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Narrow-Leaf Fig
Ficus longifolia
Ficus longifolia, widely sold in the houseplant trade as the narrow-leaf fig (also known as Ficus Alii), is a tropical evergreen fig in the Moraceae family. Native to tropical regions of Africa and Asia, it is grown almost exclusively as an ornamental indoor tree, prized for its slender, glossy, lance-shaped leaves that give it a graceful, weeping silhouette distinct from broader-leaved ficus relatives. Like other figs, it produces its tiny flowers hidden inside an enclosed syconium (fig), so showy blooms are not part of its appeal - the foliage is the star. Indoors it can be trained into a small tree or braided-trunk form, reaching up to about 3 m (10 ft) in a container over many years.
Natal Fig
Ficus natalensis
Ficus natalensis, commonly known as the Natal fig, is an evergreen tree in the fig family (Moraceae), native to eastern and southern Africa, ranging from north-eastern South Africa up through Uganda and Kenya. In the wild it can grow from 10 to 30 meters tall, forming a wide-spreading crown with characteristic aerial roots typical of strangler figs. Its leaves are glossy, elliptical and leathery, and it bears small reddish or yellowish figs. Thanks to its vigorous growth, thickening trunk, and excellent tolerance to pruning and wiring, it has become one of the most popular species for bonsai cultivation and is also grown as a low-maintenance houseplant.
Punjab Fig
Ficus palmata
Ficus palmata, known as the Punjab Fig or Wild Himalayan Fig, is a tough deciduous fig native to the dry, rocky slopes of the western Himalayas, from Pakistan and northern India to Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula. Unlike its cultivated cousin Ficus carica, this wild fig thrives in poor, well-drained soil under full sun, producing small sweet fruits eaten fresh or dried by local communities.
Creeping Fig
Ficus pumila
Ficus pumila is a vigorous, fast-growing evergreen vine native to East Asia. Known for its ability to cling to walls and surfaces with aerial rootlets, this versatile plant produces small, heart-shaped leaves that create a lush green carpet. Indoors it makes an elegant trailing or climbing houseplant, while outdoors it serves as an excellent ground cover or wall climber in temperate and tropical climates.
Port Jackson Fig
Ficus rubiginosa
Ficus rubiginosa is an evergreen fig native to eastern Australia. It has glossy oval dark green leaves with rust-colored down on the underside and small round figs that ripen from yellow to red. In the wild it can become a large tree with a buttressed trunk, while indoors and as bonsai it stays compact and forgiving.
Fern Tree
Filicium decipiens
Filicium decipiens, commonly known as the Fern Tree, is a small to medium-sized tree native to East Africa and South Asia. It is widely appreciated in landscaping for its dense and elegant foliage, with pinnate leaves that resemble fern fronds. It features a rounded, symmetrical canopy with glossy green leaves and a distinctive winged rachis. It is an excellent choice for tropical gardens or as a statement plant in large pots for well-lit interiors.
pink thoroughwort
Fleischmannia incarnata
Pink thoroughwort is a native perennial wildflower in the aster family, forming a loosely branching, sprawling clump of catnip-like, triangular-to-heart-shaped leaves. From late summer into fall it produces flat-topped clusters of small, ray-less flower heads in soft pink to purple (occasionally whitish) shades that draw butterflies, skippers, and native bees. Native to the southeastern and south-central United States and northeastern Mexico, it grows naturally in moist woodlands, bottomland forests, thickets, and along streambanks, where its airy habit lets it lean informally against neighboring plants. Once established it tolerates both ordinary garden soil and the high-calcium soils that trouble many acid-loving shrubs.
White-Berry Bush
Flueggea virosa
Flueggea virosa, commonly known as the white-berry bush or simpleleaf bushweed, is a woody, multistemmed shrub of the Phyllanthaceae family, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia. It grows rapidly into dense thickets 2 to 4 meters tall, with slender branches that can appear thorn-like. Its flowers are small and creamy-green, understated but attractive to pollinators, followed by round, fleshy white berries that turn sweet upon ripening and are relished by birds and local wildlife. This extremely hardy plant tolerates drought and heat well, thriving even in poor, rocky soils, which makes it a valuable choice for low-maintenance landscaping, hedging, and land restoration projects. In traditional African medicine, its roots, bark, and fruits are widely used to treat snakebites, malaria, diarrhea, and inflammation.
