Ohio Plants

Brassicaceae (Herbs with an acrid taste; flowers of 4 sepals, 4 petals, 6 stamens (4 2), and a silique or silicle.)

Lamiaceae (Herbs and shrubs with square stems, opposite leaves, a “minty” aroma, and 5-merous zygomorphic flowers with 2 or 4 stamens, and a deeply 4-lobed ovary with a gynobasic style; fruit 4 nutlets.)

Ranunculaceae (Herbs with compound leaves, sheathing leaf bases. Flowers with numerous stamens and carpels, typically actinomorphic, but zygomorphic in Delphinium and Acontium.)

Asteraceae (Herbs and shrubs with involucrate heads of small, 5-merous, sympetalous flowers. The calyx is represented by a pappus, a series of bristles, hairs or scales. Stamens 5, united by their anthers. Gynoecium bicarpellate, inferior, producing a single achene at maturity.)

Liliaceae (Perennial herbs from bulbs, rhizomes or corms. Leaves linear, sometimes sword-shaped and fibrous. Flowers with a conspicuous 6-parted petaloid perianth, 6 (3) stamens and a superior or inferior tricarpellate ovary. Fruit a capsule or berry.)

Rosaceae (Stipulate herbs, shrubs, & trees with 5-merous flowers, a hypanthium, many stamens.)

Apiaceae (Aromatic herbs with hollow, furrowed stems, compound leaves with sheathing leaf bases, 5-merous often white or yellow flowers in compound umbels, and fruit a schizocarp.)

Fabaceae (Herbs, shrubs, vines and trees with alternate, stipulate, compound leaves. Flowers [actinomorphic or] zygomorphic, 5-merous, unicarpellate; fruit a legume or loment.)