Loosestrife family, herbs, shrubs to trees with flaky bark. Leaf entire and often opposite, lacks punctate gland dots. Flower has prominent hypanthium, calyx lobes valvate from hypanthial apex, petals crumpled in bud, stamens often numerous and of different length. Fruit usually capsule.

Perennial herbs; geophytes (tubes or rhizomes); flowers large, tepals 3 + 3, often spotted; anthers distinct and free, 3 + 3; style is solitary, 3 stigmas, 3 carpels (syncarpous), 3 locules; ovary superior; fruit capsule or berry.

Dutchman’s pipe family, often climbing plants, has enlarged petaloid calyx (3 sepals fused together), corolla reduced or absent, stamen fused and forms gynostemium (stamen and gynoecium fused together). Gynoecium is syncarpous, with 3-6 carpels, ovary often inferior, fruit usually capsule with many seeds.

Milkweed family, with latex, 5-merous perianth/androecium, gynoecium usually with 2 carpels. Pollens fused to form pollinia.

Leaf opposite, sometimes compound, leaf margin often toothed. Inflorescence flat-topped, cymose, has numerous small flowers.

coffee family. Leaf simple, entire, usually opposite or decussate, connate stipules (to protect leaves), colleters (secretary hairs) adaxial to stipules, flowers often small and cluster, calyx and corolla 4 or 5 united, ovary inferior.

leaf opposite, simple, zygomorphic flowers, usually bilabiate flower (like mint flowers), stamens often 2 or 4 (rarely 5), capsule explosively dehiscent.

Stamen numerous, spirally arranged perianth parts, apocarpous gynoecium.

Taken at Mobot Feb 9 2019

also called four o’clock family because some species open flowers at night. Shrubs or annual herbs; calyx united (connate) and petal-like (petaloid), with induplicate-valvate or contorted lobes; petals (corolla) absent; some species have C4 photosynthesis

Bougainvillea

Taken on Sept 2nd, 2018, Saint Louis, MO.