pink family
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, and Polygonaceae. It is a large family, with 81 genera and about 2,625 known species.
11 branches of this family, most-observed first
Caryophylloideae
subfamilyCaryophylloideae
Chickweed Tribe
tribeAlsineae
sandworts
tribeArenarieae
Spurrey tribe
tribeSperguleae
Sagineae
tribeSagineae
Sclerantheae
tribeSclerantheae
Polycarpeae
tribePolycarpeae
Paronychieae
tribeParonychieae
Eremogoneae
tribeEremogoneae
Corrigioleae
tribeCorrigioleae
Selleola
genusSelleola
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48567.