10 Plant Families To Learn Apiaceae (The Carrot Family) Also known as umbellifers, plants in this family include carrot, parsnip, celery, parsley, angelica, anise, caraway, coriander, cumin, dill ...

Charles Darwin's frustration with the evolutionary origin of flowering plants--he called it "an abominable mystery"--stood for more than a century, as hypotheses, like flowers, bloomed and faded.

The family tree that has now been created covers around 60 % of the known flowering plant genera. It is based on a gigantic amount of data that would take a single computer 18 years to process.

Plums are a kind of stone fruit that belong to the rose (Rosaceae) family. This plant family includes nearly 5,000 species including flowers, trees and shrubs, plus foods like raspberries, pears ...

Just as with trees, wind-pollinated plants are generally more likely to cause allergy symptoms. It seems counterintuitive but plants like chrysanthemum (also a member of the aster family) and baby ...

Over 38 species of butterflies and moths use the tree as a host plant. A member of the laurel family, the buds, twigs, leaves and roots of the sassafras tree have a lemony, spicy fragrance when ...