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Interactive Keys: Emergent

White Flowers

    
1. Flower with 3 petals (Alismataceae)
      2. Flowers with 3 highly modified petals (Orchidaceae)
      3. Flowers with 4 petals (various families)
      4. Flowers with 4 or 5 highly modified lobes (Acanthaceae)
      5. Flowers with 5 petals or lobes (various families)
      6. Flowers with six petals or perianth segments (Liliaceae and Pontederiaceae)
      7. Flowers with petals in lobes of 4 to 6 (Polygonaceae)
      8. Flowers in dense, drooping spikes (
Saururaceae)
      9. Flowers in small, dense, button-like heads (Eriocaulaceae)
     10. Inflorescence highly modified into disk and ray flowers (Asteraceae)


Last update: 2/06/04
Comments to : Bruce Hoagland

bhoagland@ou.edu

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