Complete Plant Guide

Coreopsis grandiflora, commonly known as Coreopsis or Tickseed, is a perennial plant native to North America, belonging to the Asteraceae family. Its radiant golden flowers bloom from late spring through summer, attracting pollinators such as bees and butterflies. It is an extremely hardy, drought-tolerant plant that is easy to grow.

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Plains Coreopsis

Coreopsis tinctoria

Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) is a cheerful annual wildflower native to North America, producing masses of bright daisy-like flowers in yellow, red, burgundy, and gold from spring through fall. A staple of prairie meadows, it thrives in full sun with minimal care, making it a favorite for wildflower gardens and pollinator habitats.

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Threadleaf Coreopsis

Coreopsis verticillata

Easy 💧 3 days ☀️ Direct sun

Threadleaf coreopsis is a bushy, drought-tolerant perennial prized for its fine, needle-like foliage arranged in whorls and its abundance of small, star-shaped, butter-yellow flowers. Native to the southeastern United States, it forms dense clumps 60-90 cm tall and wide, blooming profusely from late spring through fall. It is a low-maintenance garden staple, popular in borders, rock gardens, and pollinator plantings.

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Coriander

Coriandrum sativum

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) is a fast-growing annual herb from the Apiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean and Middle East. Both its fresh leaves (known as cilantro) and dried seeds are widely used in cuisines across the globe. The plant grows 30–60 cm tall and produces small white or pink flowers in spring and summer before setting seed.

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Service tree

Cormus domestica

Easy 💧 12 days ☀️ Direct sun

The service tree (Cormus domestica, syn. Sorbus domestica) is a deciduous fruit tree belonging to the rose family (Rosaceae), native to Southern and Central Europe as well as North Africa, and is widespread in Hungary. It is an exceptionally long-lived species that can grow up to 15 meters tall and live for centuries, though it typically only begins to bear fruit at a much older age, usually between 15-20 years. Following its white flowers that bloom in May, it ripens small, yellowish-red fruits resembling apples or pears; these are tart and tannic when raw but develop a sweet-tart flavor after bletting (softening).

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Dogwood

Cornus

Medium 💧 7 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Cornus, commonly known as dogwood, is a genus of approximately 60 species of flowering shrubs and small trees belonging to the family Cornaceae. Native primarily to the Northern Hemisphere, dogwoods are celebrated for their spectacular spring blossoms — the showy "petals" are actually modified leaves (bracts) surrounding small true flowers — their stunning autumn foliage, and their ornamental winter stems in vivid red, yellow, or green. Species range from low groundcovers to trees reaching 12 metres, making them versatile additions to gardens, woodland edges, and landscape borders.

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Red-Barked Dogwood

Cornus alba

Medium 💧 7 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Cornus alba, commonly known as the Red-Barked Dogwood or Tatarian Dogwood, is a deciduous shrub native to Siberia and northeastern Asia. It is prized for its striking bright-red stems that provide vivid winter color when leaves have fallen. In spring, it produces flat-topped clusters of small creamy-white flowers, followed by white to bluish berries that attract birds. The dark green leaves develop beautiful reddish-purple tones in autumn, making this shrub a true four-season plant.

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Flowering Dogwood

Cornus florida

Cornus florida, commonly known as the Flowering Dogwood, is a stunning small deciduous tree native to eastern North America. Beloved for its spectacular spring display of white or pink bracts that surround tiny true flowers, it also features brilliant red berries in fall and vibrant scarlet foliage. It is the state tree of Virginia and Missouri, and the state flower of North Carolina.

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Cornelian Cherry

Cornus mas

Cornelian Cherry (Cornus mas) is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to southern Europe and western Asia, belonging to the family Cornaceae. One of the earliest plants to bloom, it produces clusters of small bright yellow flowers on bare branches in late winter or early spring before the leaves emerge. The glossy red, olive-shaped fruits ripen in late summer and are edible, traditionally used in jams, syrups, sauces, and liqueurs. The plant offers multi-season ornamental interest through its exfoliating bark and reddish autumn foliage.

