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Purple Ice Plant
Lampranthus productus
Lampranthus productus, commonly known as Purple Ice Plant, is a trailing succulent groundcover native to South Africa, belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is celebrated for its spectacular magenta-purple daisy-like flowers with white centers that bloom profusely in winter and spring, covering the fleshy blue-green foliage entirely. Exceptionally drought-tolerant, heat-resistant, and capable of withstanding coastal salt air and wind, it is widely planted on slopes, banks, and sunny gardens throughout Mediterranean climates worldwide.
Trailing Ice Plant
Lampranthus spectabilis
Lampranthus spectabilis, commonly called the trailing ice plant, is a low-growing succulent groundcover native to South Africa. Grown for its dazzling display of daisy-like magenta, pink, or purple flowers that open only in full sun, this mat-forming perennial thrives in poor, sandy soil and coastal conditions. Its fleshy, glistening leaves store water, making it highly drought tolerant once established.
Lantana
Lantana × strigocamara
Lantana × strigocamara is a vigorous garden hybrid between Lantana camara and L. strigocamara, naturalized widely across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. This evergreen shrub produces dense clusters of small tubular flowers that famously change color as they mature — from yellow or orange to red or pink — creating a multicolored display on a single flower head. A sun-loving, drought-tolerant plant, it is a favorite for butterfly gardens, borders, and containers. It is often confused with its parent species Lantana camara, from which it differs in subtle morphological details. Note: all plant parts are toxic to humans, cats, dogs, and livestock.
Common Lantana
Lantana camara
Lantana camara is a tropical perennial shrub native to the American tropics, widely cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant. Its small clusters of multicolored flowers — ranging from red, orange, and yellow to pink and white — attract butterflies and hummingbirds. While valued for its vibrant beauty and tolerance to heat and drought, Lantana is considered invasive in many tropical and subtropical regions outside its native range, and all parts of the plant are toxic to humans and pets.
Trailing Lantana
Lantana montevidensis
Trailing Lantana (Lantana montevidensis) is a sprawling, perennial groundcover native to South America (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina). It produces clusters of small purple-violet flowers in rounded umbels from spring through fall, making it a favorite for slopes, hanging baskets, and dry landscapes. Exceptionally drought-tolerant once established, it thrives in hot, sunny conditions with minimal care.
Everlasting Pea
Lathyrus latifolius
Lathyrus latifolius, commonly known as Everlasting Pea or Perennial Sweet Pea, is a vigorous climbing perennial native to Europe and North Africa. It produces showy pea-like flowers in shades of pink, white, rose, and purple from midsummer through fall, making it ideal for covering fences, trellises, and walls. Unlike the annual sweet pea, it is unscented but returns reliably year after year. Note: seeds are toxic and can cause lathyrism if consumed in large quantities.
Zig-zag bush
Launaea arborescens
A woody and thorny shrub, reaching up to 1 m in height, native to North Africa, southern Spain (primarily Almeria and Murcia), and the Canary Islands. It is characterized by glaucous-green, waxy branches that are highly branched in a zigzag pattern (divaricate growth), ending in rigid, sharp tips as a defense against herbivores. Leaves are sparse, fleshy, and inconspicuous, and the entire stem secretes a milky latex when broken. The flower heads are small and terminal, with light yellow florets similar to a miniature dandelion. It grows in arid scrublands, stony slopes, and dry riverbeds, from sea level up to approximately 800 m in altitude.
Lavender
Lavandula
Lavandula is a genus of aromatic flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, and northern Africa. Best known for its distinctive purple-blue flower spikes and calming fragrance, lavender is one of the world's most cultivated plants, prized for ornamental, medicinal, and aromatic uses. The most widely grown species is Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender). Lavender is a hardy, drought-tolerant, evergreen subshrub that thrives in full sun and well-drained, lean soils.
English Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is a fragrant perennial shrub native to the Mediterranean region of Europe. Beloved worldwide for its distinctive purple flower spikes and calming scent, it is one of the most widely cultivated aromatic plants, used in cosmetics, aromatherapy, culinary arts, and traditional medicine.
