Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (Crystalline ice plant)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Caryophyllidae	Cacti, many other succulents, carnivorous plants, and leadworts
Order	Caryophyllales	Includes cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, and many carnivorous plants
Family	Aizoaceae	Fig-marigold or ice plant family (previously Mesembryanthemaceae)
Genus	Mesembryanthemum	Either (1) derived from 2 words: mesos, “middle,” and embryon, “fruit,” indicating a flower with its fruit in the middle, and/or (2) afternoon-blooming. The original name was Mesembrianthemum, from mesembria or “mid-day” alluding to the belief that the species only bloomed in the sunlight. After night-blooming species were discovered, the spelling of the name was changed to its current form
Species	crystallinum	Crystalline, referring to the many ice-like bubbles on the herbage