Ranunculaceae

Buttercup family 

Many stamens and carpels

Herbs without stipules

Berberidaceae

Barberry family 

One carpel per flower

Often YELLOW inner bark

Anthers open by flaps 

Often woody

Caryophyllaceae 

Carnation family

Pink Family

Often swollen nodes, herbs with opposite leaves

Petals that are often notched at end

Chickweeds, fire pink, baby's breath

Cactaceae 

Columnar, barrel, pad growth forms

Stems are thick and photosynthetic

Leaves were reduced to spines

Euphorbiaceae  

Spurges, euphorbs

Many poisonous 

Unisexua flowers 

3 forkin' styles!

Some look like cacti but bleed milky sap

Violaceae 

Violets

Leaves have stipules

Flowers zygomorphic 

Lower petal with nectar spur at back

Cuplike style/stigma

Fabaceae (Leguminosae) 

Legumes

Beans, peas, chick-peas etc.

Nitrogen fixing bacter in roots

Often compound leaves

Group in Fabaceae 

actinomorphic

Filaments are showy

Group in Fabaceae

Zygomorphic

Group in Fabaceae 

Zygomorphic 

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Ulmaceae

Elm family ulmus 

Trees with alternate leaves with asymmetrical bases

Teeth on leaves 

Tissues often have crystals (cystolits)

Epidermal cells called lithocyst

Tepals 4-9

Beech, oak and chestnut family

Woody, simple leaves with stipules

Staminate flowers in catkins (only one kind of catkin)

Carpellate flowers with bracts

Betulaceae

Birch family 

Woody with leaves that are toothed

Both staminate and carpellate flowers and catkins

Fruits are nutlets or nuts

Musclewood, Alder, and Hop Hornbean 

Walnut and hickory family

Pinnately compound leaves 

Staminate flowers in catkins

Brassicaceae

Mustard family

Saw this a lot in Kentucky 

Herbs with mustard oils- cabbage, etc.

Flowers are 4 merous- separate petals

With tetradynamous stamens 4 long, 2 short

Cashew an poison ivy family

Woody plants with clear resin that dries black

Leaves of compound

Some cause dermatitis 

Allergic response 

Maple family 

Pinnately compound to simple leaves

Saponins in tissues

Fruits capsules