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Plant classification is the placing of known plants into groups or categories to show some relationship. Scientific classification follows a system of rules that standardizes the results, and groups successive categories into a hierarchy .
List the seven levels of the plant classification system. Recognize the taxonomic diversity of common foods in your diet. Summarize the contribution of Linneaus to binomial nomenclature. Understand how the two-part scientific naming system works and its applications.
Classification of Plants. The scientific classification of modern land plants is under constant revision. Informally, land plants can be classified into the groups listed in Table below. Major divisions and types of modern land plants are organized in this table.
List the seven levels of the plant classification system. Recognize the taxonomic diversity of common foods in your diet. Summarize the contribution of Linneaus to binomial nomenclature.
Learn about the categories, or phylum, of the plant kingdom with examples from each.
Here is a chart from the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 141, Issue 4, April 2003, Pages 399–436 that shows plant order classification: Plant Families. The plant family is typically the highest classification that we refer to when discussing individual plants.
Classification of Plants. The scientific classification of modern land plants is under constant revision. Informally, land plants can be classified into the groups listed in Table below. Major divisions and types of modern land plants are organized in this table.
Plant Classification. Plants are formally divided into 12 phyla (plural for phylum), and these phyla are gathered into four groups (Figure below). These four groups are based on the evolutionary history of significant features in plants: Nonvascular plants evolved first.
Find the correct name and taxonomic classification of a species you are working on. Retrieve other names and publication information for that species. We work with collaborators around the globe to maintain authoritative resources of plant and fungal nomenclature and classification.
Chapter 1. Plant Taxonomy: A scientific approach to the plant world. Plant taxonomy: The scientific classification of plants. We live from plants and of plants. We eat them, we use them for construction, we weave clothes with their fibers and we ferment them to make beverages.