Carnegiea gigantea, Giant Saguaro

Southwest Desert Flora

Home to the plants of the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave Deserts

Cirsium ochrocentrum, Yellowspine Thistle

Family, common name family

The Name family is a small/large etc family with approximately genera and accepted species names. Some authorities further divide the family into two families with several genera split off and placed in the family. The family includes several important ?? such as ? and ?.

Family species occur world-wide in distribution and are found in ? regions. Most species are found in ? zones.

Family Characteristics:

Important species:

In North America, according to the USDA Plants Database, there are genera and about species in the ? family. Common species found in the United States include the following:

genus: species in North America, shrubs.

genus: species in North America, shrubs.

genus: species in North America, shrubs or trees. Species also native to Mexico, Central America, South America and east Asia.

Date Family Profile Completed: 08/12/2019 References:
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service on-line database – ITIS search [accessed 08/08/2019]
https://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=Hydrangeaceae&display=31
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database accessed 08/08/2019].
https://web.archive.org/web/20041118042050/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/gnlist.pl?558
The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 08/08/2019).
http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Hydrangeaceae/
Wikipedia contributors. "Hydrangeaceae." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 14 Jun. 2019. Web. 8 Aug. 2019.
Craig C. FreemanFNA | Family List | FNA Vol. 12 | 26. Hydrangeaceae Dumortier, Hydrangea Family Hydrangea Family
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10425
Hufford L. (2004) Hydrangeaceae. In: Kubitzki K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8_22#citeas
Amy Tikkanen, 2013, 2009, John P. Rafferty, 2009, Shiveta Singh, 2009, 2008, The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 19 Jun. 2016
https://www.britannica.com/plant/hydrangea