CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS BASED ON FAMILY

• APICEAE FAMILY - It is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium. It includes plants whose defining characteristic is the arrangement of their flowers in umbels, hence their name
• LAMIACEAE FAMILY - This family includes plants with leaves containing many small glands that secrete essential oils, making these plants highly fragrant. That is why many are used in herbal teas (lemon), jams (mint), cooking (thyme), perfumes (lavender), and more
• SOLANACEAE - This family is also known as the nightshade family includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines that grow in temperate and tropical regions. A few examples of the most known horticultural crops under this family are eggplants, bell peppers, potatoes, tobacco, and tomatoes. They are also known to contain alkaloids such as solanine, tropanes, and nicotine, and also contain a pungent chemical known as capsaicin (which is measured by the Scoville Rating
• ASTERACEAE FAMILY - family is mostly herbaceous plants but there are also some trees, shrubs, and vines. these species are generally easy to distinguish from other plants because of their unique inflorescence and other shared characteristics, such as the joined anthers of the stamens. E.G. are daisy, aster and sunflower
• BRASSICACEAE FAMILY - This family is characterized by a siliquose fruit and a four-sepaled flower, with four petals in a cross shape and six stamens, including two smaller ones. The alternative (older) name, Cruciferae, meaning "cross-bearing", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which resemble a cross. Examples are mustard, cabbages, cauliflower, turnips, and radishes
• LILIACEAE FAMILY - This family includes plants with usually vertical and very long leaves, as well as flowers with six colorful petals. These species can be ornamental or medicinal or can be eaten while some are used to make textiles. Examples are garlic, asparagus, chives, shallots, onions, tulips, lilies, and leeks
• ROSACEAE FAMILY - This family includes herbaceous and woody plants with alternate leaves and either simple or composite flowers, usually pinkish in color. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa
• CUCURBITACEAE FAMILY - The Cucurbits or Gourd family includes herbaceous plants (and a few very rare shrubs), usually rampant or else climbing, using spiral tendrils
• AMARANTHACEAE FAMILY - This family are annual or perennial herbs or shrubs/subshrubs; very few species are vines or trees. Some species are succulent. Many of the species are halophytes that can tolerate salty soils, or grow in dry grasslands or semi-deserts
• FABACEAE FAMILY - This family, commonly known as pulses, includes herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines. This family is present in regions that range from cold to tropical.
• MALVACEAE FAMILY - These are a family of flowering plants with well-known members, okra, cotton, cacao, and durian, with economic importance
• ANNUALS - They are plants that normally complete their life cycle during a single growing season. Examples are lettuce, spinach, marigold
• BIENNIALS - They are plants that normally complete their life cycle during a period of two growing seasons. Examples are celery, carrot, parsnip, etc
• PERENNIALS - They are plants that grow year after year, often taking many years to mature.
• CLIMBING PLANTS - They are also called vines. The stems trail along or coil around other plants or structures as they grow upward. Examples include cucumber and grapes
• CLUMP FORMING PLANTS - These plants exhibit an aggregate of several shoots growing in a bunch from a common base, especially in grasses. Examples include a bunch of grasses and sedges. They characterize grasslands and are common in prairies
• DENSE PLANTS - They grow many small, woody canes, or stems very close together in an upright posture. The majority are shrubs. They characterize woodlands, grasslands, coastal vegetation, and deserts
• ERECT PLANTS - In these plants one main stem grows in an upright position clearly above ground level. This is common in trees. Examples include banana, pine, and palm
• MAT FORMING PLANTS - this type of plants have many stolons (creeping stems) that grow in a trail along soil or water surfaces and spread out to produce a mat-like cover
• MOUND FORMING PLANTS - These plants grow to form a rounded shape resembling a mound or swollen bump
• OPEN PLANTS - These are upright, woody stems or canes growing in an erect posture characterize open plants. Their growth resembles a dense habit but has fewer stems and an open, airier structure. Examples include bamboo, black willow, etc
• PROSTRATE PLANTS - The stems of these plants grow flat on the soil surface or almost touching (or hugging) the ground but not trailing. Examples include the herbaceous milk purslane weed (Euphorbia supina), and some species of juniper
• SCANDENT PLANTS - These plants have prominent stems in a leaning position. Examples include sugarcane, coconut palm, blackberry, and some bamboo. They characterize the dwarfed, woody trees in the timberline of the tundra, savanna, forest undergrowth, and coastal habitats
• SPREADING PLANTS - These plants exhibit a sprawling type of growth, resulting from profuse lateral branching in mostly woody or succulent stems. Examples are blueberries, prickly-pear cacti, and some ferns
• STEMLESS PLANTS - These plants have no visible stem above ground and are composed mainly of leaves or leaflike structures. Examples include common dandelion, Aloe vera, onion, and liverworts