What is Eudicots?
{{Taxobox | name = Eudicots | fossil_range = [[Lower Cretaceous]] {{ndash}} Recent | image = Primula aka.jpg | regnum = [[Plantae]] | divisio = [[Angiosperm]]s | unranked_classis = '''Eudicots''' | subdivision_ranks = Clades | subdivision = *[[Ranunculales]] *[[Sabiales]] *[[Proteales]] *[[Trochodendrales]] *[[Buxales]] *[[Gunnerales]] *Core eudicots: **[[Berberidopsidales]] **[[Dilleniales]] **[[Caryophyllales]] **[[Santalales]] **[[Saxifragales]] **[[Vitales]] **[[Rosids]] about 17 orders **[[Asterids]] about 13 orders }} '''Eudicots''' or '''eudicotyledons''' are a group of [[flowering plant]]s. They are one of two major [[clade]]s, the ''non-magnoliid dicots''. Their sister group is the [[Magnoliids]], a much smaller group.<ref>Endress, Peter K. 2002. Morphology and Angiosperm systematics in the molecular era. ''Botanical Review''. Structural botany in systematics: a symposium in memory of William C. Dickison. '''68''' (4): 545–570. [http://doc.rero.ch/record/313995/files/12229_2008_Article_684545.pdf]</ref> The [[Dicotyledon|dicot]]s and [[Monocotyledon|monocot]]s are the flowering plants which took over in the long [[Cretaceous]] period. They largely replaced the earlier types of plants. Of the old forests of the [[Mesozoic]] [[era]], only the [[conifers]] are still common today. The big groups of eudicots are the [[Rosids|rosid]]s and [[asterids]] (together 70% of angiosperms). [[Monocotyledon|Monocots]] make up most of the rest.<ref>Soltis, Douglas E.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Endress, Peter K.; Chase, Mark W. 2005. ''Phylogeny and evolution of Angiosperms''. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. ISBN 9780878938179</ref> A few examples of eudicots are [[forget-me-not]], [[cabbage]], [[apple]], [[dandelion]], [[buttercup]], [[maple]] and [[macadamia]]. The tree forms of [[flowering plant]]s evolved during the [[Cretaceous]] period. These began to displace the [[conifers]] during the [[Tertiary]] era (66 to 2 million years ago). Forests covered much of the globe before the climate cooled.<ref name=RFS>{{cite we