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• the bellflower family, containing 84 genera and about 2,400 species of mostly herbaceous (nonwoody) plants, many with showy, blue, bell-like flowers.

Use for: Bellflower

• A genus within the family Campanulaceae. Consists of annual, perennial, and biennial herbs. Collectively and commonly known as Bellflowers. Bellflowers have characteristically bell-shaped, usually blue flowers, and many are cultivated as garden ornamentals.

• The yam family. Plants are herbaceous or woody vines and shrubs, distributed throughout tropical and warm temperate regions. Members of the family have thick, sometimes woody roots or tuber-like underground stems and net-veined, often heart-shaped leaves that sometimes are lobed. The small green or white flowers of most species are borne in clusters in the leaf axils. The fruit is a winged capsule or a berry.

Use for: yams

• A genus of mostly tropical twining herbs (family Dioscoreaceae) including the yams and having net-veined leaves and small dioecious flowers

• A family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family. Ericaceae is made up mostly of shrubs and small trees, and its members are widely distributed, extending into the subarctic and along mountain chains through the tropics.

• Rhododendron is a genus of shrubs in the plant family Ericaceae

• Gentianaceae, the gentian family (order Gentianales) of flowering plants: annual and perennial herbs and, rarely, shrubs. Members of the family are native primarily to northern temperate areas of the world, though many are also found in tropical and subtropical regions. Flowers of certain members of these genera display some of the purest blues in the plant kingdom, and many are cultivated as garden ornamentals.

• the lily family of the flowering plants consisting of herbs and shrubs, native primarily to temperate and subtropical regions. Members of the family usually have six-segmented flowers and three-chambered capsular fruits; occasionally the fruits are berries. The leaves usually have parallel veins and are clustered at the base of the plant but may alternate along the stem or be arranged in whorls. Most species have an underground storage structure, such as a bulb.
• The family is important for its many garden ornamentals and houseplants, especially Erythronium, fritillary (Fritillaria), lily (Lilium), and tulip (Tulipa).

Use for: lilies, lily

• a genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the family Liliaceae, native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
• Many lilies are prized as ornamental plants, and they have been extensively hybridized.

Use for: Artocarpeae

• The mulberry family of the rose order (Rosales), with about 40 genera and some 1,000 species of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. - Artocarpeae is a tribe within the plant family Moraceae