caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, family Caryophyllaceae, pink family - large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)

pearl-weed, pearlweed, pearlwort - any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls