Liliopsida is the botanical name for Lilies. Now I know, you don’t normally think of trees when you think of Lilies but we actually have 5 families of plants that are woody, have parallel venation in the leaves, and live in East Texas.  Guess how you figure out which plant you have. :o)

If your plant has large palmate leaves (think of leaves like fingers coming from the palm of the “hand”) Click Here

If your plant has individual leaves that are linear (lance like – much longer than they are wide) then Click Here

This is the biggest and most diverse group of plants on earth.  Every plant that makes a flower belongs to this group.  Can you imagine a taxonomic key that would include all of these plants.  Our Key is not so big as we are concerned only with the woody plants of East Texas.  And lucky for us, all of our wood bearing Angiosperms fall into only 2 groups.

If your plant has leaves with veins that run parallel (next to each other from leaf end to leaf end) Click Here.

If your plant.s leaves have veins that are more like a net, sort of crossing and reconnecting. Click Here.