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The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of monocotyledon
Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of flowering plants that are traditionally recognised, the other being dicotyledons or dicots....
s in the order Liliales
Liliales

Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another....
. Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins but with several having net venation (e.g., Cardiocrinum, Clintonia, Medeola, Prosartes, Scoliopus, Tricyrtis), and flower arranged in threes. Several have bulbs, while others have rhizomes. Shade-dwelling genera usually have broad, net-veined leaves, fleshy fruits with animal-dispersed seeds, rhizomes, and small, inconspicuous flowers; genera native to sunny habitats usually have narrow, parallel-veined leaves, capsular fruits with wind-dispersed seeds, bulbs, and large, visually conspicuous flowers.

Many plants in the Liliaceae are important ornamental plant
Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are typically grown in the flower garden or as house plants. Most commonly they are grown for the display of their flowers. Other common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, Plant stem and bark....
s, widely grown for their attractive flowers.






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The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of monocotyledon
Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of flowering plants that are traditionally recognised, the other being dicotyledons or dicots....
s in the order Liliales
Liliales

Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another....
. Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins but with several having net venation (e.g., Cardiocrinum, Clintonia, Medeola, Prosartes, Scoliopus, Tricyrtis), and flower arranged in threes. Several have bulbs, while others have rhizomes. Shade-dwelling genera usually have broad, net-veined leaves, fleshy fruits with animal-dispersed seeds, rhizomes, and small, inconspicuous flowers; genera native to sunny habitats usually have narrow, parallel-veined leaves, capsular fruits with wind-dispersed seeds, bulbs, and large, visually conspicuous flowers.

Many plants in the Liliaceae are important ornamental plant
Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are typically grown in the flower garden or as house plants. Most commonly they are grown for the display of their flowers. Other common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, Plant stem and bark....
s, widely grown for their attractive flowers. Many species are poison
Poison

In the context of biology, poisons are Chemical substance that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism....
ous if eaten and may cause serious complications, such as renal failure, in household pets, especially cats. A floral pattern said to be based on a lily or lily-like flower is used in heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
; see Fleur-de-lis
Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis is a stylized design of either an Iris or a Lilium that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynasty, artistic, emblematic and symbolic", especially in heraldry....
.

The lily family was formerly a paraphyletic
Paraphyly

In phylogenetics, a group of organisms is said to be paraphyletic if the group contains its most recent common ancestor Common descent but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor....
 "catch-all" group that included a great number of genera now included in other families, and some in other orders, including Agavaceae
Agavaceae

Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Yucca brevifolia. The family includes about 550-600 species in around 18 genus, and is widespread in the tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of the world....
, Alliaceae
Alliaceae

Alliaceae is a Family of herbaceous perennial plant flowering plants. They are monocots, part of Order Asparagales. The family has been widely but not universally recognised; in the past, the plants involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae, and still are by some botanists....
, Amaryllidaceae
Amaryllidaceae

Amaryllidaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Plants in this family may be described as 'amaryllid'. The plants are herbaceous perennial plants that often grow from bulbs, often with showy flowers....
, Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae

Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by quite a few taxonomists, but hardly universally: often the plants involved are treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae....
, Asphodelaceae
Asphodelaceae

Asphodelaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Not all taxonomists recognize Asphodelaceae as a family and the wiktionary:circumscription of the family has varied over time....
, Hyacinthaceae
Hyacinthaceae

Hyacinthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The plants are herbaceous perennials that grow from bulbs, and include several popular spring-blooming garden plants, including Hyacinth , grape hyacinth , Hyacinthoides and Scilla ....
, Melanthiaceae
Melanthiaceae

Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
, Nartheciaceae
Nartheciaceae

Nartheciaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has only rarely been recognized by list of systems of plant taxonomy of plant taxonomy....
, Ruscaceae
Ruscaceae

Ruscaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales that includes several genera previously included in the Liliaceae, for example in the Cronquist system....
, Smilacaceae
Smilacaceae