French Lavender
Lavandula dentata
Lavandula dentata, commonly known as French Lavender or Fringed Lavender, is an aromatic evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean region. It is recognized by its distinctive grey-green toothed leaves and tall purple bottlebrush flower spikes topped with sterile bracts. Highly drought-tolerant, fast-growing, and long-lived, it thrives in full sun with well-draining soil and is prized for its ornamental value, fragrance, and medicinal properties.
Lavender
Lavandula sp
Lavender (Lavandula sp) is a perennial aromatic shrub from the Lamiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean region. Celebrated for its distinctive fragrance and vibrant purple blooms, it is widely cultivated for ornamental, medicinal, and essential oil production. It thrives in hot, dry climates and is one of the most beloved aromatic plants in the world.
Spanish Lavender
Lavandula stoechas
Spanish Lavender (Lavandula stoechas) is a compact Mediterranean shrub known for its distinctive purple bracts resembling rabbit ears atop each flower spike. Its silvery, fragrant foliage resembles rosemary. Highly drought-tolerant once established, it thrives in full sun gardens and containers.
Lavandin
Lavandula x intermedia
Lavandin (Lavandula x intermedia) is a sterile hybrid between English lavender (L. angustifolia) and spike lavender (L. latifolia), widely grown across Provence for essential oil production and as a garden ornamental. It forms an aromatic, gray-green shrub with tall purple flower spikes from midsummer to early fall, attracting bees and butterflies.
Rose Mallow
Lavatera trimestris
Lavatera trimestris, commonly known as Rose Mallow or Annual Mallow, is a fast-growing annual plant native to the Mediterranean region. It produces an abundance of large, saucer-shaped flowers in shades of white, pink, and deep rose throughout summer and fall. Growing up to 3-4 feet tall, it is a stunning addition to cottage gardens and borders.
Henna
Lawsonia inermis
Henna (Lawsonia inermis) is a fast-growing evergreen shrub native to North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It can reach up to 7 meters in height in its natural habitat, with dense branches that develop thorns in mature specimens. Its small flowers, with a scent similar to tea rose, bloom in spring and summer in shades of white, cream, and pink. It is world-renowned for the reddish dye contained in its leaves, lawsone, used for millennia to decorate skin, hair, and nails. In addition to its enormous cosmetic and cultural value, the plant possesses well-documented medicinal properties. It thrives in warm climates, well-drained soils, and full sun, and is highly drought-tolerant once established.
Silver Squill
Ledebouria
Ledebouria is a genus of roughly 65 species of bulbous perennial herbs in the subfamily Scilloideae (family Asparagaceae), most of which were formerly classified within Scilla. Native mainly to sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa as the center of diversity, these geophytes form basal rosettes of lance-shaped leaves, frequently patterned with silver, purple, or green mottling, growing from teardrop-shaped bulbs that sit partly above the soil surface. The most widely cultivated species, Ledebouria socialis (silver squill/leopard lily), is prized as a low-maintenance houseplant for its decorative variegated foliage.
Cooper's False Scilla
Ledebouria cooperi
Ledebouria cooperi is a charming deciduous bulbous perennial native to South Africa. It produces narrow, lance-shaped leaves adorned with distinctive purple spots and stripes on an olive-green background, growing up to 25 cm tall. In spring and summer, it sends up graceful drooping racemes of small, star-shaped pink to lilac flowers. This low-maintenance bulb forms dense colonies through underground stolons and is prized as both a houseplant and garden specimen.
Silver Squill
Ledebouria socialis
Ledebouria socialis, commonly known as Silver Squill, is a charming bulbous houseplant native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It features striking lance-shaped leaves with silvery-green spotting on a purple-flushed underside, giving it a leopard-like pattern. The exposed teardrop-shaped bulbs sit above the soil surface, and in spring and summer it sends up delicate pink-and-green flower spikes. It is a remarkably low-maintenance plant that thrives on neglect, making it an ideal choice for beginner plant enthusiasts.
Red Leea
Leea guineensis
Leea guineensis, commonly known as Red Leea or West African Leea, is a lush tropical shrub belonging to the Vitaceae family, native to the tropical rainforests of West Africa and tropical Asia. It grows in a compact and upright manner, reaching up to 3 meters in height in cultivation. Its dense and glossy foliage often features shades of bronze, dark green, or deep burgundy, especially in the 'Rubra' variety. Under ideal conditions, it produces characteristic umbrella-shaped (umbel) inflorescences with small flowers ranging from red to orange and yellow, followed by rounded fruits that ripen from purple to scarlet red. It is an understory plant adapted to partial or full shade, making it excellent for spacious interiors, shaded tropical gardens, and as an ornamental specimen in pots.
Common Duckweed
Lemna minor
Common Duckweed (Lemna minor) is one of the smallest flowering plants in the world. It floats freely on the surface of still or slow-moving freshwater bodies, forming dense green mats. Cosmopolitan in distribution, it is found in ponds, lakes, and aquariums worldwide.
Lenophyllum acutifolium
Lenophyllum acutifolium
Lenophyllum acutifolium is a small perennial succulent from the Crassulaceae family, native to northeastern Mexico (Coahuila and Nuevo León) and southern Texas. It forms compact rosettes of fleshy, opposite, sharp-tipped leaves that range from olive green to coppery-bronze when exposed to full sun. It reaches about 4 to 6 inches in height and produces small greenish-yellow flowers in racemes on terminal stems. It is extremely easy to propagate: naturally fallen leaves root on their own in the substrate.
Lentil
Lens culinaris
The lentil (Lens culinaris) is an annual herbaceous legume of the Fabaceae family, growing up to approximately 45 cm tall, with a thin and branched stem. It produces small white, pinkish, or light blue flowers in clusters, followed by short pods containing one or two lens-shaped seeds. Cultivated since ancient times for its edible seeds rich in protein, iron, and fiber, it fixes atmospheric nitrogen like all legumes thanks to symbiotic bacteria present in root nodules.
Lion's ear
Leonotis nepetifolia
An annual or short-lived shrub in the Lamiaceae family, reaching 1 to 3 m in height, native to tropical Africa and widely naturalized in tropical regions worldwide. It is notable for its spherical, spiny inflorescences with tubular orange flowers that appear in summer and fall. It grows along roadsides and in abandoned fields, and can behave as an invasive weed.
Rough Hawkbit
Leontodon hispidus
Leontodon hispidus, commonly known as Rough Hawkbit, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae, native to grasslands and meadows across Europe and Asia. It produces dandelion-like yellow flower heads from June to September, making it a valuable nectar source for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Lesser Hawkbit
Leontodon saxatilis
Leontodon saxatilis, commonly known as Lesser Hawkbit or Hairy Hawkbit, is a low-growing perennial wildflower in the family Asteraceae. It forms a basal rosette of lobed, bristly-haired leaves from which emerge slender, leafless stems bearing solitary bright yellow flowerheads that closely resemble a small dandelion. Native to Europe and North Africa, it thrives in grassy habitats on sandy, calcareous or well-drained soils and flowers prolifically from June through October.
Five-lobed Motherwort
Leonurus quinquelobatus
Leonurus quinquelobatus is a perennial herbaceous medicinal plant belonging to the mint family (Lamiaceae), found across much of Eurasia, from Sakhalin to Central Europe and Italy. It is a close relative of Common Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), with which it is often confused, but its palmately divided leaves with five distinct lobes serve as a characteristic identifier. The plant can grow up to 1-1.5 meters tall, featuring square, pubescent stems and pale pink-purple flowers that bloom in axillary whorls between June and August. It thrives best in sunny to partially shaded locations with nutrient-rich, well-drained soil and can live in the same spot for decades. Traditionally known as 'heartwort' or 'strengthening herb,' its flowering shoots have been used since ancient times to soothe heart palpitations and support the female reproductive system.
