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Monocotyledoneae
MONOCOTS; MONOCOTYLEDONAE; ANGIOSPERMS; FLOWERING PLANTS; FLOWERS; FRUITS; SEEDS; VASCULAR PLANTS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA
Life   Plantae

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Lilium superbum, Turks-cap Lily
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Lilium superbum, Turks-cap Lily
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Overview Group of flowering plants (angiosperms) comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae.
Unlike the conifers (gymnosperms), the angiosperms have ovules enclosed for protection, in an ovary. Following successful fertilization, the ovules develop into seeds.

Phylogeny
Scientific Name -- Common Name
Plantae -- Green plants



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Allium tricoccum, Wild Leek
Photograph by John Pickering
Allium tricoccum, Wild Leek



Iris cristata, Dwarf Iris


Photograph by John Pickering


Iris cristata,
Dwarf Iris

Arisaema triphyllum, Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Photograph by John Pickering

Arisaema triphyllum, Jack-in-the-Pulpit



Geographic distribution
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    • Vascular Plants, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina & Tennessee
    • Flora, Onconee National Forest, Georgia


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Acknowledgements
This page written and compiled by Robert Magill of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, with Irina Kim & John Pickering of the University of Georgia, Athens.

We thank Cassie Lloyd for technical support in developing this page.

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