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Brazilian Orchid Tree
Bauhinia forficata
Bauhinia forficata, commonly known as the Brazilian Orchid Tree or Cow's Hoof Tree, is a medium-to-large deciduous tree native to Brazil. It produces elegant white flowers resembling orchids in spring and summer and is renowned in traditional Brazilian medicine for its hypoglycemic properties, earning it the nickname "vegetable insulin."
Napoleon's Plume
Bauhinia monandra
Bauhinia monandra, commonly known as Napoleon's Plume or Pink Orchid Tree, is a medium-sized tropical tree in the Fabaceae family. Native to the tropical Americas, it is widely cultivated in gardens and parks for its spectacular flowers that transition from pale yellow to deep pink, each adorned with a distinctive streaked petal. In frost-free tropical and subtropical climates, it blooms for most of the year, making it a prized ornamental tree for landscaping.
Purple Orchid Tree
Bauhinia purpurea
The Purple Orchid Tree (Bauhinia purpurea) is a medium-sized ornamental tree native to southern China and Southeast Asia. Renowned for its spectacular purple-pink flowers resembling orchid blooms, it flowers primarily in fall and winter, providing rare color in cooler months. Its distinctive bilobed leaves resemble butterfly wings or cow hoofprints — a hallmark of the Bauhinia genus. As a legume, it fixes nitrogen in the soil, offering both ornamental and ecological value.
Ponytail Palm
Beaucarnea
Beaucarnea is a genus of slow-growing, drought-tolerant succulent trees native to the arid regions of eastern Mexico, prized for the bulbous, water-storing caudex at its base and the long, gracefully arching ribbon-like leaves that give it its "ponytail" look. Despite the common name, it is not a true palm but a member of the Asparagaceae family (subfamily Nolinoideae), most closely related to Dracaena and Nolina. The most widely cultivated species, Beaucarnea recurvata, is grown around the world as a low-maintenance houseplant and landscape specimen thanks to its resilience to neglect and infrequent watering.
Guatemalan Ponytail Palm
Beaucarnea guatemalensis
Beaucarnea guatemalensis, the Guatemalan ponytail palm, is a succulent-like plant native to Central America, prized for the bulbous caudex at the base of its trunk that stores water and grants excellent drought tolerance. Its long, thin, arching leaves emerge in a fountain-like burst reminiscent of a horse's tail. A slow grower, it is a popular low-maintenance houseplant valued for its sculptural form and resilience.
Ponytail Palm
Beaucarnea recurvata
The Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata) is a succulent plant native to Mexico, known for its bulbous trunk base that stores water and long, cascading leaves resembling a ponytail. Despite its common name, it is not a true palm but belongs to the Asparagaceae family. It is extremely hardy and long-lived, capable of surviving for hundreds of years in the wild.
Ottawa Barberry
Berberis × ottawensis
Berberis × ottawensis is a vigorous deciduous hybrid shrub, a natural cross between Berberis thunbergii and Berberis vulgaris. Known for its ornamental deep red-purple foliage in summer that turns vivid red in autumn, clusters of small yellow spring flowers, and bright red berries. Widely grown as a hardy hedge or specimen shrub.
Oregon Grape
Berberis aquifolium
The Oregon grape (Berberis aquifolium) is a robust, evergreen shrub native to western North America, reaching heights of 1 to 1.5 meters. Its glossy, spiny-toothed pinnate leaves resemble holly leaves and often take on an attractive purplish-red hue in winter. In early spring (March–May), it produces bright yellow, lightly fragrant flower panicles that serve as a valuable food source for early insects. These are followed in summer by blue-black, glaucous berries that are rich in vitamin C and can be processed into jelly or juice. Thanks to its tolerance for shade, drought, and urban conditions, it is one of the easiest evergreen shrubs to maintain in temperate gardens.
