family caryophyllaceae

1. Large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) (synset 111825073)
   is a type of: caryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
   member holonym:

   • caryophyllaceous plant - a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae
   • agrostemma, genus agrostemma - a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles
   • arenaria, genus arenaria - sandworts
   • cerastium, genus cerastium - mouse-eared chickweed
   • dianthus, genus dianthus - carnations and pinks
   • genus drypis - one species
   • genus gypsophila, gypsophila - Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers
   • genus hernaria, hernaria - low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves
   • genus illecebrum, illecebrum - one species: coral necklace
   • genus lychnis - genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly
   • genus minuartia, minuartia - mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts
   • genus moehringia, moehringia - low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers
   • genus paronychia, paronychia - low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
   • genus petrocoptis, petrocoptis - perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
   • genus sagina, sagina - small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions
   • genus saponaria, saponaria - mostly perennial Old World herbs
   • genus scleranthus, scleranthus - small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel
   • genus silene - large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly
   • genus spergula, spergula - small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry
   • genus spergularia, spergularia - chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry
   • genus stellaria, stellaria - common chickweed; stitchwort
   • genus vaccaria, vaccaria - cow-cockles
   belongs to: caryophyllales, chenopodiales, order caryophyllales, order-chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
   same as: carnation family, caryophyllaceae, pink family

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