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Round-Leaf Aglaonema
Aglaonema rotundum
Aglaonema rotundum is a striking true species of Chinese evergreen native to the shaded rainforest understory near Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is prized for its rounded, leathery, near-black leaves marked with vivid pink to wine-red veins, one of the boldest color contrasts found in any Aglaonema species. Compact and slow-growing, it typically reaches 30-50 cm indoors, making it well suited to shelves, side tables, and low-light corners of the home.
Agrimony
Agrimonia eupatoria
Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the Rosaceae family, native to Europe and Southwest Asia, where it grows wild in damp meadows, pastures, roadsides, and stream banks. It reaches between 60 and 100 cm in height, featuring dark green pinnate leaves covered in soft downy hairs, and long terminal flower spikes of five-petaled yellow flowers that emit a spicy, apricot-like scent. It blooms between June and September, producing small hooked fruits that cling to animal fur to disperse its seeds. It is a hardy, low-maintenance plant traditionally cultivated for its medicinal properties rather than its ornamental value.
Common Fieldcap
Agrocybe pediades
Agrocybe pediades is a small, cosmopolitan saprophytic fungus that frequently grows in nutrient-rich soils, such as lawns, gardens, and pastures. It is characterized by its initially hemispherical cap that flattens with age, displaying a yellowish-ochre or cinnamon color. It is an essential organism for the decomposition of organic matter and nutrient recycling in the soil. Although edible, its small size and the potential for confusion with similar toxic species require caution.
Creeping bentgrass
Agrostis stolonifera
Agrostis stolonifera, commonly known as creeping bentgrass, is a perennial cool-season grass native to temperate Europe and Asia. It is prized worldwide for producing extremely fine, dense turf through its creeping stolons that root at every node. Widely used on golf course putting greens, bowling greens, and elite sports fields, it demands intensive management but rewards with an unmatched carpet-like appearance.
Tree of Love
Aichryson laxum
The Tree of Love (Aichryson laxum) is a compact succulent native to the Canary Islands, belonging to the Crassulaceae family. It features fleshy heart-shaped leaves arranged in rosettes at the tips of its branches, and produces small star-shaped yellow flowers in spring and summer. It is an annual or biennial plant that naturally dies after flowering.
Tree of Heaven
Ailanthus
The Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is an extremely fast-growing deciduous tree native to northern China and Taiwan. Belonging to the family Simaroubaceae, it can reach up to 25 metres in height and is renowned for its extraordinary resilience in harsh urban environments, tolerating pollution, poor soils, drought, and extreme temperatures. While classified as an invasive species in most temperate regions worldwide, Ailanthus has a rugged beauty with its large, pinnately compound leaves. The plant contains allelopathic compounds that inhibit the growth of surrounding vegetation, and contact with its sap may cause contact dermatitis in sensitive individuals. It carries mild toxicity and should be handled with care, especially during pruning.
Tree of Heaven
Ailanthus altissima
Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is an extremely fast-growing deciduous tree native to northern and central China, belonging to the family Simaroubaceae. It is widely regarded as one of the most aggressive invasive species in the world, rapidly colonizing roadsides, vacant lots, and disturbed urban environments across 30+ U.S. states and much of Europe. A single female tree can produce over 300,000 seeds per year and spreads aggressively via root sprouts. Despite its invasive character, it has traditional medicinal uses in Chinese medicine. WARNING: invasive species — illegal to plant in many jurisdictions. Contact with sap may cause skin irritation and respiratory allergic reactions.
Bugleweed
Ajuga
Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) is a low-growing, mat-forming perennial groundcover native to Europe. It spreads via creeping stolons, forming dense carpets of foliage that range from deep green to bronze-purple, topped with spikes of blue to purple flowers in spring and summer.