Narrowleaf Oregon Grape
Berberis eurybracteata
Berberis eurybracteata, long sold under its former name Mahonia eurybracteata, is an evergreen shrub of the barberry family native to China. It forms an upright, clumping habit with graceful, glossy dark green pinnate leaves made up of slender leaflets. In late summer and autumn it carries erect spires of small, fragrant yellow flowers, which are followed by blue-black berries. The popular cultivar Soft Caress stays compact at roughly 1.2 m in height and spread, and its leaflets are narrow and largely spine-free, so it is much easier to handle than typical mahonias. It gives a fine, architectural texture in shady borders, woodland gardens and containers, and it is valued for late-season colour when few other shrubs are in flower.
Japanese Barberry
Berberis thunbergii
Berberis thunbergii, or Japanese barberry, is a compact, deciduous shrub native to Japan prized for its dense thorny branching, small oval leaves (green, purple, or gold depending on cultivar), and bright red berries that persist into winter. Clusters of pale yellow flowers appear in mid-spring before the foliage fully unfurls. While it is a tough, low-maintenance landscape plant valued for hedging and erosion control, it has become invasive across parts of the northeastern and midwestern United States and eastern Canada, where it escapes cultivation, crowds out native understory plants, and creates humid microhabitats favored by ticks; several states restrict or ban its sale and planting.
Heart-leaved Bergenia
Bergenia crassifolia
Bergenia crassifolia is a perennial evergreen plant native to Siberia, Mongolia, and Central Asia. It is recognized by its large, leathery, glossy leaves that turn reddish or bronze in winter. The plant blooms in early spring with beautiful pink, purple, or white flower clusters. It is extremely hardy and can survive temperatures as low as –30 °C.
Curry Leaf Tree
Bergera koenigii
The curry leaf tree (Bergera koenigii, synonym Murraya koenigii) is an aromatic shrub or small tree in the citrus family Rutaceae, native to South Asia. Its glossy, pinnately compound leaves are intensely fragrant and are a staple seasoning in Indian and Southeast Asian cooking, typically fried fresh in oil at the start of a dish. The plant bears small fragrant white flowers followed by ornamental black berries. It has a medium growth rate, tolerates drought once established, but is sensitive to frost.
Gold-flowered Bergeranthus
Bergeranthus multiceps
A low-growing, compact succulent native to the sandstone outcrops of the Eastern Cape in South Africa, belonging to the Aizoaceae (mesembs) family. It forms dense clumps of triangular, fleshy, and sub-erect leaves, alluding to its name 'multiceps' (multiple heads). In spring and summer, it produces striking yellow daisy-like flowers that only open in direct sunlight and close at night or on cloudy days.
Beetroot
Beta vulgaris
Beta vulgaris is a versatile plant species in the Amaranthaceae family, native to Europe, Western Asia, and the North African coast. It includes several cultivar groups: table beet (edible root), Swiss chard (edible leaves and stems), sugar beet, and mangelwurzel. It is a biennial vegetable grown worldwide for its nutritional value and ease of cultivation.
Wood Betony
Betonica officinalis
Wood betony (Betonica officinalis, syn. Stachys officinalis) is a perennial herb in the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to Europe, where it grows wild in grasslands, along hedgerows, and in open woodlands. The plant forms a dense rosette of heart-shaped, rough basal leaves and an upright, slightly hairy stem reaching 30-70 cm in height. From June to August, it bears dense spikes of purple-red to pink tubular flowers, which are highly attractive to bees and other pollinators. Wood betony has a long history as a medicinal plant and was considered in the Middle Ages to be able to cure almost anything—hence the old proverb 'sell your cow and buy betony'.
Silver Birch
Betula pendula
The Silver Birch (Betula pendula) is an elegant, fast-growing deciduous tree and one of Europe's most light-demanding forest trees. It reaches heights of up to 25 meters and is known for its characteristic white, peeling bark and its fine, drooping branches. As a pioneer species, it colonizes open spaces and disturbed sites as one of the first tree species. In autumn, its diamond-shaped leaves turn a vibrant yellow. The birch thrives in sandy, moderately dry to fresh soils with a slightly acidic pH and tolerates harsh winters down to -40 °C.