Smilacaceae, the greenbrier family, is a family of flowering plants. Up to some decades ago the genera now included in family Smilacaceae were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, but for the past twenty to thirty years most botanists have accepted Smilacaceae as a distinct family....
 , Tecophilaeaceae
Tecophilaeaceae

Tecophilaeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize this family and places it in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots....
, Themidaceae
Themidaceae

Themidaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family is recognised by only few taxonomists.The APG II system does not recognize this family as such, but allows it to be segregated from the family Asparagaceae, as an optional segregate....
, Tofieldiaceae
Tofieldiaceae

Tofieldiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has first been recognized only recently.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots....
, and Uvulariaceae
Uvulariaceae

Uvulariaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. While seldom recognised, the family is accepted by the Dahlgren system, which places it in order Liliales, superorder Lilianae, and the subclass Liliidae [=monocotyledons] of class Magnoliopsida [=angiosperms]....
, and members of the monocot orders Asparagales, Dioscoreales, and Alismatales. Smilacaceae
Smilacaceae

Smilacaceae, the greenbrier family, is a family of flowering plants. Up to some decades ago the genera now included in family Smilacaceae were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, but for the past twenty to thirty years most botanists have accepted Smilacaceae as a distinct family....
 appears to be the family most closely related to Liliaceae
Liliaceae

The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of monocotyledons in the order Liliales. Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins but with several having net venation , and flower arranged in threes....
.

The genus Calochortus
Calochortus

Calochortus is a genus of bulbous plants that includes 70 species from British Columbia to Guatemala and east to Nebraska. Calochortus is the most widely dispersed genus of Liliaceae on the North American Pacific coast....
, which includes the sego and mariposa lilies, and its allied genera are separated into a separate family Calochortaceae
Calochortaceae

Calochortaceae is a family of flowering plants. It is recognised by only a few list of systems of plant taxonomy, including the Dahlgren system, which placed it in the order Liliales in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae [=monocotyledons] of class Magnoliopsida [=angiosperms]....
 in some schemes, while others maintain them as a subfamily of Liliaceae, the Calochortoideae.

It is estimated that the family evolved 58 million years ago during the Early Paleogene
Paleogene

The Paleogene is a geologic period that began 65.5 ? 0.3 and ended 23.03 ? 0.05 million years ago and comprises the first part of the Cenozoic era....
.

Genera

The list below includes genera that have historically been classified in family Liliaceae. Monocot classification has undergone considerable revision in recent years, and some newer systems, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botany who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge in angiosperm relationships based upon molecular systematics studies....
's APG II classification system, have assigned many of these genera to different families based on genetic relationships. APG II transfers to other families (and, where it applies, orders) are listed in brackets.

  • Abama (synonym of Narthecium, Nartheciaceae, Dioscoreales)
  • Aletris
    Aletris

    Aletris is a genus of flowering plants in the Melanthiaceae family.External links...
     (Nartheciaceae, Dioscoreales)
  • Allium
    Allium

    Allium is the onion genus, with about 1250 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world. They are perennial plant bulbous plants that produce chemical compounds that give them a characteristic onion or garlic taste and odor, and many are used as food plants....
     Onion and garlic (Alliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Amaryllis
    Amaryllis

    Amaryllis is a monotypic genus of plant also known as the Belladonna Lily or naked ladies. The single species, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape....
     Amaryllis (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Amianthium
    Amianthium

    Amianthium is a monotypic genus of perennial plants growing from bulbs. It contains the single species Amianthium muscitoxicum, known in English as fly poison from a literal translation of the Latin muscitoxicum, is noted for its pretty flowers and its toxic alkaloid content....
     Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Androstephium
    Androstephium

    The genus Androstephium belongs to the order Asparagales and contains three species.Species include:*Androstephium breviflorum - pink funnel lily...
      (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Anthericum
    Anthericum

    Anthericum is a genus of about 300 species, rhizomatous perennial plants in the family Agavaceae. The species have Rhizome or tuberous roots, long narrow leaves and branched stems carrying starry white flowers....
     Agaceae, Asparagales)
  • Anticlea
    Anticlea

