asterid dicot family

1. Family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (synset 111586681)
   is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   subtypes:

   • aster family, asteraceae, compositae, family asteraceae, family compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
   • ambrosiaceae, family ambrosiaceae - in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds
   • family rubiaceae, madder family, rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
   • caprifoliaceae, family caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family - shrubs and small trees and woody vines
   • dipsacaceae, family dipsacaceae - chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads
   • family polemoniaceae, phlox family, polemoniaceae - a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers
   • acanthaceae, acanthus family, family acanthaceae - widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
   • bignoniaceae, family bignoniaceae - trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
   • family gesneriaceae, gesneria family, gesneriaceae - large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales
   • family hydrophyllaceae, hydrophyllaceae, waterleaf family - perennial woodland herbs
   • family labiatae, family lamiaceae, labiatae, lamiaceae, mint family - a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary
   • family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae - a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
   • family solanaceae, potato family, solanaceae - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra
   • family verbenaceae, verbena family, verbenaceae, vervain family - family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees
   • avicenniaceae, family avicenniaceae - used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia
   • family valerianaceae, valerian family, valerianaceae - genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor
   belongs to: asteridae, subclass asteridae - a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder

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