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Japanese Spiraea
Spiraea japonica
Japanese Spiraea (Spiraea japonica) is a deciduous shrub belonging to the rose family (Rosaceae), native to East Asia, specifically Japan, China, and Korea. It forms a dense, rounded shrub and blooms in summer with abundant pink or white flower clusters. This hardy and easy-to-maintain species is ideal for garden plantings and hedges.
Willowleaf Spiraea
Spiraea salicifolia
Willowleaf Spiraea (Spiraea salicifolia) is an upright, dense, and fast-growing shrub belonging to the rose family, known for its narrow, willow-like leaves and pink or white, spike-like flower clusters. It blooms profusely throughout the summer and is very winter-hardy (USDA Zones 4a–8b), making it excellent for northern climates. The plant spreads effectively via root suckers, forming dense thickets, which is why it is also used as ground cover and for erosion control on moist slopes.
Great Duckweed
Spirodela polyrhiza
Great Duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) is a tiny free-floating aquatic plant from the Arum family (Araceae, subfamily Lemnoideae). Its round to oval fronds measure only 2–10 mm; they are fresh green on the upper side and reddish-purple on the underside. Unlike related duckweed species, each frond produces 7 to 21 thin roots (instead of the usual one), allowing it to float easily on the surface of stagnant or slow-moving waters and form dense mats. It reproduces primarily vegetatively by budding new fronds from the mother plant, flowering only rarely. In autumn, it produces turions—starch-rich storage buds that sink to the bottom to overwinter, resurfacing and germinating in spring when water temperatures reach around 15 °C. It is one of the fastest-growing flowering plants in the world and is found in the wild almost globally.
Yellow Mombin
Spondias mombin
Yellow Mombin (Spondias mombin) is a fast-growing tropical tree in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical America including the West Indies, Central America, and South America. It can reach up to 25 metres tall with a broad, irregular crown and deciduous foliage. The small, ovoid yellow fruits are edible and widely used in juices, sherbets, and jellies across tropical regions.
Red Mombin
Spondias purpurea
Red Mombin (Spondias purpurea) is a fast-growing deciduous tropical fruit tree in the Anacardiaceae family, native to Central America and Mexico. It can reach up to 15 meters in height and is prized for its small, aromatic red or purple fruits with a sweet-tart flavor. The tree sheds its leaves during the dry season and often flowers and fruits before the new leaves emerge in spring. Highly drought-tolerant once established, it is a staple fruit tree across Mesoamerica.
Prairie dropseed
Sporobolus
Sporobolus is a genus of ornamental and native grasses in the Poaceae family, with approximately 150-200 species distributed across temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions. The most prized ornamental species is Sporobolus heterolepis (prairie dropseed), which forms dense, arching clumps of fine, thread-like leaves that are bright green in summer and turn golden-orange in autumn. In summer and fall, it produces airy panicles of pinkish-brown flowers with a distinctive fragrance. It is a very hardy plant, tolerant of drought, poor soils, and clay, making it ideal for prairie gardens and naturalistic borders.
Lamb's Ear
Stachys
Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina) is a low-growing, mat-forming perennial in the mint family (Lamiaceae), celebrated for its striking silvery-white, densely woolly leaves that feel as soft as velvet. Native to Turkey, Armenia, and Iran, this hardy plant thrives in sunny, dry garden borders and is beloved in cottage gardens, sensory gardens, and water-wise landscapes. It produces upright spikes of small pink-purple flowers in late spring and summer, though it is primarily grown for its distinctive textured foliage.
Lamb's Ear
Stachys byzantina
Stachys byzantina is a herbaceous perennial famous for its leaves densely covered in silky white hairs, which give it a velvety texture and a unique silvery color. Native to the Middle East, it forms dense, low mats, making it an excellent groundcover. In summer, it produces upright stems with small purple flowers, although it is primarily grown for its exotic foliage that resembles lamb's ears.
Blue Snakeweed
Stachytarpheta cayennensis
Blue Snakeweed (Stachytarpheta cayennensis) is a fast-growing tropical subshrub native to tropical America, belonging to the Verbenaceae family. It produces long, slender flower spikes adorned with vivid blue-purple tubular flowers that bloom successively over many months. A magnet for pollinators, it attracts over 98 butterfly species, bees, and hummingbirds. It is widely used as an ornamental garden plant and holds significant importance in traditional medicine throughout the tropics.
