Plant Families – Flora of Israel

_{Linnaeus (1707–78), the Swedish botanist, organized the system of plant nomenclature. He developed his system of classification based on a plant’s sexuality, organizing them into groups called Classes and Orders. These divisions are based on pistil and stamen structure. Plants are classified from the highest division, Kingdom, to Subkingdom, Superdivision, Division, Class, Subclass, Order, Family, Genus, and the way to Species, the lowiest.}

_{Orders are divided in families and the highest classification group normally referred to is the Family. This classification assigns a type of plant to each family as an example of that family’s characteristics as distinguishable from other families. The family names end in “aceae.”}

_{Linnaeus established a precise and workable two-word, or binomial, system for naming plants. The first word is the name of the genus and the second the species.}

_{He wrote about this in two of his most important books: Genera Plantarum in 1737 and Species Plantarum in 1753.}