![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | plants terrestrial or semiaquatic; NOT [plants aquatic, leaves
submerged or floating] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | plants not with colored milky juice |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | plants with more than one normal leaf |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | some or all leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite, whorled, or basal] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | leaves with stipules; NOT [leaves without stipules, or having glands] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | flowers irregular in shape; NOT [flowers regular in shape] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | flowers with two floral rings |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | calyx regular; NOT [calyx irregular, some sepals smaller than others] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | each petal distinct from the others |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | corolla pea-like; NOT [corolla with one petal spurred or sac-like] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | stamens usually separate or partly so, not all in a column; NOT
[stamens all united into a column] |
![](../../../_themes/botany/blbull2.gif) | fruit a legume or loment; NOT [fruit a 3-valved capsule] |