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Dichelostemma capitatum
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Themidaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Asparagales is an order of Flowering plants The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly Richard Anthony Salisbury FRS ( May 2, 1761 - 1829 was a British Botanist. A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN and if the plant is a Cultigen, the The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Such a family is recognised by only few taxonomists.
The APG II system does not recognize this family as such, but allows it to be segregated from the family Asparagaceae, as an optional segregate. Asparagaceae is the Botanical name of a family of Flowering plants. This represents a change from the APG system, of 1998, which firmly did accept this family. Placement of this family is in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots. Asparagales is an order of Flowering plants The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of Flowering plants (angiosperms that are traditionally recognised the other being Dicotyledons
As circumscribed by the APG it would consist of about a dozen genera in North America: these can be found in the Flora of North America, treated as members of Liliaceae. The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of Monocotyledons in the order Liliales.