Zulu Giant
Stapelia gigantea
Stapelia gigantea, commonly known as the Zulu Giant or Carrion Flower, is a striking succulent native to South Africa. It produces enormous star-shaped flowers up to 30 cm across with a distinctive reddish-maroon and cream pattern. The flowers emit a carrion-like odor to attract flies for pollination. Its leafless, ribbed succulent stems grow in dense clumps and turn reddish-purple in bright sunlight.
Starfish Flower
Stapelia grandiflora
Stapelia grandiflora, commonly known as the Starfish Flower or Carrion Plant, is a fascinating succulent native to South Africa. It produces striking star-shaped flowers up to 10 inches across, covered in fine hairs. The flowers emit a carrion scent to attract flies as pollinators, making it a remarkable botanical curiosity and a prized plant among succulent collectors.
Common Chickweed
Stellaria
Stellaria is a genus of roughly 120 low-growing herbaceous plants in the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae), best known through its most common and widespread member, Stellaria media, or common chickweed. This sprawling, mat-forming annual produces tender oval leaves and tiny star-shaped white flowers (its genus name comes from the Latin "stella," meaning star). Chickweed thrives in cool, moist conditions and is one of the fastest-growing plants in temperate gardens, often flowering and setting seed within weeks of germination. It is naturalized nearly worldwide and is valued both as a nutritious wild edible and as a traditional skin-soothing herb, even though gardeners often treat it as a weed.
Chickweed
Stellaria media
Stellaria media, commonly called chickweed, is a low-growing, sprawling annual (or winter annual) native to Europe and now naturalized worldwide. It forms soft mats of small oval leaves and tiny white star-shaped flowers, thriving in cool, moist, disturbed soil such as garden beds, lawns, and greenhouses. Prized both as a cottage-garden ground cover and as one of the most popular wild edible and medicinal weeds, chickweed grows and flowers almost year-round in temperate climates.
Brain Cactus
Stenocactus phyllacanthus
Stenocactus phyllacanthus is a small, solitary, globose to short-cylindrical cactus native to the high-desert scrublands of central and northern Mexico (Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas), typically found between 1,700 and 2,800 m elevation. Rarely exceeding 15 cm in height and 10 cm in diameter, it is prized by collectors for its dramatically wavy, paper-thin ribs crowned with dense tufts of fine spines. In spring and summer it bears funnel-shaped, yellowish-white flowers with brownish-red throats near the crown. Slow-growing and undemanding, it is one of the easiest Stenocactus species to bring into flower in cultivation.
Organ Pipe Cactus
Stenocereus
Stenocereus is a genus of large, tree-like columnar cacti native to the deserts of Mexico and the southwestern United States. The best-known species, Stenocereus thurberi (organ pipe cactus), forms clusters of slender, upright stems rising from a short trunk, resembling the pipes of a musical organ. Ribbed, spiny stems can reach up to 8 m tall and 3.5 m wide, producing white, night-blooming flowers followed by spiny, sweet edible fruit.
St. Augustine Grass
Stenotaphrum secundatum
St. Augustine Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) is a fast-growing warm-season turfgrass native to the Gulf of Mexico region, widely used for residential and commercial lawns in tropical and subtropical climates. It forms a dense, vigorous carpet with good tolerance to partial shade and coastal salt exposure.
European feather grass
Stipa pennata
European feather grass (Stipa pennata) is a characteristic clump-forming perennial grass of the Eurasian steppes, native from Mongolia to the Hungarian Great Plain and the sandy, loess steppes of the Carpathian Basin. Growing 60-90 cm tall, it produces narrow, slender leaves and, between May and August, releases the long, silvery-silky, feathery awns that made the species famous, waving characteristically in the wind. It is an increasingly rare species in Hungary, tied to protected habitats, and has been a symbol of the Hungarian puszta since the national romantic era of poets Sándor Petőfi and Mihály Tompa.
Mexican feather grass
Stipa tenuissima
Stipa tenuissima, commonly known as Mexican feather grass, is a perennial ornamental grass forming dense, rounded tufts of fine, bright green thread-like leaves. In summer, it produces long, feathery panicles that transition from silvery-green to cream and then to golden blond, swaying with the slightest breeze. Hardy in USDA zones 7 to 10, this grass reaches 12 to 24 inches in height and width, and is particularly valued for xeriscaping, rock gardens, and naturalist-style borders.
Stokes' Aster
Stokesia laevis
Stokesia laevis, commonly known as Stokes' Aster, is a herbaceous perennial native to the wetlands, bottomlands, and pine savannas of the southeastern United States. It produces showy, cornflower-like blooms in shades of lavender-blue, purple, white, and pink, making it a beloved addition to native and cottage gardens. Despite its origins in moist habitats, it adapts remarkably well to average garden conditions and is notably drought-tolerant once established.
Bacopa
Sutera cordata
Sutera cordata (syn. Chaenostoma cordatum) is a fast-growing ornamental plant from the Scrophulariaceae family, native to South African wetlands. It is characterized by small, dark green, opposite leaves with slightly serrated edges and tiny white star-shaped flowers with yellow-orange centers. It is ideal for hanging baskets, containers, and as a groundcover due to its trailing growth habit. It is known for its rapid growth and profuse blooming throughout summer and fall.
Queen Palm
Syagrus romanzoffiana
The Queen Palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana) is a stately feather palm native to Brazil and South America, belonging to the family Arecaceae. Prized for its graceful arching fronds and slender trunk, it is one of the most popular landscape palms in subtropical and tropical regions worldwide. It can reach heights of 10-15 meters and produces clusters of bright orange fruits that attract wildlife.
White Panicle Aster
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum, commonly known as White Panicle Aster, is a native North American perennial wildflower in the Asteraceae family. Formerly classified as Aster lanceolatus, it produces masses of small daisy-like white flowers with yellow disc centers from mid-summer through fall, reaching up to 1.5 meters tall. A vital late-season pollinator plant, it thrives in moist, sunny conditions and spreads via rhizomes.
New York Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii, commonly called the New York aster or Michaelmas daisy, is a hardy herbaceous perennial native to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, often found in wet meadows and abandoned fields near the coast. Valued for its abundant daisy-like flower heads in shades of purple, pink, and white surrounding bright yellow centers, it blooms from late summer through fall, often peaking around Michaelmas (September 29). Growing 3-5 feet (90-150cm) tall, it thrives in sunny garden borders and wildlife gardens, attracting bees, butterflies -- including Pearl Crescents, for which it is a host plant -- and seed-eating songbirds.
Shore Aster
Symphyotrichum tradescantii
Symphyotrichum tradescantii, commonly known as Shore Aster or Tradescant's Aster, is a native perennial wildflower of northeastern North America. This deciduous herbaceous plant produces an abundance of small, daisy-like flowers with white ray florets and pale yellow to purple disk florets in late summer and fall. It grows naturally along rocky shores, riverbanks, and freshwater estuaries, thriving in full sun to partial shade and moist soils. An excellent choice for naturalistic gardens, rain gardens, and native plant landscapes.
Japanese Tree Lilac
Syringa reticulata
Japanese Tree Lilac (Syringa reticulata) is a small to medium-sized ornamental tree native to Japan and northeastern Asia. It stands out for its enormous creamy-white fragrant flower panicles that appear in early summer, blooming up to six weeks after most other lilacs have finished. With cherry-like bark and exceptional urban tolerance, it is one of the most versatile and low-maintenance ornamental trees for gardens and streetscaping.
Syzygium (genus)
Syzygium
Syzygium is a large genus of tropical and subtropical evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, comprising over 1,000 species native to Asia, Australia, and Africa. The genus includes economically and culturally significant species such as clove (S. aromaticum), jambolan (S. cumini), and rose apple (S. samarangense). These are hardy plants with dense, glossy foliage that produce edible fruits and aromatic flowers.
Magenta Cherry
Syzygium paniculatum
Syzygium paniculatum, known as Magenta Cherry or Brush Cherry, is an evergreen shrub and small tree native to the rainforests of eastern Australia (New South Wales). It bears glossy dark green leaves with attractive bronze-red new growth, clusters of white flowers in spring and summer, and distinctive magenta-coloured edible berries. Formerly classified as Eugenia paniculata, it is widely grown as a hedging plant, topiary subject, and ornamental specimen across subtropical and warm temperate regions worldwide.
Pink Toad Cactus
Tacinga
Tacinga is a genus of cacti native to the Caatinga biome of northeastern Brazil, belonging to the family Cactaceae (subfamily Opuntioideae). Closely related to Opuntia, it includes species such as T. inamoena and T. funalis, perfectly adapted to semi-arid conditions. It produces colorful flowers and edible fruits, and is an iconic symbol of Brazil's endemic flora.
Signet Marigold
Tagetes tenuifolia
Signet marigold (Tagetes tenuifolia) is a compact, mounding annual native to Mexico and Central America, prized for its lacy, lemon-scented foliage and abundance of small single flowers in yellow, orange, and gold. It blooms profusely from early summer through fall and is a popular edging and companion plant.
Waterleaf
Talinum fruticosum
Waterleaf (Talinum fruticosum) is a fast-growing tropical perennial leafy vegetable native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, now widely cultivated across West Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and tropical regions worldwide. Its broad, succulent leaves have a mildly tangy, slightly sour flavor and become tender when cooked. It is a staple ingredient in West African soups and stews, and is valued in Brazilian Amazonian cooking as "cariru." The plant is exceptionally easy to grow, thrives in heat, tolerates poor soils, and produces leaves almost continuously in warm climates.
Jewels of Opar
Talinum paniculatum
Jewels of Opar (Talinum paniculatum) is a succulent perennial herb native to tropical Americas, including Brazil. It produces delicate pink flowers on airy panicles that resemble a miniature baby's breath, making it a charming ornamental plant. The fleshy, nutrient-rich leaves are edible and recognized as an unconventional food plant (PANC in Brazil), rich in protein, iron, potassium, and magnesium. Extremely drought-tolerant, it thrives in full sun with minimal care and self-seeds readily.
Tamarind
Tamarindus indica
Tamarindus indica is a majestic tropical tree, known for its dense canopy and pod-shaped fruits containing a highly prized sweet and sour pulp. Its leaves are pinnate and delicate, closing at night. It is a long-lived species that can reach large proportions in warm climates.
Athel tamarisk
Tamarix aphylla
Tamarix aphylla, known as the Athel tamarisk or Athel pine, is the largest representative of the Tamarix genus, capable of reaching 18 meters in height. It is an evergreen tree with leaves reduced to grayish-green scales, adapted to excrete salt through specialized leaf glands, forming crystals on the surface. Native to North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, it is widely cultivated in arid regions as a windbreak, shade plant, and for soil stabilization. Its small white or pink flowers, gathered in spikes, bloom from late summer to autumn, providing valuable nectar for bees.
French Tamarisk
Tamarix gallica
French Tamarisk (Tamarix gallica) is a fast-establishing, salt-tolerant deciduous shrub or small tree native to the Mediterranean basin and parts of the Middle East. Valued for its feathery, blue-green scale-like foliage and airy plumes of pale pink flowers that appear in late spring and again in summer, it is widely planted in coastal gardens, hedgerows and dune-stabilization projects thanks to its remarkable tolerance of wind, salt spray, drought and poor soils.
Dandelion
Taraxacum
Taraxacum is a genus of flowering perennials in the daisy family (Asteraceae), comprising over 2,000 recognized species and microspecies worldwide, most reproducing by apomixis. This profile covers the genus at a general level, using the emblematic and most widespread species, Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion), as the reference for care data. Recognizable by its rosette of toothed leaves, solitary yellow flower heads, and globe-shaped seed puffballs, Taraxacum is both a common lawn weed and a valued edible and medicinal plant.
Horned Dandelion
Taraxacum ceratophorum
Taraxacum ceratophorum, commonly known as the horned dandelion, is a herbaceous perennial native to alpine and subalpine zones across the Northern Hemisphere. It is distinguished by its distinctive swollen red-tinged phyllary tips resembling horns, which give the plant its common name. It grows in alpine meadows, fellfields, and rocky slopes up to 3,000 meters elevation, and is considered the most widespread native dandelion in North America.
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