Bugleweed
Ajuga reptans
Ajuga reptans, commonly known as Bugleweed or Carpet Bugle, is a low-growing perennial herb in the Lamiaceae family, native to Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia. It forms a dense, compact mat of glossy, oval leaves with scalloped edges, spreading rapidly via stolons. In spring, it produces spikes of blue-violet, white, or pink flowers highly attractive to pollinators. It is one of the most versatile and hardy ground covers available, thriving in shady spots where grass and other plants struggle.
Chocolate Vine
Akebia quinata
Akebia quinata, commonly known as chocolate vine, is a vigorous, twining, semi-evergreen to deciduous climber native to Japan, Korea and China. In spring, it produces clusters of small, fragrant, chocolate-scented flowers in shades of deep purple and maroon, followed in autumn by sausage-shaped, edible purple seed pods. Its five-lobed leaflets and rapid growth make it a popular choice for covering fences, pergolas and trellises, though it can become invasive in mild climates if left unchecked.
Silk Tree / Mimosa (genus)
Albizia
Albizia is a genus of tropical and subtropical ornamental trees in the Fabaceae family, known for their delicate pink powder-puff flowers and feathery bipinnate foliage. The most widely grown species is Albizia julibrissin.
Silk Tree
Albizia julibrissin
Albizia julibrissin, commonly known as the Silk Tree or Mimosa, is a fast-growing deciduous tree native to Iran, India, China, and Japan. It is celebrated for its stunning pink and white powder-puff flowers that bloom in spring and summer, attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Its light, airy canopy — like an open parasol — can reach up to 12 meters tall and 15 meters wide, casting dappled shade below. The finely cut, fern-like bipinnate leaves fold at night and during rain, giving the tree a dreamy, animated quality. Introduced to the United States in 1745, it has become a beloved ornamental tree across temperate climates worldwide.
White Silk Tree
Albizia niopoides
Albizia niopoides, commonly known as White Silk Tree or Farinha Seca, is a fast-growing deciduous tree native to South America and Central America, belonging to the Fabaceae family. It can reach 10 to 35 meters in height, developing a characteristic wide, umbrella-shaped crown. Its delicate white to light-pink feathery flowers bloom from spring through summer, attracting bees and hummingbirds. The tree is known for nitrogen fixation, making it valuable for reforestation and agroforestry. It is highly drought-tolerant once established and adapts well to a wide range of tropical and subtropical conditions.
Slime Lily
Albuca
Albuca is a large genus of bulbous geophytes in the family Asparagaceae (subfamily Scilloideae), with over 100 species native mainly to southern Africa, extending into tropical Africa and Arabia. The genus name and the common nickname "slime lily" refer to the mucilaginous sap released when the leaves or bulb scales are cut. Most species are winter-growers: they produce leaves during the cool, wet months, flower in late winter to spring, then lose their foliage and go fully dormant through the hot, dry summer. Popular cultivated species such as Albuca spiralis and Albuca namaquensis are prized for their narrow, curly, spiral-tipped leaves and upright stalks of pendent, yellow-green, vanilla-scented flowers. As desert-adapted geophytes they are tough and forgiving once their dormancy cycle is respected, but are highly sensitive to overwatering while the bulb is dormant.
Pregnant Onion
Albuca bracteata
Albuca bracteata, popularly known as the Pregnant Onion, is a perennial bulbous plant native to South Africa (Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal). Its large, bright green bulb grows mostly above the substrate surface, from which arching lanceolate leaves up to 60 cm long sprout. In spring and summer, it produces long flower stalks up to 90 cm tall, topped with dense racemes of small white flowers with a green central vein. It is a popular houseplant due to its unusual appearance and ease of cultivation.
Curly Tamarak
Albuca spiralis
Albuca spiralis, commonly known as 'Frizzle Sizzle', is a unique bulbous succulent native to South Africa. It is celebrated for its distinctive, corkscrew-shaped leaves that curl more tightly when exposed to high light levels. In late spring, it produces spikes of nodding, bell-shaped yellow-green flowers that emit a sweet vanilla fragrance. The plant undergoes a summer dormancy period where its foliage may die back completely.
Alcantarea / Imperial Bromeliad (genus)
Alcantarea
Alcantarea is a genus of giant bromeliads native to rocky outcrops and cliff faces in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro state. These monumental plants form a central water-holding tank with their massive leaf rosettes and are adapted to full sun and periodic drought, making them outstanding specimens for tropical and subtropical gardens.
Imperial Bromeliad
Alcantarea imperialis
Alcantarea imperialis, commonly known as the Imperial Bromeliad, is one of the largest bromeliads in the world and a truly spectacular ornamental plant endemic to Brazil. Native to the rocky slopes of the Serra dos Órgãos mountain range in Rio de Janeiro state, this magnificent species forms enormous rosettes of leathery leaves that can reach 1.5 m in diameter, with a central tank capable of holding up to 30 liters of rainwater. When it eventually blooms — an event that occurs after 10 to 40 years — it produces a towering flower spike up to 3.5 m tall bearing white-yellowish flowers with reddish bracts that attract hummingbirds and other pollinators.
Hollyhock
Alcea
Alcea is a genus of about 60-80 tall, showy flowering plants in the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to southwestern and central Asia and southeastern Europe. The most widely cultivated species, Alcea rosea, is a beloved cottage-garden classic prized for its towering flower spikes, which can reach 2-3 m and bear large, saucer-shaped blooms in shades of pink, red, white, yellow, purple, and near-black. Hollyhocks are typically grown as biennials or short-lived perennials, flowering in their second year before often self-seeding. They are a favorite backdrop plant for cottage borders, fences, and walls.
Hollyhock
Alcea rosea
Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) is a biennial or short-lived perennial flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southwestern and central Asia, including Turkey and China. Renowned for its towering flower spikes reaching up to 2.5 metres (8 feet) in height, it produces abundant blooms in shades of pink, red, white, yellow, purple, and orange throughout summer. A cottage garden classic, hollyhocks thrive along fences, walls, and borders.
Russian Hollyhock
Alcea rugosa
A vigorous biennial or short-lived perennial native to Ukraine, Crimea, southern European Russia, and the Caucasus. Alcea rugosa is prized for its superior resistance to hollyhock rust compared to common hollyhock varieties. The plant produces tall, sturdy flower spikes with outward-facing, funnel-shaped, pale yellow flowers adorned with conspicuous staminal columns. Flowers bloom from bottom to top throughout late spring and summer, attracting hummingbirds and bees.
Lady's mantle
Alchemilla mollis
Lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis) is a hardy perennial from the rose family (Rosaceae), native to Southeast Europe. The plant forms elegant, rounded mounds of softly hairy, fan-shaped leaves with scalloped edges. Thanks to these fine hairs, rain and dew water bead up on the leaves—an effect that alchemists once considered the purest form of water and used in their experiments. In summer, loose clusters of countless tiny, chartreuse flowers appear above the foliage. Lady's mantle is a very low-maintenance groundcover that is excellent for borders, under trees, and along paths, and it naturalizes easily through self-seeding.
Lanceleaf Water Plantain
Alisma lanceolatum
Alisma lanceolatum is an aquatic and marginal perennial herb native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, where it grows rooted in mud along pond margins, ditches, streams and marshes. It forms a rosette of lance-shaped leaves and produces branched spikes of small, three-petaled pink flowers from June to August.
Common Water-plantain
Alisma plantago-aquatica
Alisma plantago-aquatica is a hardy marginal perennial of pond edges, ditches and slow-moving water across Europe and Asia. From a basal rosette of long-stalked, plantain-like leaves it sends up tall, airy, much-branched stems studded with tiny three-petalled flowers in white to pale pink that open in the afternoon. It dies back in winter and regrows from its rootstock each spring.
