Nature In Focus

Plant Families

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• “Doubtless botany has its value; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them; they are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we begin to dissect and botanize them.”

  —Henry Norman Hudson
  (1814-1886)

  The plant families are arranged alphabetically. Since taxonomists regularly reclassify and rename species to accomodate the latest science, many species and family names become obsolete. These obsolete names are known as synonyms. Plant families followed by an asterisk (*) denote synomyms which are included for your convenience.

  The Latin names follow the nomenclature used in The Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

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