PLANT FAMILY DESCRIPTIONS
Identify the plant family based on the descriptions in the question
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#1. Aromatic herbs, hollow furrowed stems, alt. compound lvs w/sheathing bases
Apiaceae (parsley family)
#2. Fruit a legume
Fabaceae (legume family)
#3. Our most deadly poisonous plants (hemlock, for example)
Apiaceae (carrot family)
#4. Fruit a silique or silicle (modified capsule)
Brassicaceae (mustard family)
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#5. Which family has the following flower formula?
Apiaceae (carrot family)
#6. Inflorescence a compound umbel
Apiaceae (parsley family)
#7. Flowers bilateral two-lipped, fused petals
Lamiaceae (mint family)
#8. Inflorescence a head that looks like a single flower
Asteraceae (aster family)
#9. Flowers bilateral papilionaceous "butterfly-like" separate petals
Fabaceae (legume family)
#10. Fruit is a "schizocarp" (splits into two 1-seeded halves)
Apiaceae (carrot family)
#11. Fruit is an achene, dispersal aided by pappus
Asteraceae (aster family)
#12. Fruit 4 nutlets
Lamiaceae (mint family)
#13. Lentil, peas, soy and other beans
Fabaceae (legume family)
#14. Flowers of 4 sepals, 4 petals, 6 stamens (4+2)
Brassicaceae (mustard family)
#15. Flowers with numerous stamens and carpels, hypanthium; leaves with stipules
Rosaceae (rose family)
#16. Flowers with numerous stamens and carpels, hypogynous; leaves without stipules
Ranunculaceae (buttercup family)
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#17. Which family has this flower formula?
Fabaceae (legume family)
#18. Flowers 3-merous with sepals and petals identical
Liliaceae (lily family)