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• Agrostemma, genus Agrostemma go
  a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles
  
• Arenaria, genus Arenaria go
  sandworts
  
• Cerastium, genus Cerastium go
  mouse-eared chickweed
  
• Dianthus, genus Dianthus go
  carnations and pinks
  
• genus Drypis go
  one species
  
• Gypsophila, genus Gypsophila go
  Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers
  
• Hernaria, genus Hernaria go
  low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves
  
• Illecebrum, genus Illecebrum go
  one species: coral necklace
  
• genus Lychnis go
  genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly
  
• Minuartia, genus Minuartia go
  mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit
  
• Moehringia, genus Moehringia go
  low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts
  
• Paronychia, genus Paronychia go
  low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants
  
• Petrocoptis, genus Petrocoptis go
  perennial tussock-forming rock plants
  
• Sagina, genus Sagina go
  small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions
  
• Saponaria, genus Saponaria go
  mostly perennial Old World herbs
  
• Scleranthus, genus Scleranthus go
  small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel
  
• genus Silene go
  large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion
  
• Spergula, genus Spergula go
  small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry
  
• Spergularia, genus Spergularia go
  chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry
  
• Vaccaria, genus Vaccaria go
  cow-cockles
  
• Carpobrotus, genus Carpobrotus go
  a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus
  
• Dorotheanthus, genus Dorotheanthus go
  a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus
  
• genus Lithops go
  genus of stemless South African succulents
  
• Mesembryanthemum, genus Mesembryanthemum go
  South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight
  
• Molluga, genus Molluga go
  carpetweeds
  
• Pleiospilos, genus Pleiospilos go
  perennial succulents of South Africa
  
• Tetragonia, genus Tetragonia go
  New Zealand spinach
  
• Amaranthus, genus Amaranthus go
  large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs
  
• Alternanthera, genus Alternanthera go
  genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia
  
• Celosia, genus Celosia go
  annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
  
• Froelichia, genus Froelichia go
  genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed
  
• Gomphrena, genus Gomphrena go
  genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads
  
• Iresine, genus Iresine go
  genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs
  
• Telanthera, genus Telanthera go
  used in former classifications systems
  
• Batis, genus Batis go
  small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs
  
• Chenopodium, genus Chenopodium go
  goosefoot
  
• Atriplex, genus Atriplex go
  orach
  
• Bassia, genus Bassia, Kochia, genus Kochia go
  summer cypress
  
• Beta, genus Beta go
  beets
  
• Cycloloma, genus Cycloloma go
  a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae
  
• genus Halogeton go
  a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae
  
• Salicornia, genus Salicornia go
  glassworts
  
• Salsola, genus Salsola go
  chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts
  
• Sarcobatus, genus Sarcobatus go
  one species: greasewood
  
• Spinacia, genus Spinacia go
  spinach
  
• Nyctaginia, genus Nyctaginia go
  a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species
  
• Abronia, genus Abronia go
  genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers
  
• Allionia, genus Allionia go
  small genus of chiefly American herbs
  
• genus Bougainvillea, Bougainvillaea, genus Bougainvillaea go
  ornamental tropical woody vines
  
• Mirabilis, genus Mirabilis go
  four o'clocks
  
• Pisonia, genus Pisonia go
  genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines
  
• Acanthocereus, genus Acanthocereus go
  mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers
  
• Aporocactus, genus Aporocactus go
  small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico
  
• Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus go
  slow-growing geophytic cacti
  
• Carnegiea, genus Carnegiea go
  caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro
  
• Cereus, genus Cereus go
  genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white
  
• genus Coryphantha go
  mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules
  
• genus Echinocactus go
  globular or cylindrical cacti
  
• Echinocereus, genus Echinocereus go
  large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States
  
• genus Epiphyllum go
  small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti
  
• Ferocactus, genus Ferocactus go
  genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti
  
• Gymnocalycium, genus Gymnocalycium go
  large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles
  
• Harrisia, genus Harrisia go
  genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers
  
• Hatiora, genus Hatiora go
  small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
  
• Hylocereus, genus Hylocereus go
  genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers
  
• Lemaireocereus, genus Lemaireocereus go
  tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit
  
• Lophophora, genus Lophophora go
  two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal
  
• genus Mammillaria go
  large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface
  
• Melocactus, genus Melocactus go
  genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean
  
• Myrtillocactus, genus Myrtillocactus go
  small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America
  
• Pediocactus, genus Pediocactus go
  low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America
  
• Opuntia, genus Opuntia go
  large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears
  
• Pereskia, genus Pereskia, Peireskia, genus Peireskia go
  genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers
  
• Rhipsalis, genus Rhipsalis go
  large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches
  
• Schlumbergera, genus Schlumbergera go
  South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
  
• Selenicereus, genus Selenicereus go
  mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night
  
• Zygocactus, genus Zygocactus go
  small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits
  
• Phytolacca, genus Phytolacca go
  type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed
  
• Agdestis, genus Agdestis go
  a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots
  
• Ercilla, genus Ercilla go
  a genus of evergreen climbers
  
• Rivina, genus Rivina go
  small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs
  
• Trichostigma, genus Trichostigma go
  a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America
  
• genus Portulaca go
  genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs
  
• Calandrinia, genus Calandrinia go
  large genus of low-growing herbs
  
• Claytonia, genus Claytonia go
  genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes
  
• Lewisia, genus Lewisia go
  genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
  
• Montia, genus Montia go
  small genus of densely tufted annual herbs
  
• Spraguea, genus Spraguea go
  small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes
  
• Talinum, genus Talinum go
  genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs