page_title: Caryophyllales
section_title: APG II
hierarchical_section_title: Caryophyllales / Circumscription / APG II
caption_attribution_description: English: Cactaceaeː Gymnocalycium Matoensea at Yale's Marsh Botanical Garden.
context_page_description: Caryophyllales is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, beets, and many carnivorous plants. Many members are succulent, having fleshy stems or leaves.
context_section_description: As circumscribed by the APG II system (2003), this order includes well-known plants like cacti, carnations, spinach, beet, rhubarb, sundews, venus fly traps, and bougainvillea.  Recent molecular and biochemical evidence has resolved additional well-supported clades within the Caryophyllales.
  order Caryophyllales
  family Achatocarpaceae
  family Aizoaceae
  family Amaranthaceae 
  family Anacampserotaceae (added in APG III)
  family Ancistrocladaceae
  family Asteropeiaceae
  family Barbeuiaceae
  family Basellaceae
  family Cactaceae
  family Caryophyllaceae
  family Didiereaceae
  family Dioncophyllaceae
  family Droseraceae
  family Drosophyllaceae
  family Frankeniaceae
  family Gisekiaceae
  family Halophytaceae
  family Limeaceae (added in APG III)
  family Lophiocarpaceae (added in APG III)
  family Molluginaceae 
  family Montiaceae (added in APG III)
  family Nepenthaceae
  family Nyctaginaceae
  family Physenaceae
  family Phytolaccaceae
  family Plumbaginaceae
  family Polygonaceae
  family Portulacaceae
  family Rhabdodendraceae
  family Sarcobataceae
  family Simmondsiaceae
  family Stegnospermataceae
  family Talinaceae (added in APG III)
  family Tamaricaceae
caption: Cactaceaeː Gymnocalycium Matoensea at Yale's Marsh Botanical Garden.
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