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Common Dogwood

Cornus sanguinea

Easy 💧 4 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Common dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) is a hardy deciduous shrub native to Europe and western Asia, prized for its vivid red winter stems and adaptability. Clusters of small white flowers appear in late spring to summer, followed by black berries, with foliage turning red-purple in autumn.

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Red Osier Dogwood

Cornus sericea

The red osier dogwood is a fast-growing, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub native to much of North America, prized above all for its brilliant red winter stems. Small clusters of creamy white flowers appear in late spring, followed by white berries often tinged with blue that ripen in late summer and feed songbirds and small mammals. In fall the foliage turns shades of orange, red, and purple before dropping to reveal the shrub's fiery bark. It spreads by underground stolons and root suckers to form dense colonies, making it a popular choice for stream banks, rain gardens, and wet or boggy sites where few other shrubs thrive.

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Wire-netting Bush

Corokia cotoneaster

Corokia cotoneaster, commonly known as the wire-netting bush or korokio, is a small evergreen shrub endemic to New Zealand. Prized for its distinctive divaricating growth habit — a dense tangle of wiry, interlacing branches — it produces small silver-grey, ovate leaves with felted undersides that shimmer in the breeze. In spring and summer, star-shaped yellow flowers appear along the branches, followed by ornamental red, orange, or yellow berries that persist into winter. Slow-growing and remarkably tough, it tolerates coastal exposure, wind, drought, and frost, making it a favorite for hedging, rock gardens, containers, and bonsai.

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Ice Plant

Corpuscularia lehmannii

Easy 💧 14 days ☀️ Direct sun

Corpuscularia lehmannii, popularly known as the Ice Plant or String of Buttons, is a compact, perennial succulent from the Aizoaceae family, native to the Western Cape region of South Africa. It forms small clusters of fleshy, cylindrical leaves that are slightly translucent at the tips, featuring a grayish-green to bluish hue that resembles grouped "fingers" or buttons. In late spring and early summer, it produces small yellow daisy-like flowers that open during the day under sunlight. It is a slow-to-moderate growing plant, highly drought-resistant and low-maintenance, making it ideal for rock gardens, shallow pots, and succulent arrangements.

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Pampas Grass

Cortaderia selloana

Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana) is a large, ornamental perennial grass native to the South American pampas. It forms impressive clumps of long, arching, razor-sharp leaves and produces spectacular feathery plumes in white, cream, or pink from summer through autumn, reaching up to 10 feet tall.

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violet webcap

Cortinarius violaceus

Hard 💧 3 days ☀️ Low light

Cortinarius violaceus, commonly known as the violet webcap, is a spectacular fungus in the Cortinariaceae family. It is distinguished by its deep violet, almost black color and the velvety texture of both its cap and stem. It is a mycorrhizal species, forming complex symbiotic relationships with trees such as deciduous hardwoods (beech) or conifers.

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Scouler's fumewort

Corydalis scouleri

Medium 💧 3 days ☀️ Partial shade

Corydalis scouleri, known as Scouler's fumewort, is a robust woodland perennial native to the coastal forests of Washington and Oregon, where it colonizes rich, moist bottomland along shaded stream banks. It forms broad clumps up to about 90 cm tall of tiered, lacy blue-green foliage, topped in spring and early summer by upright racemes of slender, spurred tubular flowers in pink to mauve. It typically goes dormant by late summer.

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Common Hazel

Corylus avellana

Common Hazel (Corylus avellana) is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to Europe and Western Asia, from the British Isles to the Caucasus and Turkey. It typically reaches a height of 3–6 meters with a broad, multi-stemmed growth habit, forming dense thickets and hedgerows. The leaves are round to oval with doubly serrated margins and a characteristic rough texture; in autumn, they turn golden yellow. The female flowers are remarkably discreet – only the bright red stigmas are visible from the closed buds – while the male catkins hang in long, yellowish-green clusters and are a sure sign of early spring. The hazel is one of the earliest spring shrubs in the Northern European landscape. It flowers as early as January to April, before the leaves emerge, and is pollinated exclusively by wind. Its fruits are the well-known hazelnuts, which ripen in clusters with a cup-shaped involucre in September–October. The nuts are rich in fat (up to 60%), protein, and vitamin E, and have been an important food source for humans in Europe since the Stone Age. Hazel grows at forest edges, in hedgerows, scrublands, and along watercourses, and is a key species for biodiversity: its early pollen is crucial for bees, and it hosts the larvae of over 70 butterfly and moth species. The shrub is extremely hardy and adaptable; it thrives in almost all soil types, from sandy soil to clay, and from sea level to the mountains. It spreads naturally via suckers and can be effectively rejuvenated by coppicing – a traditional management method that both extends the shrub's lifespan and produces flexible, pliable wood suitable for weaving (hazel rods). In Denmark, hazel is a characteristic element of oak forests and scrublands throughout the country.

