Solanales

Solanales, potato order of flowering plants, including five families with 165 genera and more than 4,080 species. Two of the families are large and contain some of the most highly cultivated plants: Solanaceae (nightshades) and Convolvulaceae (morning glories).

Solanales belongs to the core asterid clade (organisms with a single common ancestor), or sympetalous lineage of flowering plants, in the euasterid I group of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (APG III) botanical classification system (see angiosperm). The order is most closely related to Lamiales and Gentianales.