Ranunculales Flashcards

Eudicots
Ranunculales
Berberidaceae
Podophyllum
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum (Used to be Anemonella)
Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Sanguinaria (bloodroot)

Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Aquilegia (wild columbine)
Ranunculales
Berberidaceae
Jeffersonia (twin-leaf)
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculales
Berberidaceae
Berberis (barberry)
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Caltha
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Anemone

Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Eschscholzia (mexican poppy)
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum
Mostly herbs, sometimes shrubs or vines; leaves alternate (spiral), simple to compound, with sheathing leaf bases; flowers usually actinomorphic and perfect; calyx of 5-8 petaloid sepals; corolla of few-many petals (rarely absent); stamens usually numerous; carpels usually numerous (apocarpous), ovaries superior, ovules usually many per carpel; fruit usually an aggregate of follicles, achenes, or berries.
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculales
Berberidaceae
Jeffersonia (twin-leaf)

Eudicots
Ranunculales
Berberidaceae
Jeffersonia (twin-leaf)
Families in Ranunculales:
7 families (but only 3 to learn)
- Berberidaceae
- Papaveraceae
- Ranunculaceae

Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Anemone
Ranunculales
Ranunulaceae
Hepatica
Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Papaver (poppy)

Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Dicentra (Dutchman’s breeches)
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Aquilegia (columbine)
Annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees; leaves alternate (spiral) to subopposite, usually lobed to divided or dissected, exstipu- late; flowers actinomorphic, zygomorphic, or biradial; calyx of 2 or 3 caducous sepals; corolla of 2+2 or 3+3 petals, the outer petals sometimes with a spur or sac; stamens numerous; carpels 2-many (syncarpous) ovary superior, ovules 1-many per carpel; fruit usually a capsule.
Papaveraceae
Perennial trees, shrubs or herbs, often spiny; leaves alternate (spiral) or rarely opposite, simple or compound (pinnate or ternate); flowers actinomorphic; perianth 6-7-seriate with 3 parts per whorl, the outer 2 whorls sepaloid, the inner 4-5 petaloid, innermost 2- 3 nectiferous; stamens 6, anthers typically valvular; carpel 1, ovary superior, ovules many per ovary; fruit typically a berry.
Berberidaceae

Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Delphinium (larkspur)