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Turkish Hazel

Corylus colurna

Corylus colurna, the Turkish hazel, is a large deciduous tree native to southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. Recognized for its symmetrical pyramidal form and outstanding tolerance to urban conditions, heat, cold, and drought, it produces edible hazelnuts enclosed in distinctive hairy husks.

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Giant Filbert

Corylus maxima

Easy 💧 10 days ☀️ Direct sun

Corylus maxima, the giant filbert, is a vigorous deciduous shrub or small tree native to the Balkan Peninsula and parts of southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia. Closely related to the common hazel (Corylus avellana), it is distinguished by its edible nuts enclosed in a long, tubular husk that extends well beyond the shell. Grown both for its nut harvest and, in purple-leaved cultivars such as Purpurea, as an ornamental garden specimen, it produces striking pale yellow male catkins in late winter that are among the first signs of the growing season.

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grey hair-grass

Corynephorus canescens

Grey hair-grass is a perennial, densely tufted grass from the Poaceae family, typically growing 15–30 cm tall. It has narrow, bristly, grey-green to silvery-blue leaves and produces delicate, silvery panicles with a purplish tint in June to July, whose awns have a characteristic club-like shape (hence the Czech name). It is a typical pioneer species of wind-blown sands and open sandy grasslands – in the Czech Republic, it grows scattered in warmer areas of central and northwestern Bohemia (Polabí region) and in South Moravia. It tolerates extreme drought, poor soil, and large temperature fluctuations, and is therefore valued as an undemanding ornamental grass for rock gardens, gravel beds, and containers.

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Karaka

Corynocarpus laevigatus

Medium 💧 10 days ☀️ Bright indirect

Karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus) is a stately evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand, prized for its glossy dark-green foliage and orange-yellow drupes. A taonga (treasure) of Māori culture, it was cultivated near settlements as a critical food source — though its seed kernels contain the potent toxin karakin and must be carefully detoxified before consumption. In gardens and coastal landscapes it provides year-round structure and dense shade.

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Garden Cosmos

Cosmos

Easy 💧 6 days ☀️ Direct sun

Garden Cosmos (Cosmos spp.) is a fast-growing, sun-loving annual flower native to Mexico and the southwestern United States, prized for its airy, fern-like foliage and daisy-like blooms in shades of white, pink, purple, yellow and orange. The genus includes roughly 20-35 species, but almost all garden cultivation centers on Cosmos bipinnatus (pink, white and purple shades) and Cosmos sulphureus (yellow, orange and red shades). Cosmos thrives in poor, well-draining soil and full sun, blooming continuously from summer through fall with minimal care.

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Garden cosmos

Cosmos bipinnatus

Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly known as Garden Cosmos, is a popular annual flowering plant native to Mexico. It is celebrated for its delicate, feathery foliage and large, daisy-like flowers that bloom in shades of pink, white, and purple. It is a resilient plant that thrives in sunny locations and is a favorite for pollinator gardens as it attracts bees and butterflies.

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Sulfur Cosmos

Cosmos sulphureus

Medium 💧 5 days ☀️ Partial shade

Cosmos sulphureus is a vibrant annual herbaceous plant native to Mexico and Central America. It is widely appreciated for its radiant flowers in shades of yellow, orange, and scarlet red, which stand out against finely cut, light green foliage. This species is extremely hardy, heat and drought-resistant, making it a popular choice for low-maintenance gardens and for attracting pollinators such as butterflies and bees.