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a hardy aromatic perennial herb in the Apiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean region. With feathery, anise-scented foliage and bright yellow umbel flowers in summer, it can reach up to 6 feet (180 cm) tall. Fennel is one of the most versatile herbs, prized for its culinary, medicinal, and ornamental value.
Willow moss
Fontinalis antipyretica
Willow moss (Fontinalis antipyretica) is an evergreen aquatic moss from the Fontinalaceae family that grows exclusively submerged in water—in streams, rivers, and lakes across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. It forms long, branched clumps with stiff, three-ranked leaves that can reach lengths of up to 60 cm. Instead of roots, it attaches itself to submerged stones, branches, and other hardscape using rhizoids. Due to its low maintenance and decorative appearance, it is a popular plant in cold-water and moderately tempered aquariums, where it also serves as a hiding place for shrimp and fry. The specific epithet "antipyretica" refers to the medieval use of this moss for extinguishing chimney fires.
Border Forsythia
Forsythia x intermedia
Forsythia x intermedia (Border Forsythia) is a fast-growing, deciduous ornamental shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae), a hybrid cross between Forsythia viridissima and Forsythia suspensa. In early spring, before the leaves emerge, its slender, arching branches are covered in dense, golden-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, making it one of the earliest and most striking indicators of spring in gardens. At maturity, it can reach 8 to 10 feet (2.5-3 meters) in height and 10 to 12 feet (3-3.5 meters) in width, and is frequently planted as a standalone specimen or as a hedge.
Musk Strawberry
Fragaria moschata
Fragaria moschata, commonly known as the musk strawberry or hautbois strawberry, is a herbaceous perennial in the rose family (Rosaceae), native to Central Europe and temperate Asia. It forms a clump- and mat-forming ground cover that spreads slowly by runners, producing small, deep red berries prized for an intensely aromatic flavor often described as a blend of strawberry, raspberry, and pineapple. Unlike modern garden strawberries, most musk strawberry plants are functionally dioecious, so both male (pollinator) and female/hermaphrodite plants are needed for good fruit set.
Wild Strawberry
Fragaria vesca
Fragaria vesca, commonly known as Wild Strawberry or Woodland Strawberry, is a delicate perennial native to Eurasia and North America. It produces small, intensely aromatic red fruits that are prized for their exceptional flavour — far superior in taste to cultivated varieties. Its white five-petalled flowers and tri-foliate leaves make it an attractive ground cover in gardens, meadows, and woodland edges.
Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Fragaria virginiana, commonly known as the Virginia Strawberry or Wild Strawberry, is a native North American perennial groundcover belonging to the Rosaceae family. Found from Newfoundland to Georgia and westward to Oklahoma, it is one of the two parent species of the modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). It forms low-growing colonies via stolons, producing small but intensely flavored red berries and delicate five-petaled white flowers in spring. It thrives in full sun to partial shade and is highly valued for erosion control, pollinator support, and edible landscaping.
Strawberry
Fragaria x ananassa
The strawberry plant (Fragaria x ananassa) is a perennial herbaceous plant known worldwide for its delicious red fruits. It features vibrant green trifoliate leaves and delicate white flowers that give rise to the berries.
Dwarf Frailea
Frailea pumila
Frailea pumila is a tiny cactus native to the grasslands of southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Belonging to the family Cactaceae, it rarely exceeds 5 cm in diameter. Its most remarkable trait is cleistogamous flowering: its yellow flowers develop, self-pollinate, and set seed without ever opening — a silent reproductive miracle adapted to unpredictable environments.
Ash (genus)
Fraxinus
Fraxinus is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous, though a few subtropical species are evergreen. Common species include European ash (F. excelsior), white ash (F. americana), and green ash (F. pennsylvanica). Ash trees are important landscape trees valued for their large canopy, autumn color, and timber.
White ramping fumitory
Fumaria capreolata
Fumaria capreolata, known as white ramping fumitory or climbing fumitory, is a scrambling annual herb in the poppy family (Papaveraceae), native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa and naturalized in parts of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere. Its finely divided, blue-green leaves and slender stems, reaching up to a metre long, clamber over walls, hedgerows, and low vegetation using twining leaf-stalks. From spring through summer, and into autumn in milder climates, it bears loose spikes of up to twenty tubular white-to-cream flowers tipped with deep maroon, which fade to pink once pollinated. Though valued in traditional herbal medicine, it is regarded as an environmental weed in several regions, where it can smother low-growing native plants.
