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| Stems round or flat, jointed, and usually hollow between nodes; leaves narrow and with parallel venation |
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| Grass-like; triangular stems; 3-ranked leaves |
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| Oppostie leaves; swollen leaf nodes;5 notched petals |
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| Flowers usually small, inconspicuous and green; plants often salt/drought tolerant |
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| Often red-pigmented; flowers subtended by persistent bracts. |
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| Ocrea; seeds triangular or flattened; stems often red-pigmented. Triangular fruit. |
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| Leaves usually have palmate venation; flowers 5-petaled; fruit often resembles a button. |
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| Cross-shaped flower with 4 sepals, 4 petals, and 4+2 stamens; fruit a silicle or silique; often have basal rosette of leaves. |
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| Large, diverse family; usually 5 sepals, 5 petals, numerous stamens; leaves often toothed and compound. |
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| Trifoliate or otherwise compound leaves, often with large stipules; roots are nodulated; flowers conspicuous (insect pollinated)and often yellow or pink. |
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| Leaves and stems contain milky, often poisonous, sap; leaves often opposite but may be alternate; fruit is usually 3-lobed. |
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| Sheathing leaf bases; leaves often compound and divided; umbel inflorescence; aromatic and often poisonous. |
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| Milky sap; opposite leaves; cyme or umbel inflorescence. |
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| Flowers have 5 sepals, petals, and stamens; fruits are berries or capsules |
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| Often twining herbs; funnel-shaped flowers; cotyledons may be deeply indented. |
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| Square stems; opposite leaves; bilabiate flowers; aromatic. |
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| Basal leaves with a spike inflorescence containing numerous crowded flowers; short but tough taproot. Flat on the ground |
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| Usually have conspicuous and snapdragon-like flowers; leaves alternate or opposite; stem round or square. |
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| Largest dicot family, head inflorescence with ray and/or disk flowers. |
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