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Sue Carnahan
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JANAS 33(1)
LEAVES: alternate (except Coleogyne), stipulate, simple to compound or dissected. PLANT: Plants herbaceous or woody. INFLORESCENCE: usually more or less cymose. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic, often bearing 5 bracteoles; hypanthium bearing sepals, petals, and stamens; sepals usually 5; petals usually 5, distinct, often showy; stamens usually 10 many in whorls of 5; receptacle sometimes enlarged; pistils 1 many, each of 1 5 carpels, the ovaries superior to inferior. FRUIT: an achene, follicle, drupe, pome, hip, aggregate or accessory. x = 7 9, 14 17. NOTES: Ca. 100 genera, ca. 3,000 spp., worldwide, concentrated in temperate and subtropical n. hemisphere. Many cultivated for fruits (Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Rubus, etc.) and as ornamentals (Crataegus, Pyracantha, Rosa, Sorbus, Spiraea, etc.). REFERENCES: Brasher, Jeffrey W. 2001. Rosaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora || << 51 - 100 taxa >>
Osteomeles schwerinae
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Peraphyllum ramosissimum
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Petrophyton caespitosum
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Petrophytum caespitosum
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Photinia serratifolia
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Photinia serrulata
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Photinia x fraseri
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Physocarpus monogynus
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Potentilla albiflora
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Potentilla angelliae
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Potentilla basaltica
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Potentilla biennis
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Potentilla concinna
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Potentilla crinita
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Potentilla diversifolia
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Potentilla gracilis
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Potentilla hippiana
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Potentilla inclinata
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Potentilla indica
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Potentilla jepsonii
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Potentilla nivea
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Potentilla norvegica
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Potentilla pectinisecta
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Potentilla pensylvanica
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Potentilla plattensis
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Potentilla pulcherrima
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Potentilla recta
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Potentilla rhyolitica
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Potentilla rivalis
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Potentilla rubida
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Potentilla sanguinea
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Potentilla subviscosa
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Potentilla thurberi
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Potentilla wheeleri
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Poterium sanguisorba
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Prunus americana
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Prunus armeniaca
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Prunus caroliniana
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Prunus cerasifera
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Prunus domestica
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Prunus dulcis
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Prunus emarginata
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Prunus fasciculata
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Prunus ilicifolia
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Prunus munsoniana
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Prunus pensylvanica
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Prunus persica
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Prunus serotina
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Prunus virginiana
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Purshia glandulosa
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