    In Greek mythology, Anticlea, , was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea, and mother of Odysseus by Laertes . She is also the granddaughter of the trickster god Hermes ....
     Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Arthropodium
    Arthropodium

    Arthropodium is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants native to the Southern Hemisphere. It is sometimes placed in the family Asphodelaceae....
     Laxmanniaceae, Asparagales)
  • Asparagus (genus)
    Asparagus (genus)

    The genus Asparagus in the plant family Asparagaceae comprises up to 300 species. The most well-known species is the edible asparagus, commonly referred to as just asparagus....
     Asparagus (Asparagaceae, Asparagales)
  • Asphodelus
    Asphodelus

    Asphodelus is a genus of mainly perennial plants native to central and southern Europe, but are now spread worldwide. Asphodels are popular garden plants, which grow in well-drained soils with abundant natural light....
     (Asphodelaceae, Asparagales)
  • Astelia (Asteliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Atamosco (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Bellevalia
    Bellevalia

    Bellevalia is a genus of plants in the Hyacinthaceae....
     (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales)
  • Bloomeria
    Bloomeria

    Bloomeria, a geophyte in the Themidaceae, was named for H. G. Bloomer an early San Francisco, California botanist. It consists of three species of California and Baja California:...
     (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Bomarea
    Bomarea

    Bomarea is one of the two major genus in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes. Several species are occasionally found as garden plants....
     (Alstroemeriaceae
    Alstroemeriaceae

    The Alstroemeriaceae is a family of flowering plants, with 200 species in three or four genus, native to the Americas, from Central America to southern South America....
    )
  • Brodiaea
    Brodiaea

    The genus Brodiaea belongs to the order Asparagales. Brodiaea occurs in the West Coast of the United States, especially northern California....
     (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Calochortus
    Calochortus

    Calochortus is a genus of bulbous plants that includes 70 species from British Columbia to Guatemala and east to Nebraska. Calochortus is the most widely dispersed genus of Liliaceae on the North American Pacific coast....
     (Liliaceae or Calochortaceae
    Calochortaceae

    Calochortaceae is a family of flowering plants. It is recognised by only a few list of systems of plant taxonomy, including the Dahlgren system, which placed it in the order Liliales in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae [=monocotyledons] of class Magnoliopsida [=angiosperms]....
    )
  • Camassia
    Camassia

    Camassia is a genus of six species native to western North America, from southern British Columbia to northern California, and east to Utah, Wyoming and Montana....
     Quamash (Agavaceae
    Agavaceae

    Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Yucca brevifolia. The family includes about 550-600 species in around 18 genus, and is widespread in the tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of the world....
    )
  • Chamaelirium
    Chamaelirium

    Chamaelirium luteum, commonly known as Blazing-Star, Devil's Bit, or Fairy Wand, is a perennial herb native to the eastern United States. It can be found in a variety of habitats, including wet meadows and deciduous woodlands....
     Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Chionographis Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Chlorogalum (Agavaceae, Asparagales)
  • Chlorophytum
    Chlorophytum

    Chlorophytum is a genus of about 200-220 species of evergreen Perennial plant flowering plants in the Agavaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia....
     Agaceae, Asparagales)
  • Clintonia
    Clintonia

    The genus Clintonia contains the bead Lily, which flower and then fruit into berry. Plants of this genus are distributed across North America and eastern Asia....
     (Liliaceae)
  • Colchicum
    Colchicum

    Colchicum is a genus of flowering plants containing around sixty species of perennial plants which grow from corms. It is a member of family Colchicaceae, and is native to West Asia and part of the Mediterranean coast....
      (Colchicaceae
    Colchicaceae

    Colchicaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots, and regards the family as including some two hundred species of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes...
    )
  • Conanthera
    Conanthera

    Conanthera is a genus of 3-4 species small Chilean bulbous plants with small panicles of blue, purple or white and purple flowers Propagation is by offsets or seed....
     (Tecophilaeaceae, Asparagales)
  • Convallaria
    Convallaria

