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• a small genus of "warbler" in the family Cettiidae, formerly included in the Sylviidae.

Use for: poppy, poppies

• genus of herbaceous plants of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), mostly native to south-central Asia. Several species are grown as highly prized ornamentals for their attractive flowers.

• A family of flowering plants, ranging from small herbaceous plants to shrubs.
• The family Montiaceae was newly adopted in the APG III system and includes members of the Caryophyllales formerly listed in Portulacaceae

• a large genus of herbs (family Montiaceae) of western North America with linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers.

• A plant genus within the Moraceae family. Made up of mainly tropical trees, shrubs, and woody vines of the mulberry family that have deciduous or evergreen leaves, often begin life as epiphytes, and include some (such as F. benjamina) grown as houseplants and others (such as F. carica) cultivated for their oblong or pear-shaped edible syconium fruit.

• Family of plants, species are often huge herbs growing in humid environments. It is an ancient family, with fossils of Gunnera plants that are some 95 million years old. Most Gunnera species grow in rather damp, temperate conditions.

• A genus of European and Asiatic annual plants (family Polygonaceae) having the achene much exceeding the perianth but otherwise resembling members of the genus Polygonum.

• a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. Species of Oxyria are perennial herbaceous plants or weakly shrubby.

Use for: currency

• a large family of plants distinguished by colorless acrid juice, usually alternate leaves, and regular or irregular polypetalous or apetalous flowers with hypogynous stamens
• a large family of flowering plants, mostly herbaceous annuals or perennials, but some are woody climbers or shrubs. Commonly called the buttercup family