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Grain, fruit, and vegetables are basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia. People use plants for many purposes, such as building materials, ornaments, writing materials, and, in great variety, for medicines. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology .
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ ˌ æ n dʒ i ə ˈ s p ər m iː /), [5] [6] commonly called angiosperms.They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants.
Rosaceae ( / roʊˈzeɪsiː.iː, - si.aɪ /, -si.eɪ), [ 4][ 5] the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. [ 6][ 7][ 8] The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but some are evergreen. [ 9]
Plant morphology. Phytomorphology is the study of the physical form and external structure of plants. [ 1] This is usually considered distinct from plant anatomy, [ 1] which is the study of the internal structure of plants, especially at the microscopic level. [ 2] Plant morphology is useful in the visual identification of plants.
Evergreen. A silver fir shoot showing three successive years of retained leaves. Evergreen. In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year. [ 1] This contrasts with deciduous plants, which lose their foliage completely during the winter or dry season.
Definition. [edit] Plants are considered carnivorous if they have these five traits: [ 18 ] capture prey in traps. kill the captured prey. digest the captured prey. absorb nutrients from the killed and digested prey. use those nutrients to grow and develop. Other traits may include the attraction and retention of prey.
A pioneering system of plant taxonomy, Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, Leiden, 1735 This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents "taxonomic systems" used in plant classification.
Herbaceous plant. Lysimachia latifolia (broadleaf starflower) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ground layer of forests in western North America. Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. [ 1][ 2] This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials.