potato family - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum; Atropa; Brugmansia; Capsicum; Datura; Hyoscyamus; Lycopersicon; Nicotiana; Petunia; Physalis; Solandraasterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales genus Capsicum - chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers genus Lycium, Lycium - deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions genus Nierembergia - genus of tropical American erect or creeping herbs with solitary flowers genus Petunia - annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of tropical South America genus Salpiglossis - small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers |