1. 17) Ranunculaceae
Caryophyllid Clade
24) Viscaceae
Rosid Clade
Asterid Clade
18) Papaveraceae
Eudicots (Tricolpates)

2. 19) Caryophyllaceae
20) Chenopodiaceae (incl. In Amaranthaceae)
21) Cactaceae
22) Droseraceae
23) Polygonaceae
Caryophyllids

3. 22) Droseraceae Sundew Family Insectivorous, glandular herbs
Often of acid bogs
Leaves usually adaxially circinate (appearing to unwind from a spiral on upper side)
Leaves either with sticky glands (the leaf slowly rolls up on an entrapped insect) or sensitive hairs that trigger a snap trap closing on an insect
Sepals, petals, and stamens usually 5; carpels 3, fused, basal or parietal placentation; fruit a capsule

4. Examples Droseraceae Drosera spp. (sundews)
Dionea muscipula (venus fly trap)

5. Dionaea muscipula

6. Drosera spp.

7. Drosera filiformus – Note the the adaxially circinate leaves

8. Drosera rotundifolia

9. Dionea muscipula – l.s. note basal placentation

10. 23) Polygonaceae Knotweed Family
Herbs (or shrub, tree, vine) with swollen nodes
Leaves with stipules fused into a tube sheathing the stem (nodal ocrea), or in their absence, flowers in involucrate heads (subtended by bracts)
Flowers usually small
Tepals 6, petaloid often in two series of 3; or sepals 3 and petals 3; or tepals 5 due to fusion of 2 tepals
Fruits and seeds polygonal in shape

11. Examples Polygonaceae
Rheum palmatum (rhubarb)
Polygonum
Polygonella
Rumex (dock, buckwheat)
Eriognum (wild buckwheat)

12. Polygonella articulata

13. Polygonella articulata

14. Polygonum bistorta

15. Polygonum aviculare

16. Polygonum cuspidatum

17. Polygonum punctatum

18. Polygonum spp.

19. Rumex patientia

20. Homocladium platycladium

21. 24) Viscaceae Christmas Mistletoe Family
Epiphytic parasite of tree branches; roots modified to form haustoria
Leaves usually opposite, leathery, veins parallel
Flowers small, perfect or imperfect; perianth of 3 or 4 tepals, inserted on a cup-shaped receptacle; stamens as many as perianth segments
Ovary inferior, fruit a viscous berry

22. Arceuthobium cyanocarpum – staminate and pistillate plants

23. Phoradendron leucarpon

24. Phoradendron leucarpon – staminate and pistillate flowers