order Ranunculales

plant order - the order of plants

Magnoliidae, ranalian complex, subclass Magnoliidae - a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder

Annonaceae, custard-apple family, family Annonaceae - chiefly tropical trees or shrubs

barberry family, Berberidaceae, family Berberidaceae - shrubs or herbs

Calycanthaceae, calycanthus family, family Calycanthaceae, strawberry-shrub family - shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia

Ceratophyllaceae, family Ceratophyllaceae - coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts

Cercidiphyllaceae, family Cercidiphyllaceae - one genus

family Lardizabalaceae, lardizabala family, Lardizabalaceae - thick-stemmed lianas and some shrubs; some have edible fruit

family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, laurel family - a family of Lauraceae

family Magnoliaceae, magnolia family, Magnoliaceae - subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia

family Menispermaceae, Menispermaceae, moonseed family - herbaceous or woody climbers

family Myristicaceae, Myristicaceae, nutmeg family - family of aromatic tropical trees with arillate seeds

family Nymphaeaceae, Nymphaeaceae, water-lily family - dicot aquatic plants

family Paeoniaceae, Paeoniaceae, peony family - perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America

buttercup family, crowfoot family, family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae - a family of Ranunculaceae

family Winteraceae, Winteraceae, winter's bark family - small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae