English: Jacob’s-ladder family; Phlox family.
Dutch: Vlambloemfamilie.
Botany: 3 fused carpels, plicate corollas; desert.
Genera: Acanthogilia, Aliciella, Allophyllum, Bonplandia, Bryantiella, Cantua, Cobaea, Collomia, Dayia, Eriastrum, Gilia, Giliastrum, Gymnosteris, Hugelia, Ipomopsis, Langloisia, Lathrocasis, Leptodactylon, Leptosiphon, Linanthus, Loeselia, Loeseliastrum, Microgilia, Microsteris, Navarretia, Phlox, Polemonium, Saltugilia, Tintinabulum.
Fouquieriaceae: Fouqueria.
DD:
Carbon series; Phosphor,
Boron.
TaxonomyPolemoniacae have many traits in common with the
Solanaceae and
Convolvulaceae, so it was formerly placed in the
Polemoniales order that is now named
Solanales. In the
Apg3 classification Polemoniacae is palced in
Ericales.
Polemoniaceae and
Fouquieriaceae are closely related and taken together in
Phase 2.