Downy Birch
Betula pubescens
Betula pubescens, known as downy birch or moor birch, is a fast-growing deciduous tree native to northern Europe and Asia. It features smooth, dull grey-white bark marked with dark lenticels, and small serrated, diamond-shaped leaves that turn golden yellow in autumn. As one of the most cold-hardy broadleaf trees in the world, it thrives in cool, moist climates and is often the first tree species to colonize open ground after disturbance.
Bidens
Bidens
The Bidens genus consists of extremely versatile and resilient plants belonging to the Asteraceae family. In Brazil, Black-jack (Bidens pilosa) is widely known for its medicinal properties, while Bidens ferulifolia is a garden favorite for its bright yellow flowers that attract pollinators. Its seeds have characteristic hooks that attach to surfaces, facilitating dispersal.
Devil's Beggarticks
Bidens frondosa
Bidens frondosa, commonly known as Devil's Beggarticks or Devil's Pitchfork, is a fast-growing annual wildflower native to North America. It belongs to the Asteraceae family and thrives in moist, sunny environments such as riverbanks, ditches, and disturbed grounds. The plant produces small golden-yellow to orange disc flowers from late summer through fall, followed by distinctive barbed seed heads that cling to clothing and animal fur — giving rise to its colorful common names.
Blackjack
Bidens pilosa
Bidens pilosa, commonly known as blackjack or hairy beggarticks, is an annual herb in the Asteraceae family, native to tropical America and now naturalized as a common weed across the globe. It grows up to 1.8 m tall, with white-and-yellow daisy-like flowers and barbed seeds that cling easily to clothing and animal fur. It is widely valued in traditional medicine and also eaten as a wild leafy vegetable.
Billbergia (genus)
Billbergia
Billbergia is a genus of bromeliads native primarily to South America, widely cultivated as ornamental plants for their evergreen rosettes and colorful tubular flowers. The most popular species, B. nutans, is commonly known as Queen's Tears.
Queen's Tears
Billbergia nutans
Billbergia nutans, commonly known as Queen's Tears or Friendship Plant, is an epiphytic bromeliad native to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. It forms tubular rosettes of arching grey-green leaves with serrated margins, producing pendant flower spikes with vivid rose-pink bracts and petals combining blue-violet, green, and yellow. It is considered one of the easiest bromeliads to grow and thrives both indoors and outdoors in mild climates.
Flaming Torch
Billbergia pyramidalis
Billbergia pyramidalis, commonly called flaming torch or foolproof plant, is an epiphytic or terrestrial bromeliad native to northern South America and the Caribbean. It forms a compact rosette of glossy green leaves and produces a pyramidal scarlet-red inflorescence with violet and yellow highlights, typically in late summer or early autumn. It is a tough, low-maintenance plant popular in tropical gardens and decorative pots.
Annatto
Bixa orellana
Bixa orellana, commonly known as annatto or the lipstick tree, is a fast-growing tropical shrub or small tree native to Brazil and tropical America. It is prized for its spiny reddish seed pods containing bixin-rich seeds, a natural orange-red pigment widely used as a food coloring and in cosmetics. The plant produces beautiful pink flowers and is equally valued as an ornamental and as a commercial crop.
Chinese Ground Orchid
Bletilla striata
Bletilla striata, known as the Chinese ground orchid or hyacinth orchid, is a hardy deciduous terrestrial orchid native to China, Japan, and Korea. Unlike tropical orchids, it grows directly in garden soil, producing pleated, lance-shaped leaves and upright spikes of purple-pink, hyacinth-like flowers in spring and early summer.
Red Spiderling
Boerhavia diffusa
Boerhavia diffusa is a sprawling, pantropical perennial herb with prostrate to semi-erect, much-branched stems and fleshy taproots. Tiny pink flowers, only about 5mm across, appear in loose clusters almost year-round wherever moisture is adequate. Best known by its Sanskrit name "punarnava" ("that which renews"), it is one of the most widely used plants in Ayurvedic medicine, and its tender young leaves are cooked as a leafy green vegetable across India and the tropics.
