Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains

Class Liliopsida, Monocotyledons


Herbs (those included here) with vascular bundles of the stem usually scattered in the ground tissue, lacking a cambium; leaves often long and linear, sometimes reduced to sheathing at the base of the stem, mostly parallel-veined, the veins rarely forming a network; flower parts usually in multiples of 3; plant embryo usually with 1 cotyledon.
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