Arid House - Catalog of non-cactus A-Z (new sorting)
The gallery is sorted by caption, with caption first lines giving the family, followed by the binomial taxon (genus species), and second lines giving the year the shot was taken and a running image index.
A word of warning about my plant identifications, and plant taxonomy. I start with the name plaques or labels provided by the institution that owns the real plants. I proceed from there to do research on the internet, and possibly in printed reference books. The information on these tags is not always accurate. Misspellings occur, for example. Furthermore, plant taxonomy is in a state of flux. Genera get renamed, moved into and out of various families, clumped into a host of taxonomic sub-units. I'll try to provide the most current family, genus, and species names I can find, calling attention to instances where the info of the tags I show is clearly wrong or out of date. I welcome corrections by viewers who are more knowledgeable than I.
01: Problematic taxon_001 desert lily
2011M 06
Unlabeled desert lily 06
From the Wikipedia article on the Liliaceae family:
The lily family was formerly a paraphyletic "catch-all" group that included a great number of genera now included in other families, and some in other orders, including Agavaceae, Alliaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae, Asphodelaceae, Hyacinthaceae, Melanthiaceae, Nartheciaceae, Ruscaceae, Smilacaceae , Tecophilaeaceae, Themidaceae, Tofieldiaceae, and Uvulariaceae, and members of the monocot orders Asparagales, Dioscoreales, and Alismatales. Smilacaceae appears to be the family most closely related to Liliaceae.
So I won't even attempt to guess a taxonomic family for this plant!
Arid House of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory,
Ann Arbor, Michigan,
Taken March 22, 2011
Matthaei Botanical GardensMarch2011plantsdesert plantssucculentaloeagavedryhotxericarid
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