A dicot, short for dicotyledon, is a group of flowering plants distinguished by a set of characteristics, the main one being their two embryonic leaves (called cotyledons, which is where the name dicotyledon comes from - two leaves).
Thus, as sunflowers in their seed stage have two embryonic leaves, they are classified as dicots.
Dicots also have a sub-group called eudicots or tricolpates which sunflowers are part of. The name comes from the fact that these plants have tricolpate pollen, which has 3 or more pores.
Other distinguishing characteristics include their flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5 (rather than 3); the vascular bundles in the stem are arranged in a ring; stems have secondary growth (growing wider in diameter in addition to vertically); and major leaf veins are branched (rather than parallel). Sunflowers exhibit all of these characteristics, as they are part of the eudicot group.
A poinsettia plant is a dicot. This means that it has two seed leaves (cotyledons) when the seed germinates.
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The White Ash is a dicot belonging to class Magnoliopsida.