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Holosteum

Holosteum umbellatum

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Caryophyllaceae
Genus:	Holosteum

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Holosteum is a genus of plants in the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae) with 3 or 4 species native from southern Europe through central and south western Asia and in Africa. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its Caryophyllales is an order of Flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations Amaranths Ice plants and most The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of Flowering plants The species are Dicotyledons A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of Flowering plants The species are Dicotyledons They are herbs with an annual life span, some growing as winter annuals. Botanically an annual plant is a Plant that usually germinates, Flowers and dies in one Year. They have slender roots and thin stems that are upright or ascending. ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN. A stem is one of two main structural axes of a Vascular plant. The genus name was given by Linnaeus, and named because of the sprawling nature of the plants: [Greek holos, meaning whole or all, and osteon, meaning bone, because of the frailty of the plant.

Flowers are bisexual but sometimes also unisexual and pistillate. Flowers are hypogynous, have 5 sepals that are distinct and green in color and lanceolate to ovate in shape and 2. In the Flowering plants an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or Gynoecium. A sepal (from Latin separatus "separate" + petalum "petal" is a part of the flower of Angiosperms or flower plants 5-4. 5 mm long. Typically with no stipules. In Botany, stipule ( Latin stipula: straw stalk is a term coined by Linnaeus The flowers have 5 petals that are white to soft pink in color and are clawed. Plants typically are found as small inconspicuous early spring blooming plants with short life spans.

Common names for the plants in this genus include jagged chickweed and ying gu cao.

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