Lesser Swinecress
Lepidium didymum
Lesser swinecress (Lepidium didymum, syn. Coronopus didymus) is an annual or biennial herb in the Brassicaceae family, native to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) and now naturalized throughout most of the world. It forms a basal rosette from which highly branched, decumbent or ascending stems emerge, reaching up to 40 cm in length. The leaves are alternate and pinnatifid with narrow segments, and the entire plant emits a strong, characteristic odor when crushed. The flowers are tiny, whitish or nearly petal-less, gathered in racemes, giving rise to the bilobed fruits typical of the Lepidium genus. It is common in disturbed ground, roadsides, gardens, lawns, and cultivated areas, where it behaves as a vigorous, fast-growing spontaneous plant.
Variable Sword-sedge
Lepidosperma laterale
Lepidosperma laterale is a tufted, clumping perennial sedge native to eastern and south-eastern Australia and New Zealand's North Island. Its rigid, flattened, glossy leaves grow 30-150 cm tall with reddish bases, forming dense evergreen tussocks. Loose, narrow flower panicles bearing brown spikelets appear mainly in spring and summer, followed by small pale-brown nuts. Naturally found on sandy soils and among rocks in heathy woodlands, open forests and riparian scrub, it is a resilient, low-maintenance plant valued for erosion control, habitat structure and naturalistic garden design.
Java fern
Leptochilus pteropus
An epiphytic fern native to Southeast Asia, living submerged or semi-submerged on rocks and roots along riverbanks. It grows from a dark green creeping rhizome that bears lanceolate, textured leaves about 8 inches long, reaching a total height of 6 to 12 inches. Extremely hardy, it is one of the easiest aquarium and paludarium plants to cultivate.
Leadtree
Leucaena leucocephala
Leucaena leucocephala is an extremely fast-growing leguminous tree native to Mexico and Central America. It is widely recognized for its delicate, feathery foliage, white globular flowers, and long seed pods. It is a valuable pioneer species for reclaiming degraded soils due to its nitrogen-fixing ability, although it can become invasive in tropical climates if not properly managed.
Shasta Daisy
Leucanthemum
Leucanthemum is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the Asteraceae family, native to Europe and Asia. The most cultivated species are L. × superbum (Shasta daisy) and L. vulgare (oxeye daisy). They produce classic white flowers with golden-yellow centers, blooming from spring through summer. Hardy, low-maintenance, and beloved in gardens and as cut flowers.
Shasta daisy
Leucanthemum × superbum
Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum × superbum) is a popular hybrid herbaceous perennial prized for its large white, daisy-like flowers with golden-yellow centers. Bred by horticulturist Luther Burbank, it blooms profusely from late spring through early fall and is relatively easy to grow.
Oxeye Daisy
Leucanthemum ircutianum
Leucanthemum ircutianum, commonly known as the oxeye daisy, is a herbaceous perennial in the Asteraceae family, native to Eurasia. It produces iconic white-petalled flowers with a golden-yellow central disc, blooming from spring through autumn. A hardy, low-maintenance wildflower, it is highly attractive to pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hoverflies.
Max Chrysanthemum
Leucanthemum maximum
Leucanthemum maximum, commonly known as the max chrysanthemum or great daisy, is a herbaceous perennial in the Asteraceae family, native to the Pyrenees mountains of France and Spain. It produces classic white daisy-like flowers with bright white ray petals surrounding a golden-yellow disc center, blooming from late spring through summer. This species is one of the parent plants used by horticulturist Luther Burbank to create the beloved Shasta daisy hybrid. It is widely grown in cottage gardens, borders, and as a long-lasting cut flower.
Oxeye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare
Leucanthemum vulgare, commonly known as the Oxeye Daisy, is a hardy perennial wildflower native to Europe, belonging to the Asteraceae family. It produces cheerful white ray flowers with a flattened yellow center disk, growing 30–90 cm tall. Blooming from spring through summer, it is a magnet for pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hoverflies. Though graceful in wildflower meadows and cottage gardens, it can spread vigorously and is considered invasive in parts of North America and Australia.
Flowerpot Parasol
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii is a saprophytic fungus commonly found in indoor plant pots and greenhouses. It is characterized by its vibrant yellow color and bell-shaped cap when young, which opens into a flat cap over time. While it does not harm plants (as it feeds only on dead organic matter in the soil), its presence indicates rich and moist soil.
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