    Convallaria majalis, commonly known as the Lily of the Valley or Lily-of-the-Valley, is the only species in the genus Convallaria in the flowering plant family Ruscaceae, formerly placed in the lily family Liliaceae or in its own family called Convallariaceae....
     Lily of the valley (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Cooperia
    Cooperia

    Cooperia is a genus of tender herbaceous perennials native to South America and the southern reaches of North America. They are closely related to Zephyranthes and Habranthus, all members of the Amaryllidaceae, or Amaryllis family....
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Crinum
    Crinum

    Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, including South Africa....
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Curculigo (Hypoxidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Cyclobothra subgenus of Calochortus)
  • Daiswa (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Dianella
    Dianella (genus)

    The genus Dianella consist of 30 known species belonging to the Family Hemerocallidaceae with around half native to Australia.Features:...
     (Hemerocallidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Disporum
    Disporum

    Disporum is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Colchicaceae.The species shown, Disporum lanuginosum is found in the Great Smoky Mountains....
     Colchicaceae
    Colchicaceae

    Colchicaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots, and regards the family as including some two hundred species of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes...
    )
  • Drimia (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales)
  • Drimiopsis
    Drimiopsis

    Drimiopsis is a genus of African bulbous perennial plant herbs in the hyacinth family Hyacinthaceae. Sometimes species are placed under the genus Ledebouria....
     (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales)
  • Echeandia (Agavaceae, Asparagales)
  • Eremurus
    Eremurus

    Eremurus is a genus of 35-40 deciduous perennial flowers, also known as the foxtail lilies or desert candles. The inflorescence looks similar to a long spike or a bottlebrush....
     (Asphodelaceae, Asparagales)
  • Eriospermum
    Eriospermum

    Eriospermum are a group of tuberous plants from South Africa. The family is Ruscaceae. "Eriospermum" is from the Greek language erion for "wool" and sperma for "seed"....
     Ruscacaceae, Asparagales)
  • Erythronium
    Erythronium

    Erythronium is a genus of bulbous spring-flowering perennials. They have attractive pendant flowers and sometimes mottled leaves. Many are best grown in shade so that the bulbs do not overheat or dry out....
     Trout lily (Liliaceae)
  • Eucharis
    Eucharis (plant)

    Eucharis is a genus of about 15-20 species of monocotyledonous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to Central America and South America from Guatemala south to Bolivia....
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Eucrosia
    Eucrosia

    Eucrosia is a genus of plant in family Amaryllidaceae. It contains the following species :* Eucrosia aurantiaca, Pax* Eucrosia dodsonii, Meerow & Dehgan...
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Eustephia (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Fritillaria (Liliaceae)
  • Gagea
    Gagea

    Gagea is a large genus of Spring flowers in the Liliaceae found in Europe and western Asia. It is named after the England naturalist Thomas Gage ....
     (Liliaceae)
  • Gloriosa (Colchicaceae
    Colchicaceae

    Colchicaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots, and regards the family as including some two hundred species of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes...
    )
  • Griffinia (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Habranthus
    Habranthus

    Habranthus is a genus of tender herbaceous flowering bulbs in the Amaryllidaceae. The genus was first identified by pioneering bulb enthusiast William Herbert in 1824....
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Harperocallis Tofieldiaceae, Alismatales)
  • Hastingsia
    Hastingsia

    Hastingsia is a small genus of flowering plants known generally as rushlilies. These are lilylike perennial herbs native to western North America, particularly California and Oregon in the United States....
     (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales)
  • Helonias (Melanthiaceae, Asparagales)
  • Heloniopsis (Melanthiaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hemerocallis Daylily (Hemerocallidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hemiphylacus (Asparacaceae, Asparagales)
  • Herreria (Agavaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hesperanthes (Agavaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hesperoscordum (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hessea (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hippeastrum
    Hippeastrum

