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Flowering Plant Families
Flowering plants are major components of terrestrial ecosystems, the basis of most
food chains, and key to the development of all human societies.. But with over
300,000 named extant species, identifying which plants are found in which communities can be challenging.
Botanists often start the process of identifying a plant by figuring out what
taxonomic family it belongs to.
The purpose of this lab is to familiarize you with a few families of flowering plants and the characteristics that define them. We will focus on 8 families that are particularly important to human agriculture
Activities
Meet the Families
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