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106 relations: Adoxaceae, Alaska, Amaranthaceae, Aphyllanthes, Apiaceae, Araliaceae, Arctic, Armen Takhtajan, Aspleniaceae, Asteraceae, Atlantic Ocean, Berberidaceae, Bering Strait, Betulaceae, Biogeographic realm, Biogeography, Boraginaceae, Brassicaceae, Bretschneidera, Butomus, Campanulaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Cenozoic, Cephalotaxaceae, Cercidiphyllum, Circumboreal Region, Climate, Cornaceae, Crossosomataceae, Cupressaceae, Cynomorium, Cyperaceae, Davidia involucrata, Diapensiaceae, Dipentodontaceae, Eastern Asiatic Region, Ericaceae, Eucommia, Euphorbiaceae, Euptelea, Eurasia, Fabaceae, Fagaceae, Flora, Fouquieria, Gentianaceae, Germany, Ginkgoaceae, Goldenseal, Hamamelidaceae, ..., Helwingia, Holarctic, Irano-Turanian Region, Iridaceae, Juglandaceae, Juncaceae, Lamiaceae, Lauraceae, Laurasia, Lüneburg Heath, Leitneria, Liliaceae, Limnanthaceae, Macaronesia, Madrean Region, Magnoliaceae, Malvaceae, Mediterranean Basin, Nearctic realm, North America, North American Atlantic Region, Orchidaceae, Palearctic realm, Penthorum, Peony, Phytochorion, Pinaceae, Platanaceae, Pleistocene, Plumbaginaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae, Polypodiaceae, Primulaceae, Pterostemonaceae, Ranunculaceae, Relict, Rhamnaceae, Rhoiptelea, Rocky Mountains, Ronald Good, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Saharo-Arabian Region, Salicaceae, Scheuchzeria, Scrophulariaceae, Siberia, Simmondsiaceae, Stachyurus, Supercontinent, Temperate climate, Theaceae, Thymelaeaceae, Torricelliaceae, Trochodendraceae. Expand index (56 more) »
Adoxaceae
Adoxaceae, commonly known as moschatel family, is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, now consisting of five genera and about 150–200 species.
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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus Amaranthus.
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Aphyllanthes
Aphyllanthes is a genus of flowering plants with only one species, Aphyllanthes monspeliensis, endemic to the western Mediterranean region.
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Apiaceae
Apiaceae or Umbelliferae, is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers.
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Araliaceae
The Araliaceae is a family made of 52 genera and 700 species of flowering plants including perennial herbs, trees, vines and succulents.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
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Armen Takhtajan
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian (Արմեն Լևոնի Թախտաջյան; Армен Леонович Тахтаджян; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan, Takhtadzhi︠a︡n or Takhtadzhian, pronounced TAHK-tuh-jahn) (June 10, 1910 – November 13, 2009), was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography.
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Aspleniaceae
The Aspleniaceae (spleenworts) is a family of ferns, included in the order Polypodiales or in some classifications as the only family in the order Aspleniales.
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Asteraceae
Asteraceae or Compositae (commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite,Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, p. 275 or sunflower family) is a very large and widespread family of flowering plants (Angiospermae).
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Berberidaceae
The Berberidaceae are a family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family.
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Bering Strait
The Bering Strait (Берингов пролив, Beringov proliv, Yupik: Imakpik) is a strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north.
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Betulaceae
Betulaceae, the birch family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams, hazel-hornbeam, and hop-hornbeams numbering a total of 167 species.
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Biogeographic realm
A biogeographic realm or ecozone is the broadest biogeographic division of the Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms.
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Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.
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Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the '''borage'''- or forget-me-not family, includes a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.
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Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae or Cruciferae is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family.
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Bretschneidera
Bretschneidera sinensis, the sole species in genus Bretschneidera, is a rare, tall tree with large inflorescences.
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Butomus
Butomus is the only known genus in the plant family Butomaceae, native to Europe and Asia.
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Campanulaceae
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap.
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Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants.
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Cenozoic
The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.
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Cephalotaxaceae
Cephalotaxaceae is a small grouping of conifers, with three genera and about 20 species, closely allied to the Taxaceae, and included in that family by some botanists.
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Cercidiphyllum
Cercidiphyllum is a genus containing two species of plants, both commonly called katsura.
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Circumboreal Region
The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan.
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Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
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Cornaceae
Cornaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales.
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Crossosomataceae
Crossosomataceae is a small plant family, consisting of three genera of shrubs found only in the dry parts of the American southwest and Mexico.
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Cupressaceae
Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution.
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Cynomorium
Cynomorium is a genus of parasitic perennial flowering plants in the family Cynomoriaceae.
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Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses and rushes.
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Davidia involucrata
Davidia involucrata, the dove-tree, handkerchief tree, pocket handkerchief tree, or ghost tree, is a medium-sized deciduous tree in the family Nyssaceae.
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Diapensiaceae
Diapensiaceae is a small family of flowering plants, comprising 12 species in five genera.
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Dipentodontaceae
Dipentodontaceae is a family of flowering plants containing two genera.
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Eastern Asiatic Region
The Eastern Asiatic Region (also known as Oriasiaticum, Sino-Japanese Region, East Asian Region, Temperate Eastern Region) is the richest floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom and situated in temperate East Asia.
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Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acid and infertile growing conditions.
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Eucommia
Eucommia is a genus of small trees now native to China, with a fossil record that shows a much wider distribution.
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Euphorbiaceae
The Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants.
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Euptelea
Euptelea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the monogeneric family Eupteleaceae.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
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Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...
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Fagaceae
Fagaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes beeches and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species.
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Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.
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Fouquieria
Fouquieria is a genus of 11 species of desert plants, the sole genus in the family Fouquieriaceae.
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Gentianaceae
Gentianaceae is a family of flowering plants of 87 genera and about 1600 species.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Ginkgoaceae
The Ginkgoaceae is a family of gymnosperms which appeared during the Mesozoic Era, of which the only extant representative is Ginkgo biloba, which is for this reason sometimes regarded as a living fossil.
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Goldenseal
Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), also called orangeroot or yellow puccoon, is a perennial herb in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to southeastern Canada and the eastern United States.
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Hamamelidaceae
Hamamelidaceae, commonly referred to as the witch-hazel family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales.
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Helwingia
The genus Helwingia consists of shrubs native to eastern Asia, the Himalayas, and northern Indochina.
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Holarctic
The Holarctic is the name for the biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world, combining Wallace's Palearctic zoogeographical region, consisting of North Africa and all of Eurasia (with the exception of the southern Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent), and the Nearctic zoogeographical region, consisting of North America, north of Mexico.
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Irano-Turanian Region
The Irano-Turanian Region is a floristic region located within the Tethyan Subkingdom of the Holarctic Kingdom.
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Iridaceae
Iridaceae is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises, meaning rainbow, referring to its many colours.
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Juglandaceae
The Juglandaceae are a family, known as the walnut family, of trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales.
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Juncaceae
Juncaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the rush family.
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Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint or deadnettle family.
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Lauraceae
Lauraceae are the laurel family, that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives.
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Laurasia
Laurasia was the more northern of two supercontinents (the other being Gondwana) that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent around (Mya).
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Lüneburg Heath
Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany.
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Leitneria
Leitneria floridana (corkwood), the sole species in the genus Leitneria, is a deciduous dioecious shrub or small tree, found only in the southeastern United States states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas.
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Liliaceae
The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of fifteen genera and about 705 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016) of flowering plants within the order Liliales.
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Limnanthaceae
The Limnanthaceae are a small family of annual herbs occurring throughout temperate North America.
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Macaronesia
Macaronesia is a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the continents of Europe and Africa.
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Madrean Region
The Madrean Region (named after the Sierra Madre Occidental) is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in North America, as delineated by Armen Takhtajan and Robert F. Thorne.
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Magnoliaceae
The Magnoliaceae are a flowering plant family, the magnolia family, in the order Magnoliales.
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Malvaceae
Malvaceae, or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species.
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Mediterranean Basin
In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (also known as the Mediterranean region or sometimes Mediterranea) is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.
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Nearctic realm
The Nearctic is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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North American Atlantic Region
North American Atlantic Region is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom identified by Armen Takhtajan and Robert F. Thorne, spanning from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to the Great Plains and comprising a major part of the United States and southeastern portions of Canada.
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Orchidaceae
The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.
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Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight biogeographic realms on the Earth's surface, first identified in the 19th century, and still in use today as the basis for zoogeographic classification.
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Penthorum
Penthorum is a genus of plants in the order Saxifragales.
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Peony
The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae.
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Phytochorion
A phytochorion, in phytogeography, is a geographic area with a relatively uniform composition of plant species.
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Pinaceae
The Pinaceae (pine family) are trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines and spruces.
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Platanaceae
The Platanaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order Proteales.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Plumbaginaceae
Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution.
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Poaceae
Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.
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Polygonaceae
The Polygonaceae are a family of flowering plants known informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States.
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Polypodiaceae
Polypodiaceae is a family of polypod ferns, which includes more than 60 genera divided into several tribes and containing around 1,000 species.
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Primulaceae
The Primulaceae are a family of herbaceous and woody flowering plants with about 53 genera with 2790 species, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers, commonly known as the primrose family.
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Pterostemonaceae
Pterostemonaceae (Engl.) Small is a small family of shrubs native to tropical and subtropical Mexico.
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Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide.
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Relict
A relict is a surviving remnant of a natural phenomenon.
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Rhamnaceae
The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family.
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Rhoiptelea
Rhoiptelea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Juglandaceae family.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.
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Ronald Good
Ronald D'Oyley Good (1896-1992) was a British botanist notable for his floristic regionalization.
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Rosaceae
Rosaceae, the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
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Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family.
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Saharo-Arabian Region
The Saharo-Arabian Region is a floristic region of the Holarctic Kingdom proposed by Armen Takhtajan.
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Salicaceae
The Salicaceae are a family, the willow family, of flowering plants.
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Scheuchzeria
Scheuchzeria palustris (Rannoch-rush, or pod grass), is a flowering plant in the family Scheuchzeriaceae, in which there is only one species and Scheuchzeria is the only genus.
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Scrophulariaceae
The Scrophulariaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the figwort family.
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Siberia
Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.
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Simmondsiaceae
Simmondsiaceae or the jojoba family is a family of flowering plants.
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Stachyurus
Stachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia.
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Supercontinent
In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Theaceae
Theaceae is a family of flowering plants, composed of shrubs and trees, including the camellias.
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Thymelaeaceae
The Thymelaeaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera (listed below) and 898 species.
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Torricelliaceae
The Torricelliaceae are a family of trees native to Madagascar and southwest Asia.
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Trochodendraceae
Trochodendraceae is the only family of flowering plants in the order Trochodendrales.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_Kingdom