    Hippeastrum is a genus of about 70–75 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico and the Caribbean....
     "Amaryllis" (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hookera = Brodiaea subg. Hookera (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hosta
    Hosta

    Hosta is a genus of about 23?45 species of lily-like plants native to northeast Asia. They were once classified in the family Liliaceae but are now included in the family Agavaceae by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group....
     (Agavaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hymenocallis
    Hymenocallis

    Hymenocallis is a genus of plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. It contains some fifty species native to tropical and subtropical America. Hymenocallis are bulbous perennial herbs....
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Hypoxis
    Hypoxis

    Hypoxis is a genus of plant belonging to the Hypoxidaceae family.Species include:*Hypoxis hirsuta - Common goldstar*Hypoxis hemerocallidea syn. Hypoxis rooperi - African potato...
     (Hypoxidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Ismene
    Ismene

    Ismene is the name of two women of Greek mythology. The more famous is a daughter and sister of Oedipus, daughter and granddaughter of Jocasta, and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices....
     = Hymenocallis subg. ismene (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Jaimehintonia (Alliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Johnsonia (Laxmanniaceae, Asparagales)
  • Kniphofia
    Kniphofia

    Kniphofia is a genus of plants in the family Asphodelaceae that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Some species have been commercially used horticulturally and are commonly known for their bright, rocket-shaped flowers....
     (Asphodelaceae, Asparagales)
  • Laxmannia (Laxmanniaceae, Asparagales)
  • Lepidopharynx (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Leucocrinum
    Leucocrinum

    Leucocrinum montanum, commonly known as the sand lily, starlily or mountain lily, is the only species in the monotypic genus Leucocrinum....
     (Laxmanniaceae, Asparagales)
  • Leucojum Snowflake (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Lilium
    Lilium

    The genus Lilium are herbaceous flowering plants normally growing from bulbs. They comprise a genus of about 110 species in the lily family, Liliaceae....
     Lily (Liliaceae)
  • Liriope (plant) Lilyturf (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Maianthemum
    Maianthemum

    Maianthemum is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Ruscaceae, native to North America, Central America, northern Europe, northern and eastern Asia, and the Himalaya....
     (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Melanthium (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Metanarthecium (Nartheciaceae, Dioscoreales)
  • Miersia (Alliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Milla
    Milla

    Milla is a genus of plant belonging to the family Themidaceae and contains the following species of plants.* Milla biflora, Mexican star...
     (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Molineria (Hypoxidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Muilla
    Muilla

    The genus Muilla belongs to the Alliaceae family and contains the following species of plants.*Muilla clevelandii - San Diego goldenstar...
      (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Narcissus Jonquil, daffodil (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Narthecium
    Narthecium

    Narthecium is the botanical name of a genus of flowering plants. This genus was traditionally treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae, but the APG II system of 2003 placed it in the family Nartheciaceae....
     (Nartheciaceae, Dioscoreales)
  • Nietneria (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Nomocharis
    Nomocharis

    Nomocharis is a genus of the family Liliaceae. It consists of about 7 species native to montane regions of western China, Myanmar, and northern India....
     (Liliaceae)
  • Notholirion (Liliaceae)
  • Nothoscordum
    Nothoscordum

    The genus Nothoscordum belongs to the Alliaceae family and contains the following species of plants.*Nothoscordum bivalve *Nothoscordum inodorum ...
     (Alliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Odontostomum (Tecophilaeaceae, Asparagales)
  • Ophiopogon
    Ophiopogon

    Ophiopogon is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Ruscaceae, formerly classified with the Liliaceae. There are about 65 species, native to warm temperate to tropical east, southeast, and south Asia....
     (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Ornithogalum (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales)
  • Paradisea
    Paradisea

    Paradisea is a genus of flowering plants, formerly classified in the family Liliaceae or Anthericaceae but now placed in Agavaceae. The genus includes several species which were formerly classed as part of the genus Anthericum....
     (Anthericaceae, Asparagales)
  • Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
     (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Peliosanthes (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Phaedranassa
    Phaedranassa

