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)

Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Sanguinaria (blood root)
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Hepatica

Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum
(used to be Anemonella, but changed to Thalictrum)
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus

Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Corydalis
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Clamatis
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Clematis
Ranunculales
Berberidaceae
Podophyllum (may-apple)