The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. They comprise one of the two groups in the seed plants, distinct in covering their seeds by enclosing them in a true fruit. They bear the reproductive organs in a structure called a flower; the ovule is enclosed within a carpel, which will lead to a fruit.
In the other major group of seed plants, called gymnosperms, the ovule is not enclosed at pollination and the seeds are not in a true fruit, although woody or fleshy cones often enclose and cover the seeds during maturation.

Angiosperm Phylogeny - Phylogenetic trees, technical descriptions of all orders and families, references, and links. By Peter Stevens of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Angiosperms Image Gallery - Extensive collection, organized by family.
Flowering Plant Gateway - Various paths for exploration or comparison of four major flowering plant classification systems (Cronquist, Takhtajan, Thorne and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system). From Texas AM University.
Meta Description: [ base page for frame-oriented expression of two flowering plant classification systems ]
OSU Seed Biology Program - SeedID Index - Photographs of the seeds of selected plants.
The Families of Flowering Plants - A taxonomical database with descriptions and illustrations of each family, and an interactive key to families.
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