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Plumbaginaceae is a family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution
Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a biological category of living things is said to have cosmopolitan distribution if this category can be found almost anywhere around the world....
. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family.

Most species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
 in this family are perennial
Perennial plant

A perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants....
 herbaceous
Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
 plants, but a few grow as liana
Liana

The liana is any of various long-stemmed, usually woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in order to get access to well-lit areas of the forest....
s or shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s. The plants have perfect flowers and are pollinated by insect
Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s. They are found in many different climatic regions, from arctic to tropical conditions, but are particularly associated with salt
Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SodiumChlorine....
-rich steppes, marshes, and sea coasts.

The family has been recognized by most taxonomists.






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Plumbaginaceae is a family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution
Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a biological category of living things is said to have cosmopolitan distribution if this category can be found almost anywhere around the world....
. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family.

Most species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
 in this family are perennial
Perennial plant

A perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants....
 herbaceous
Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
 plants, but a few grow as liana
Liana

The liana is any of various long-stemmed, usually woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in order to get access to well-lit areas of the forest....
s or shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s. The plants have perfect flowers and are pollinated by insect
Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s. They are found in many different climatic regions, from arctic to tropical conditions, but are particularly associated with salt
Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SodiumChlorine....
-rich steppes, marshes, and sea coasts.

The family has been recognized by most taxonomists. The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
 (2003; unchanged from the APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
 of 1998), recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales
Caryophyllales

Caryophyllales is an Order of flowering plants that includes the cactus, Dianthus caryophylluss, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants....
 in the clade core eudicots. It includes 24 genera and about 800 species.

The 1981 Cronquist system
Cronquist system

A list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants . This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ....
 placed the family in a separate order Plumbaginales
Plumbaginales

Plumbaginales is an order of flowering plants. The order is recognized by several list of systems of plant taxonomy, such as the Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, the Engler system, in its update of 1964 and the Cronquist system, 1981....
, which included no other families. The Dahlgren system
Dahlgren system

One of the modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Dahlgren system was published by monocotyledons specialist Rolf Martin Theodor Dahlgren....
 had segregated some of these plants as family Limoniaceae.

Genera
  • Acantholimon
    Acantholimon

    Acantholimon is a genus of small flowering plants within the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. They are distributed from southeastern Europe to central Asia and also in South America, but also cultivated elsewhere in rock gardens....
  • Aegialitis
    Aegialitis

    Aegialitis is a genus of two shrubby mangrove species, with one native to Southeast Asia and the other native to Australia and Papua New Guinea....
  • Armeria
    Armerķa

    Armer?a is a municipality in the south-central part of the Mexico States of Mexico of Colima. The municipality reported 24,939 inhabitants in the 2005 census and has an area of 341.6 km? ....
    , the thrifts or seapinks
  • Bamiana
  • Buciniczea
  • Cephalorhizum
  • Ceratostigma
    Ceratostigma

    Ceratostigma is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa and Asia....
    , the leadwort
    Leadwort

    Leadwort is a common name for flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, in particular those in the genera:*Ceratostigma*Plumbago...
    s
  • Chaetolimon
  • Dictyolimon
  • Dyerophytum
  • Eremolimon
  • Ghasnianthus
  • Goniolimon
  • Ikonnikovia
  • Limoniastrum
  • Limoniopsis
  • Limonium (syn. Statice), the sealavenders
  • Muellerolimon
    Muellerolimon

    Muellerolimon salicorniaceum, the sole species in genus Muellerolimon, is a succulent perennial herb or shrub that grows on salt mudflats in Western Australia....
  • Neogontscharovia
  • Plumbagella
  • Plumbago
    Plumbago

    Plumbago is a genus of 10-20 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world....
    , the leadwort
    Leadwort

    Leadwort is a common name for flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, in particular those in the genera:*Ceratostigma*    Plumbago...
    s or plumbagos
  • Popoviolimon
  • Psylliostachys
  • Vassilczenkoa


Cultivation and uses

Chalk glands are found in this family.The family includes a number of popular garden
Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing ornamental or useful plants. Ornamental plants are normally grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance....
 species, which are grown for their attractive flowers.