellaceae (basella family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Caryophyllaceae (carnation family) Dioncophyllaceae Droseraceae (sundew family) Drosophyllaceae Frankeniaceae Molluginaceae (carpetweed family) Nepenthaceae Nyctaginaceae (four-oclock family) Physenaceae Phytolaccaceae (pokeweed family) Plumbaginaceae (plumbago family) Polygonaceae (buckwheat family) Portulacaceae (purslane family) Rhabdodendraceae...

Nearly 800 species are currently recognised in this family, organised into about 24 genera. Genera include:

• Acantholimon
• Aegialitis
• Armeria, the thrifts or seapinks
• Bamiana
• Buciniczea
• Cephalorhizum
• Ceratostigma, the leadwoods
• Chaetolimon
• Dictyolimon
• Dyerophytum
• Eremolimon
• Ghasnianthus
• Goniolimon
• Ikonnikovia
• Limoniastrum
• Limoniopsis
• Limonium, some members of which were formerly classified as Statice, the sealavenders or statices
• Meullerolimon
• Neogontscharovia
• Plumbagella
• Plumbago, the leadworts or plumbagos
• Popoviolimon
• Psylliostachys
• Vassilczenkoa

Species See text. ... Armería is a municipality in the Mexican state of Colima. ... Species About 120-150 species; see text Thrift is the genus Armeria of flowering plants. ... Leadwood is used in the following contexts: Leadwood, Missouri is a town in the USA. The Leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe is an African tree. ... Species include: Limonium perezii The Sea Lavenders, Sealavenders or Statices are the genus Limonium of flowering plants, some members of which were formerly classified in a genus named Statice. ... Species include: Limonium perezii The Sea Lavenders, Sealavenders or Statices are the genus Limonium of flowering plants, some members of which were formerly classified in a genus named Statice. ... Species Plumbago auriculata - Cape leadwort Plumbago scandens et al. ...

External link

• Plumbaginaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com