Flowering Plants: Basswoods to Spurges (The Illustrated Flora of Illinois)

This is the fourth volume in The Illustrated Flora of Illinois devoted to dicotyledons, or dicot plants. Dicots are the greatest group of flowering plants, exceeding the monocotyle­dons, or monocots. Dicots produce a pair of seed leaves during germination while monocots produce only a single seed leaf. This volume contains four orders and ten families of dicots. The orders included in this volume are Malvales, Urticales, Rhamnales, and Euphorbiales. Within the Malvales are the families Tiliaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Mal­vaceae. The families Ulmaceae, Moraceae, and Urticaceae comprise the Urticales. Rhamnaceae and Elaeagnaceae make up the Rhamnales. The Euphorbiales include only the Thymelaeceae and the Euphorbiaceae. Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC 4-1982 Flowering Plants: Basswoods to Spurges Robert H. Mohlenbrock Recommended Citation Cover Book Title Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Foreword County Map of Illinois Introduction Descriptions and Illustrations Tiliaceae - Basswood Family Sterculiaceae - Chocolate Family Malvaceae - Mallow Family Ulmaceae - Elm Family Moraceae - Mulberry Family Urticaceae - Nettle Family Rhamnaceae - Buckhorn Family Elaeagnaceae - Oleaster Family Thymelaeaceae - Mezereum family Euphorbiaceae - Spurge Family Species Excluded Summary of the Taxa Treated in This Volume Glossary Literature Cited Index of Plant Names Back Cover