A plant family containing aquatic and semi-aquatic herbs, including water plantain and arrowhead plants.
From 'alisma' (water plantain genus) + '-aceae,' the scientific suffix for plant families. This Linnaean naming convention groups related plants taxonomically.
The Alismaceae family is one of the oldest flowering plant families—finding fossils of their ancestors helps scientists understand how plants first conquered watery habitats over 100 million years ago.
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