Cleistocactus
Borzicactus
Borzicactus is a genus of columnar or prostrate cacti native to the Andes of South America (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina), often treated as a synonym of Cleistocactus or included within Loxanthocereus. Its stems, densely covered with fine spines, can grow upright or form hanging clumps. It produces very showy tubular flowers - usually red, orange, or pink - adapted for hummingbird pollination. It is a long-lived, drought-resistant, slow-growing plant, highly valued in cactus collections for its sculptural form.
Yellow Bluestem
Bothriochloa ischaemum
Yellow bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum) is a perennial, bunch-forming grass belonging to the Poaceae family. Originally native to the dry steppes of Southern Europe and Western Asia, it has since spread globally and is considered an invasive species in many regions. It grows in loose tufts with erect stems reaching 30–100 cm in height, featuring grayish-green foliage that turns a distinctive brownish-red in the fall. Thanks to its strong, deep-reaching root system, it is exceptionally drought-tolerant and resistant to trampling, making it a frequent choice for roadside embankments and erosion control. During summer and autumn, it produces yellowish inflorescences followed by reddish-brown seed heads.
Signal Grass
Brachiaria decumbens
Signal grass (Brachiaria decumbens) is a vigorous perennial tropical grass native to central and east Africa, belonging to the Poaceae family. Widely naturalized across tropical regions, it is one of the most important pasture grasses in South America, particularly Brazil. It forms dense, fast-spreading mats via stolons and rhizomes, tolerating poor, acidic soils and seasonal drought.
Kurrajong
Brachychiton populneus
The Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus) is a hardy, evergreen tree native to eastern Australia, prized for its distinctive bottle-shaped trunk that stores water, its glossy poplar-like leaves, and its resilience to drought. It produces creamy-white, bell-shaped flowers streaked with pink or purple in spring and summer, followed by woody seed pods.
Mediterranean False Brome
Brachypodium retusum
Brachypodium retusum is a tough, drought-resistant perennial grass native to the Mediterranean basin. It forms dense tufts of narrow, glaucous leaf blades that remain green year-round. Ecologically significant, it is the first grass to resprout after wildfires, making it vital for soil stabilization and habitat recovery across Mediterranean scrubland and garrigue. Its pale yellow-green spikelets bloom from spring to early summer, adding natural texture and movement to dry gardens.
Swan River Daisy
Brachyscome iberidifolia
Brachyscome iberidifolia, commonly known as the Swan River Daisy, is a charming Australian annual herb. It is highly valued for its delicate, fern-like foliage and a profusion of small, daisy-like flowers that appear in vibrant shades of blue, purple, pink, and white. Growing in a compact, mounding habit, it is a favorite for borders, rock gardens, and hanging baskets.
Brazilian Tree Cactus
Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis
Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis, commonly known as the Brazilian Tree Cactus, is a monotypic tree-like cactus native to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. It is the sole species of the genus Brasiliopuntia and stands out for its arborescent structure — a woody cylindrical trunk topped with flattened cladodes on branch tips — which can reach over 20 meters in its natural habitat.
Brassica
Brassica
The genus Brassica comprises more than 30 species of herbaceous plants in the Brassicaceae family, including some of the most widely consumed vegetables in the world: kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, mustard, and turnip. Native to Europe and Asia, these annual or biennial plants adapt to cool and temperate climates, producing nutrient-rich leaves and characteristic four-petaled yellow or white flowers that gave the family its name.
Rapeseed
Brassica napus
Brassica napus, widely known as rapeseed or canola, is a fast-growing herbaceous plant famous for its vast fields of vibrant yellow flowers. It is one of the world's most important oilseed crops, used for the production of edible vegetable oil, biodiesel, and animal feed. Its young leaves are edible and nutrient-rich, resembling kale.
Kale
Brassica oleracea var. acephala
Kale is a leafy, nutritious herbaceous vegetable belonging to the Brassicaceae family. It is extremely hardy and valued worldwide as a superfood, being rich in iron, calcium, and vitamins A, C, and K. Its leaves can range from light green to purple, depending on the variety.
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