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Tuesday - September 22, 2009
From: Harvey, LA
Region: Southeast
Topic: General Botany
Title: Plant Groups
Answered by: Damon Waitt
QUESTION:
What are ways to group plants?ANSWER:
Can you please be more specific. Are you talking about grouping plants for display in your yard or garden or are you talking about grouping plants for scientific study. If the latter, then plants are grouped according to the hierarchical system of classification (Kingdom, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species). If the former, please refer to our How To Articles.More General Botany Questions
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