Alismatales: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	water plantain order • Alismales

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Spadix of the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum) with a pale green, hood-like spathe surrounded by broad, green leaves growing from the forest floor.

Fresh taro tubers with stems attached are lined up for sale at a market in Hawaii.

Peace lily inflorescence

Water clover surrounded by duckweed. The green streaks are duckweed being moved by the wind.

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Butomaceae Zosteraceae Limnocharitaceae Araceae Hydrocharitaceae Alismataceae pondweed calla lily ribbon weed turtle grass Asparagales Pandanales Liliales Dioscoreales Acorales rush grass skunk cabbage

Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap

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trees deciduous and coniferous. trees grow on a bank of a forest in springtime in Alberta, British Columbia, Canada. logging, forestry, wood, lumber, wilderness

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