Plant Group: Dicotyledon
Family Description:
Herbs or climbers, leaves spirally arranged, lacking stipules, often dissected. Flowers usually hermaphroditic and actinomorphic. Perianth undifferentiated, or may have corolla of nectaries, stamens numerous, carpels free, fruit achenes.
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Clematis Climbers, leaves simple or 1-3 times divided, leaflets ovate or lanceolate; flowers in axillary panicles, flowers of 4-8 segments, fruit an achene with a long tail bearing silky plumes. |
aristata |
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Clematis Climbers, leaves simple or 1-3 times divided, leaflets ovate or lanceolate; flowers in axillary panicles, flowers of 4-8 segments, fruit an achene with a long tail bearing silky plumes. |
microphylla |
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Ranunculus Annual or perennial herbs, creeping, rhizomatous stoloniferous or clumping. Leaves are lobed or pinnately divided. Flowers are solitary and axillary and often on long stalks, sepals 3-5, petals 3-many in whorls, white or yellow, glossy, nectary near upper base, stamens many, carpels free, fruit an achene with beak-like persistent style. |
amphitrichus |
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Ranunculus Annual or perennial herbs, creeping, rhizomatous stoloniferous or clumping. Leaves are lobed or pinnately divided. Flowers are solitary and axillary and often on long stalks, sepals 3-5, petals 3-many in whorls, white or yellow, glossy, nectary near upper base, stamens many, carpels free, fruit an achene with beak-like persistent style. |
sardous |
Classification:
| Genus | Species |
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| Clematis | Clematis aristata |
| Clematis | Clematis microphylla |
| Ranunculus | Ranunculus amphitrichus |
| Ranunculus | Ranunculus sardous |