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Use for: Flowering plants

• flowering plants, the largest and most diverse group within the kingdom Plantae. Angiosperms represent approximately 80 percent of all the known green plants now living.
• The angiosperms are vascular seed plants in which the ovule (egg) is fertilized and develops into a seed in an enclosed hollow ovary.

Use for: fauna

• any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (such as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation
• any animal that is not a human being

• a genus of singing birds (family Motacillidae) comprising the typical pipits

Use for: Umbelliferae

• A large family of plants. The plants are often fragrant or aromatic, that have small flowers borne in umbels and include numerous economically important plants (as the carrot, anise, caraway, dill, and parsley)Plants distributed throughout a wide variety of habitats, principally in the north temperate regions of the world. A number of species are economically important as leaf and root vegetables, herbs and spices, and garden ornamentals. Commonly known as the parsley family.

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• A family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales. The family has a wide, but scattered, distribution throughout the tropics and temperate zones; for example, Xanthorrhoea is endemic to Australia, while the Aloes are unique to Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Many of the family's genera are cultivated as ornamentals, with some being highly collectible and sought-after, while a few are grown commercially for cut flowers.

• A large family comprising of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees distributed throughout the world. Known as the aster, daisy, or composite family,
• Asteraceae is one of the largest plant families, second only to Orchidaceae.
• Paleobotanists suggest that the first members of this family may have evolved in Argentina some 50 million years ago, based on the discovery of well-preserved fossils that date to the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago).
• Asteraceae is important primarily for its many garden ornamentals, such as ageratums, asters, chrysanthemums, cosmos, dahlias, marigolds (Tagetes), and zinnias.

Use for: bamboo

• Bamboo. Subfamily of tall treelike grasses of the family Poaceae, comprising more than 115 genera and 1,400 species. Bamboos are distributed in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, with the heaviest concentration and largest number of species in East and Southeast Asia and on islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. A few species of the genus Arundinaria are native to the southern United States, where they form dense canebrakes along riverbanks and in marshy areas.