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spiral ginger

Costus

Costus is a genus of tropical plants in the family Costaceae, commonly known as spiral ginger. Named for the characteristic spiral arrangement of their stems and leaves, these striking plants produce showy flower spikes in shades of red, orange, yellow, white, and pink. Native to tropical regions of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, the genus encompasses over 150 species thriving in warm, humid environments. Spiral gingers are prized ornamentals in tropical and subtropical gardens and make excellent indoor specimens in bright, humid spaces. Beyond their ornamental value, several Costus species have a long history of use in traditional medicine across their native ranges.

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Arabian Spiral Ginger

Costus arabicus

Medium 💧 3 days ☀️ Partial shade

Costus arabicus, commonly known as Arabian Spiral Ginger, is a tropical evergreen perennial in the family Costaceae. Native to South and Central America, it is prized for its spiraling stems, lush foliage, and attractive white to pink flowers. It thrives in warm, humid environments and is widely grown as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical gardens as well as indoors.

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Spiral Ginger

Costus spiralis

Easy 💧 4 days ☀️ Partial shade

Costus spiralis is a tropical plant in the Costaceae family, native to South America. It features distinctive spiral stems and tubular red or orange flowers. Popular in tropical gardens and used medicinally.

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Red Button Ginger

Costus woodsonii

Easy 💧 14 days ☀️ Direct sun

Costus woodsonii, commonly known as red button ginger or scarlet spiral-ginger, is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial native to humid forests and coastal scrublands along the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama to Colombia. It forms spiraling stems topped with glossy, overlapping bright red bracts from which small red-and-yellow tubular flowers emerge, blooming almost continuously in warm, humid climates. Popular as a tropical garden accent and container plant, it thrives in bright indirect light to partial sun and evenly moist, well-drained, organically rich soil.

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Smoke tree

Cotinus coggygria

Cotinus coggygria, commonly known as the smoke tree or smokebush, is a deciduous ornamental shrub in the Anacardiaceae family, native to dry mountainous areas of Central and Southern Europe and Asia. It is named for its distinctive, smoke-like inflorescences that decorate the plant from mid-summer to autumn with silvery-pink, feathery puffs. The leaves are round-ovate, blue-green in summer, and turn spectacular shades of yellow, red, or purple in autumn. It can reach a height of 4–5 meters with a similar spread. It particularly prefers well-drained soil and full sun, requiring low maintenance due to its drought tolerance.

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Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is a large genus of flowering shrubs in the rose family (Rosaceae), native to the Palearctic region spanning temperate Asia, Europe, and North Africa. With over 300 species, it ranges from low-growing ground cover plants to upright shrubs reaching 5 m tall. Widely cultivated in gardens for year-round ornamental interest: delicate spring flowers, vibrant autumn foliage, and long-lasting decorative red berries in winter that attract birds and pollinators.

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Peking Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster acutifolius

Peking cotoneaster is a hardy deciduous shrub native to Siberia, Mongolia, and China, valued for its dense upright habit, glossy dark green leaves, and clusters of small white flowers tinged with pink in late spring. Its dark red to black berries persist into winter, offering food for birds and ornamental interest in the landscape.

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Late Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster coriaceus

Late cotoneaster (Cotoneaster coriaceus, widely sold under its synonym Cotoneaster lacteus) is a vigorous evergreen shrub native to the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, Xizang and Yunnan. It forms a dense, arching mound of leathery, glossy dark-green leaves with felted grey-white undersides, reaching 2.5-4 m in height and spread over 10-20 years. Clusters of small white flowers appear in late spring through summer, followed by long-lasting bright red berries that persist into winter and are a valuable food source for birds. It is a popular choice for informal hedges, screens and wildlife gardens thanks to its toughness and tolerance of poor soils, wind and coastal exposure.

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Rockspray Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster horizontalis

Cotoneaster horizontalis is a low-growing deciduous shrub native to western China, renowned for its distinctive fishbone (herringbone) branching pattern. It produces small pink-white flowers in spring, followed by brilliant scarlet berries in autumn that attract birds. Its dense, horizontal habit makes it excellent for ground cover, wall training, and rockery planting.

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Bear's Paw

Cotyledon ladismithiensis