#order_Caryophyllales__Caryophyllales__Chenopodiales__order-Chenopodiales  corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
  supertype:  #plant_order__plantorder  the order of plants
  member of:  #subclass_Caryophyllidae
  member:  #family_Caryophyllaceae__Caryophyllaceae__carnation_family__carnationfamily__pink_family  large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
     member:  #caryophyllaceous_plant  a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae
     member:  #genus_Agrostemma__Agrostemma  a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles
        member:  #corn_cockle__corn_campion__crown-of-the-field__Agrostemma_githago  European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
     member:  #Arenaria__genus_Arenaria  sandworts
        member:  #sandwort  low-growing chiefly perennial plants usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens
     member:  #genus_Cerastium__Cerastium  mouse-eared chickweed
        member:  #mouse-ear_chickweed__mouseearchickweed__mouse_eared_chickweed__mouseearedchickweed__mouse_ear__mouseear__clammy_chickweed__chickweed  any of various plants related to the common chickweed
     member:  #genus_Dianthus__Dianthus  carnations and pinks
        member:  #garden_pink__pink  any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
     member:  #genus_Drypis  1 species
        member:  #drypis  spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers
     member:  #genus_Gypsophila__Gypsophila  Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers
        member:  #baby's_breath__babies'-breath__babies'breath__Gypsophila_paniculata  tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers
     member:  #genus_Hernaria__Hernaria  low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves
        member:  #rupturewort__Hernaria_glabra  common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures
     member:  #genus_Illecebrum__Illecebrum  1 species: coral necklace
        member:  #coral_necklace__coralnecklace__Illecebrum_verticullatum  glabrous annual with slender taproot and clusters of white flowers; western Europe especially western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas
     member:  #genus_Lychnis  genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly
        member:  #lychnis__lychni__catchfly  mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
     member:  #genus_Minuartia__Minuartia  mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts
     member:  #genus_Moehringia__Moehringia  low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having 4- rather than 5-petaled flowers
        member:  #Moehringia_lateriflora__sandwort  low-growing herb having clusters of small white-flowers 4-petaled flowers
        member:  #Moehringia_mucosa__sandwort  loosely matted plant with mosslike foliage studded with tiny starry 4-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
     member:  #genus_Paronychia__Paronychia  low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
        member:  #whitlowwort  any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail)
     member:  #genus_Petrocoptis__Petrocoptis  perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
     member:  #genus_Sagina__Sagina  small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions
        member:  #pearlwort__pearlweed  any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls
     member:  #genus_Saponaria__Saponaria  mostly perennial Old World herbs
        member:  #soapwort__hedge_pink__hedgepink__bouncing_Bet__bouncing_Bess__Saponaria_officinalis  plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised
     member:  #genus_Scleranthus__Scleranthus  small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel
        member:  #knawel__knawe__Scleranthus_annuus  widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers
     member:  #genus_Silene  large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly
        member:  #silene__campion__catchfly  any plant of the genus Silene
        member:  #moss_campion__Silene_acaulis  tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America
        member:  #wild_pink__Silene_caroliniana  perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters
        member:  #red_campion__red_bird's_eye__Silene_dioica__Lychnis_dioica  biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
        member:  #white_campion__whitecampion__evening_lychnis__white_cockle__whitecockle__bladdercampion__Silene_latifolia__Lychnis_alba  bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
        member:  #fire_pink__Silene_virginica  perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals
     member:  #genus_Spergula__Spergula  small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry
        member:  #corn_spurry__corn_spurrey__Spergula_arvensis  small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers
     member:  #genus_Spergularia__Spergularia  chiefly maritimes Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry
        member:  #sand_spurry__sea_spurry__seaspurry__Spergularia_rubra  prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
     member:  #genus_Stellaria__Stellaria  common chickweed; stitchwort
        member:  #chickweed  any of various plants of the genus Stellaria
     member:  #genus_Vaccaria__Vaccaria  cow-cockles
        member:  #cowherb__cow_cockle__cowcockle__Vaccaria_hispanica__Vaccaria_pyramidata__Saponaria_vaccaria  European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort
  member:  #family_Aizoaceae__Aizoaceae__Tetragoniaceae__family_Tetragoniaceae__carpetweed_family  succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds
     member:  #genus_Carpobrotus__Carpobrotus  a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus
        member:  #Hottentot_fig__Hottentot's_fig__sour_fig__Carpobrotus_edulis__Mesembryanthemum_edule  low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
     member:  #genus_Dorotheanthus__Dorotheanthus  a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus
        member:  #livingstone_daisy__livingstonedaisy__Dorotheanthus_bellidiformis  low-growing showy succulent annual of South Africa having white or pink or red or orange flowers and spatulate leaves covered in papillae that resemble small crystals
     member:  #genus_Lithops  genus of stemless South African succulents
        member:  #lithops__living_stone__stoneface__stoneplant__stone_life_face__flowering_stone  any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones
     member:  #genus_Mesembryanthemum__Mesembryanthemum  South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight
        member:  #fig_marigold__figmarigold__pebbleplant  any of several South African plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum cultivated for showy pink or white flowers
     member:  #genus_Molluga__Molluga  carpetweeds
        member:  #carpetweed__Indian_chickweed__Molluga_verticillata  annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America
     member:  #genus_Pleiospilos__Pleiospilos  perennial succulents of South Africa
        member:  #living_granite__living_rock__stone_mimicry_plant__stonemimicryplant  highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with gray-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
     member:  #genus_Tetragonia__Tetragonia  New Zealand spinach
        member:  #New_Zealand_spinach__Tetragonia_tetragonioides__Tetragonia_expansa  coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves
  member:  #family_Amaranthaceae__Amaranthaceae__amaranth_family  cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
     member:  #genus_Amaranthus__Amaranthus  large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs
        member:  #amaranth  any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food
        member:  #thorny_amaranth__Amaranthus_spinosus  erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes
     member:  #genus_Alternanthera__Alternanthera  genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera
        member:  #alligator_weed__alligatorweed__alligatorgras__Alternanthera_philoxeroides  prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
     member:  #genus_Celosia__Celosia  annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
        member:  #red_fox__Celosia_argentea  weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers
     member:  #genus_Froelichia__Froelichia  genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed
        member:  #cottonweed  any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers
     member:  #genus_Gomphrena__Gomphrena  genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia
        member:  #globe_amaranth__globeamaranth__bachelor's_button__Gomphrena_globosa  tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
     member:  #genus_Iresine__Iresine  genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs
        member:  #bloodleaf  any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage
     member:  #genus_Telanthera__Telanthera  used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera
  member:  #family_Batidaceae__Batidaceae__saltwort_family  family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts
     member:  #genus_Batis__Batis  small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs
        member:  #Batis_maritima__saltwort  low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves
  member:  #family_Chenopodiaceae__Chenopodiaceae__goosefoot_family__goosefootfamily  includes spinach and beets
     member:  #genus_Chenopodium__Chenopodium  goosefoot; pigweed
        member:  #goosefoot  any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers
     member:  #genus_Atriplex__Atriplex  orach; saltbush
        member:  #orach__orache  any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes
        member:  #saltbush  any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil
     member:  #genus_Bassia__Bassia__Kochia__genus_Kochia  summer cypress
        member:  #summer_cypress__burning_bush__burningbush__firebush__belvedere__Bassia_scoparia__Kochia_scoparia  densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn
     member:  #genus_Cycloloma__Cycloloma  a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae
        member:  #winged_pigweed__tumbleweed__Cycloloma_atriplicifolium  bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
     member:  #genus_Halogeton  a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae
        member:  #halogeton__Halogeton_glomeratus  a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content
        member:  #Halogeton_souda__barilla  Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate
     member:  #genus_Salicornia__Salicornia  glassworts
        member:  #samphire__glasswort__Salicornia_europaea  fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass
     member:  #genus_Salsola__Salsola  chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts
     member:  #genus_Sarcobatus__Sarcobatus  1 species: greasewood