    Phaedranassa is a genus of plant in family Amaryllidaceae. It contains the following species :* Phaedranassa brevifolia, Meerow* Phaedranassa cinerea, Pierfelice Ravenna...
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Polygonatum
    Polygonatum

    Polygonatum is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants within the family Ruscaceae, formerly classified in the lily family Liliaceae....
     Solomon's seal (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Prosartes
  • Schoenocaulon
    Schoenocaulon

    Schoenocaulon is a North American genus of 26 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, ranging from the southern United States to Peru....
     (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Scilla (Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales)
  • Scoliopus
    Scoliopus

    Scoliopus, or Fetid Adder's Tongue, is a genus of plant within the Liliaceae family consisting of two species, Scoliopus bigelovii and Scoliopus hallii. Both are found in deep shaded forests, primarily in the coastal counties of the western United States from central California to northern Oregon....
      (Liliaceae)
  • Selonia
    Selonia

    Selonia , also known as Aug?zeme , is a cultural region in Latvia encompassing the eastern part of the historical region of Zemgale . Not an administrative division in modern Latvia, Selija currently designates those portions of the Daugavpils, Jekabpils District and Aizkraukle districts that lie on the left bank of the Daugava river...
     = Eremurus (Asphodelaceae, Asparagales)
  • Smilacina False Solomon's seal (Ruscaceae, Asparagales, as Maianthemum
    Maianthemum

    Maianthemum is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Ruscaceae, native to North America, Central America, northern Europe, northern and eastern Asia, and the Himalaya....
    )
  • Stenanthium (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Streptopus (Liliaceae)
  • Stropholirion (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Theropogon (Alliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Tofieldia (Tofieldiaceae, Alismatales)
  • Tovaria
    Tovaria

    Tovaria is a genus of herbs native to Central America and northern South America. There are two species, Tovaria pundula and Tovaria fusca....
     (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Toxicoscordion = Zigadenus (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Tracyanthus (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Tricyrtis
    Tricyrtis

    Tricyrtis is a genus of the botany family Liliaceae, known in English as Toad lilies. Its native range is from the Himalayas to eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Philippines and Formosa....
      (Liliaceae)
  • Trillium
    Trillium

    Trillium is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia. They used to be treated in the family Trilliaceae or Trillium family, a part of the Liliales or Lily order....
     Trillium (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Triteleia (Themidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Tulbaghia Society garlic (Alliaceae, Asparagales)
  • Tulipa Tulip (Liliaceae)
  • Tupistra (Ruscaceae, Asparagales)
  • Urceolina (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Uvularia
    Uvularia

    Uvularia is a genus of plants in the family Colchicaceae, close to the lily family . They are commonly called Bellworts, Bellfowers or Merrybells....
     (Colchicaceae, Asparagales)
  • Vagnera = Smilacina = Maianthemum (Rusacaceae, Asparagales)
  • Veratrum
    Veratrum

    Veratrum is a genus of coarse, highly poisonous perennial plant herbs of the Melanthiaceae family . In English they are usually known as the False hellebores....
     (Melanthiaceae)
  • Wurmbea
    Wurmbea

    Wurmbea is a genus of perennial herbs that are Indigenous to Africa and Australia. There are about 40 species, with above half endemic to each continent....
     (Colchicaceae, Asparagales)
  • Xerophyllum
    Xerophyllum

    Xerophyllum is the name of two genera*Xerophyllum a genus of lily*Xerpphyllum a genus of grasshopper...
     (Melanthiaceae)
  • Zephyranthes
    Zephyranthes

    Zephyranthes is a genus of about 70 species in the Amaryllidaceae family. Common names for species in this genus include fairy lily, rainflower, zephyr lily, magic lily and rain lily....
     (Amaryllidaceae, Asparagales)
  • Zigadenus (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )
  • Zygadenus = 'Zigadenus (Melanthiaceae
    Melanthiaceae

    Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering plants perennial plant herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied....
    )


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