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Master List of Plants that Grow in my Yard

I'm going to try to use a taxonomy tree to list the plants and fungus that grows in my yard. I may have to change it if it gets unwieldy, but we'll give it a try.

Kingdom: Plants (Plantae)
     Phylum: vascular plants (Tracheobionta)
          Superdivision: Seed plants (Spermatophyta)
               Division: Flowering plants (Magnoliophyta)
                    Class: Dicloyledons (Magnoliopsida)
                         Subclass: Dilleniidae
                              Order: Ericales
                                   Family: Heath family (Ericaceae)
                                        Genus: Snowberry (Gaultheria)
                                             Species:  Wintergreen or Eastern teaberry
                                                           (Gaultheria Procumbens)
                        Subclass: Asteridae
                             Order: Asterales
                                  Family: Asteraceae
                                       Genus: Liatris
                                               Species: Blazing Star, snakeroot or
                                                            Gay Feather (Liatris spicata)

               Division: Ferns (Pteridophyta)
                   Class: Filicopsida
                         Order: Polypodiales
                              Family: Wood fern family (Dryopteridaceae)
                                   Genus: Cystopteris
                                        Species: Creeping Fragile Fern or Lowland Bladder Fern
                                                      (Cystopteris Protusa)