| Classification |
| Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order Type: Eudicots-Basal Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Primulaceae
Family Common Name: Primrose Family
Genera: Dodecatheon, Lysimachia, Primula |
Defining Features: Some species
with secretory cavities, storing red or yellow resinous materials.
Defining Morphology: Floral
Features: Inflorescences are often highly modified, indeterminate, axillary,
terminal or reduced to a solitary flower. Flowers are bisexual, actinomorphic,
and often heterostyled. Flowers are often with connate sepals and petals.
Ovaries are superior or half-inferior with free-central placentation. Fruit
and Seed Features: Dicotyledon. Fruit a capsule, opening by circumscissle
or valves. Seeds are angular. Vegetative Features: Habit as rosette herbs.
Leaves simple, opposite, whorled, or basal. Leaves have entire to serrate
and lobed margins.
Distribution: Mostly temperate
and cold regions of northern hemisphere and a few in tropical regions.
Economic Use: As cultivated
garden and indoor ornamentals.
Number of Genera Globally:
20
Number of Species Globally: 1,000