        member:  #black_greasewood__blackgreasewood__greasewood__Sarcobatus_vermiculatus  low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America
     member:  #genus_Spinacia__Spinacia  spinach
        member:  #prickly-seeded_spinach__spinach__spinachplant__Spinacia_oleracea  southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
  member:  #family_Nyctaginaceae__Nyctaginaceae__Allioniaceae__family_Allioniaceae__four-o'clock_family  a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
     member:  #genus_Nyctaginia__Nyctaginia  a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species
        member:  #scarlet_musk_flower__Nyctaginia_capitata  viscid branched perennial of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having tuberous roots and deep red flowers
     member:  #genus_Abronia__Abronia  genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers
        member:  #sand_verbena  any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena
     member:  #genus_Allionia__Allionia  small genus of chiefly American herbs
        member:  #trailing_four_o'clock__trailing_windmills__Allionia_incarnata  trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico
     member:  #genus_Bougainvillea__Bougainvillaea__genus_Bougainvillaea  ornamental tropical woody vines
        member:  #bougainvillea  any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions
     member:  #genus_Mirabilis__Mirabilis  four o'clocks
        member:  #umbrellawort  a plant of the genus Mirabilis
        member:  #four_o'clock  any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon
        member:  #California_four_o'clock__Mirabilis_laevis__Mirabilis_californica  California four o'clock with purple-red flowers
     member:  #genus_Pisonia__Pisonia  genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America
        member:  #cockspur__Pisonia_aculeata  small spiny West Indian tree
  member:  #family_Phytolaccaceae__Phytolaccaceae__pokeweed_family  chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca; Agdestis; Ercilla; Rivina; Trichostigma
     member:  #genus_Phytolacca__Phytolacca  type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed
        member:  #pokeweed  perennial of the genus Phytolacca
     member:  #genus_Agdestis__Agdestis  a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates
     member:  #genus_Ercilla__Ercilla  a genus of evergreen climbers
     member:  #genus_Rivina__Rivina  small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America
        member:  #bloodberry__blood_berry__bloodberry__rougeberry__rouge_plant__rougeplant__Rivina_humilis  bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas
     member:  #genus_Trichostigma__Trichostigma  a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America
  member:  #family_Portulacaceae__Portulacaceae__purslane_family  family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas
     member:  #genus_Portulaca  genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs
        member:  #portulaca  a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers
        member:  #common_purslane__pussley__pusly__verdolagas__Portulaca_oleracea  weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
     member:  #genus_Calandrinia__Calandrinia  large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers
        member:  #rock_purslane  a plant of the genus Calandrinia
        member:  #red_maids__redmaid__redmaid__calandriniaciliata  succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States
     member:  #genus_Claytonia__Claytonia  genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes
        member:  #Carolina_spring_beauty__Claytonia_caroliniana  similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America
        member:  #spring_beauty__Clatonia_lanceolata  small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
        member:  #Virginia_spring_beauty__Claytonia_virginica  small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
     member:  #genus_Lewisia__Lewisia  genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
        member:  #siskiyou_lewisia__Lewisia_cotyledon  evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
        member:  #bitterroot__Lewisia_rediviva  showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
     member:  #genus_Montia__Montia  small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia
        member:  #Indian_lettuce  a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves
     member:  #genus_Spraguea__Spraguea  small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes
        member:  #pussy-paw__pussypaw__pussy-paws__pussy's-paw__pussy'spaw__Spraguea_umbellatum__Calyptridium_umbellatum  pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America
     member:  #genus_Talinum__Talinum  genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
        member:  #flame_flower__flameflower__talinumaurantiacum  plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
        member:  #narrow-leaved_flame_flower__Talinum_augustissimum  similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States
        member:  #pigmy_talinum__pigmytalinum__Talinum_brevifolium  low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
        member:  #rock_pink__Talinum_calycinum  pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
        member:  #spiny_talinum__spinytalinum__Talinum_spinescens  low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States

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