Common fumitory
Fumaria officinalis
Common fumitory is an annual herbaceous plant reaching a height of 10–50 cm, native to Europe and North Africa, and a common weed in fields, gardens, and fallow lands. It is characterized by bluish-grey-green, finely divided, bipinnate leaves and clusters of pale pinkish-purple, spurred flowers with dark crimson tips. Its fruit is a nutlet that is wider than it is long, with a truncated apex.
Mauritius Hemp
Furcraea foetida
Mauritius Hemp (Furcraea foetida) is a perennial succulent plant native to the Caribbean and northern Central America, belonging to the Asparagaceae family. Recognized by its dramatic rosette of long sword-shaped leaves, it is a remarkably hardy plant widely grown as an ornamental in tropical and subtropical gardens. Its strong leaf fibers have historically been used to produce rope, textiles, and craft materials.
Liotard's Gagea
Gagea fragifera
Gagea fragifera is a small perennial bulbous plant, native to the alpine and subalpine regions of Europe and Asia. It is distinguished by its bright yellow star-shaped flowers that emerge shortly after the snow melts. Its leaves are linear and basal, adapted to the short growing seasons of high mountain environments.
Common Blanketflower
Gaillardia aristata
Common blanketflower is a hardy perennial wildflower native to the prairies and foothills of central North America. It forms low mounds of grayish-green, lance-shaped leaves topped from late spring through fall by daisy-like blooms in fiery combinations of yellow, red, orange and copper. Extremely drought tolerant once established, it thrives in poor, well-drained soil and full sun, making it a favorite for xeriscapes, pollinator gardens and cottage borders.
Indian Blanket
Gaillardia pulchella
Gaillardia pulchella, commonly called Indian Blanket or Firewheel, is a fast-growing annual (sometimes short-lived perennial) wildflower native to the central and southern United States and Mexico. Its daisy-like flower heads display concentric rings of red, orange, and yellow, resembling the patterned blankets woven by Native American peoples. Reaching 30-60 cm tall, it thrives in poor, sandy soils and blooms from summer through the first frost, attracting butterflies and pollinators.
Blanket Flower
Gaillardia x grandiflora
Gaillardia x grandiflora, commonly known as blanket flower, is a vigorous hybrid perennial native to North America. Its bold, daisy-like flowers in shades of red, orange, and yellow bloom from late spring through fall, making it one of the most colorful and low-maintenance ornamentals for sunny gardens. It is highly tolerant of heat, drought, and poor soils, thriving where many other plants struggle.
Hemp-nettles
Galeopsis
Hemp-nettles are the plants of the genus Galeopsis in the mint family (Lamiaceae), annuals native to Europe and Asia and naturalized in North America. They have square stems, usually bristly and swollen below the nodes, opposite toothed leaves that look like nettle leaves but do not sting, and from summer into autumn whorls of two-lipped flowers in pink, purple, white or pale yellow with a violet lip, as in G. speciosa. They grow in woodland clearings, field margins and damp waste ground, and several species are common weeds.
Splitlip Hempnettle
Galeopsis bifida
Splitlip hempnettle is a fast-growing annual wildflower in the mint family (Lamiaceae), native across Europe and temperate Asia and now widely naturalized in Canada, the northern United States, and Alaska. It grows as an erect, bristly-haired herb up to about a meter tall, with square stems noticeably swollen below the leaf nodes and opposite, serrated, ovate leaves. From midsummer into autumn it produces small, two-lipped tubular flowers in shades of purple, pink, or white, clustered densely near the stem tips -- the notched lower lip is what distinguishes it from its close relative, brittlestem hempnettle (Galeopsis tetrahit). A true colonizer, it thrives on disturbed ground, roadsides, field margins, and damp waste areas, producing thousands of long-lived seeds per plant. It has a history of use in Tibetan and Buryat folk medicine and is being studied for antioxidant phenolic compounds, though reports on its toxicity are mixed.
Gallant soldier
Galinsoga parviflora
Galinsoga parviflora is an annual herb in the Asteraceae family, native to South and Central America and now naturalized worldwide as a weed in gardens, crops, and disturbed soils. It reaches between 30 and 75 cm in height, featuring opposite leaves with serrated edges and small flowers with 3 to 8 white petals surrounding a yellow central disk. It is a very fast grower, completing its life cycle in just 50 days and producing thousands of seeds per plant. Despite being considered a weed, it is entirely edible and used as a culinary and medicinal herb in various cultures, most notably in Colombia (guascas for ajiaco).
White Bedstraw
Galium album
White bedstraw is a scrambling, perennial wildflower native to Europe and western Asia, from the same family as coffee (Rubiaceae). It forms sprawling mats of square, four-angled stems clothed in narrow, glossy leaves arranged in whorls, topped in early summer with airy clusters of tiny, honey-scented white flowers. Common in meadows, hedgerows, and calcareous grassland, it is valued in wildflower plantings for its long bloom period and value to pollinating insects.
Cleavers
Galium aparine
Galium aparine, commonly known as Cleavers, is a scrambling annual herbaceous plant. It is easily recognized by its whorled leaves and stems which are covered in tiny hooked bristles (trichomes), allowing it to 'stick' to surfaces, animals, and clothing. It produces tiny, star-shaped white or greenish flowers followed by small, burr-like fruits that also cling to fur and fabric for seed dispersal.
Hedge Bedstraw
Galium mollugo
Hedge bedstraw is a sprawling European perennial found along hedgebanks, woodland edges and grassy, calcareous slopes. Its square stems scramble through neighboring vegetation, bearing whorls of narrow leaves and airy clusters of tiny star-shaped white flowers from late spring through summer.
Mexican Goldshower
Galphimia glauca
Galphimia glauca, commonly known as Mexican Goldshower or Thryallis, is a compact evergreen shrub native to Mexico and Central America. It produces masses of small, bright yellow star-shaped flowers from spring through fall, creating a stunning display that attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Unlike Galphimia gracilis, this species features more rounded leaves with a distinctive blue-green underside. It is valued both as an ornamental garden shrub and for its use in traditional Mexican medicine.
Thryallis
Galphimia gracilis
Thryallis is a perennial and highly floriferous shrub, native to Mexico and Central America. Its vibrant yellow flowers emerge in terminal racemes and attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies. It is an extremely hardy and fast-growing plant, ideal for hedges or as a specimen plant in sunny gardens.
Gray Everlasting
Gamochaeta coarctata
Gamochaeta coarctata is an annual or biennial winter herbaceous herb, native to South America (from Colombia to Uruguay), and naturalized in parts of Eurasia, Australia, and North America. It is a low-growing plant (15-50 cm) with decumbent-ascending stems covered in dense white pubescence. The basal leaves form a rosette and are spatulate to oblanceolate. The flowers are arranged in a dense spike, with cylindrical heads containing a few yellow disc florets and no ray florets.
Gasteraloe
Gasteraloe
xGasteraloe is an intergeneric hybrid nothogenus produced by crossing Gasteria with Aloe (most often Gonialoe variegata or Aristaloe aristata). The result is a stemless to almost-stemless succulent that forms compact rosettes of thick, tongue-shaped leaves, usually spotted or marked and edged with small teeth. It combines Gasteria's slow, clustering growth habit with Aloe's vigor, and in spring and summer sends up tall spikes of tubular orange, red, or pink flowers that attract pollinators.
Gasteria (genus)
Gasteria
Gasteria is a genus of compact South African succulents, highly tolerant of drought and partial shade. Their thick, fleshy leaves form symmetrical rosettes or fan-like arrangements, often with spotted or mottled patterns.
Knoppies Oxtongue
Gasteria batesiana
Gasteria batesiana, known as the Knoppies Oxtongue, is a small, slow-growing succulent native to the hot, rocky river valleys of northern KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, and Mpumalanga in South Africa. Its thick, dark green leaves are covered in raised white tubercles arranged in transverse bands, giving the plant a distinctively bumpy, "knoppies" (knobby) texture. The stemless rosettes slowly form small clumps as they produce offsets from the base, and in spring arching stems bear tubular, soft pink flowers with pale green tips that attract sunbirds.
What are Easy Plants?
Easy Plants are ideal for beginners or people with little time for care. These species are tolerant of watering mistakes, light variations, and don't require constant attention. Perfect for those just starting out with plants.
Tips for Growing Easy Plants
To succeed with easy plants, remember: less is more. Avoid overwatering, choose a spot with adequate light, and let the soil dry between waterings. Most of these plants prefer to be 'forgotten' occasionally.