Valerianaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Valerianaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls sympetalous, epigynous, regular or irregular, perfect or unisexual; cal-segments either inrolled at anthesis and later expanded and pappus-like, or much reduced or obsolete; cor mostly 5-lobed, often bilabiate, the tube often spurred or gibbous; stamens borne on the cor-tube, alternating with but fewer than the lobes, typically 3; pistil basically tricarpellate, one carpel fertile, the other 2 sterile and sometimes obsolete; style with a simple, entire or bilobed or more often trilobed stigma; ovule solitary, pendulous; fr dry, indehiscent; seeds with a large, straight, oily dicotyledonous embryo, without endosperm; opposite-lvd, exstipulate herbs with the fls in various sorts of basically determinate infls (but not in involucrate heads). 13/300.
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Common Names
The valerian family