American water plantain
Alisma subcordatum
Alisma subcordatum, the American water plantain, is a native perennial emergent aquatic plant in the water-plantain family (Alismataceae). It forms a rosette of long-stalked, oval to heart-shaped leaves rising from a bulbous corm, and through summer sends up airy, much-branched panicles of tiny three-petaled flowers that open white to pale pink. Reaching about 1 m tall, it colonizes pond margins, ditches, marshes and muddy shallows across eastern and central North America, where it self-seeds freely.
Chinese lantern
Alkekengi officinarum
Chinese lantern is a spreading, rhizomatous herbaceous perennial in the nightshade family, grown for its papery calyces that inflate into bright orange "lanterns" around an edible berry in late summer and autumn. Native to Asia and southeastern Europe, it naturalizes readily and is a favorite for dried-flower arrangements.
Seashore Palm
Allagoptera arenaria
Allagoptera arenaria, commonly known as the Seashore Palm or Shore Palm, is a small palm species native to the restingas (coastal scrublands) of the Brazilian coast. It typically features an underground or very short stem, with grayish-green pinnate leaves that emerge directly from the sandy soil. It is an extremely resilient plant, adapted to strong winds, high salinity, and intense solar radiation, playing a vital ecological role in dune stabilization.
Purple Allamanda
Allamanda blanchetii
Purple Allamanda (Allamanda blanchetii) is a woody, semi-climbing tropical shrub in the Apocynaceae family, native to Bahia, Brazil. It produces large, trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of reddish-purple to lavender-pink with a contrasting yellow throat, blooming profusely from spring through fall. The velvety, elliptical leaves are arranged in whorls along flexible stems that can be trained on a trellis or pruned into a compact shrub. It is a moderately fast-growing tropical plant that demands full sun and warmth, and is sensitive to frost. The entire plant, especially its milky sap, is toxic and a skin irritant, so gloves should be worn when handling or pruning.
Golden Trumpet
Allamanda cathartica
Allamanda cathartica, commonly known as Golden Trumpet or Yellow Allamanda, is a fast-growing tropical vine native to Brazil, belonging to the Apocynaceae family. It is prized for its stunning golden-yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom nearly year-round in tropical climates. Widely used to cover pergolas, fences, and walls, it thrives in full sun with regular watering. WARNING: All parts of the plant are highly toxic, containing cardiac glycosides and irritating latex.
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is a biennial herbaceous plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), widely distributed across Central and Northern Europe as well as parts of Asia. In its first year, it forms a basal rosette of heart-shaped, deeply toothed leaves, while in its second year, it sends up a 60–100 cm tall stem with white, four-petaled flowers. Its distinctive feature is the intense garlic scent released when the leaves are crushed, which is due to the presence of glucosinolates. The plant inhabits open deciduous forests, road and forest edges, and slopes, and is known as an invasive species in North America. It is an important host plant for the Orange-tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) and its caterpillars.
Ornamental Onion
Allium
Allium is a large genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, comprising approximately 700 species including ornamental garden plants as well as culinary staples such as onion, garlic, and chives. Ornamental alliums produce striking spherical flower heads in shades of purple, pink, white, and yellow, and are prized in gardens and cut flower arrangements alike.
Leek
Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum, commonly known as leek or wild leek, is a biennial bulbous plant in the Amaryllidaceae family, native to southern Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa. It produces broad, flat, blue-green leaves and a tender white shaft prized in cooking. In its second year, it forms a beautiful spherical umbel of lilac flowers that attract pollinators.
Onion
Allium cepa
The onion (Allium cepa) is one of the most widely cultivated and consumed vegetables in the world, originating from Central Asia. Belonging to the Amaryllidaceae family, it has been grown for thousands of years for its culinary and medicinal properties. It produces succulent bulbs rich in sulfur compounds, flavonoids, and antioxidants.
Green onions
Allium fistulosum
Allium fistulosum, popularly known as green onions, is a perennial herbaceous plant essential for any vegetable garden. Its leaves are cylindrical, hollow, and deep green, growing in compact clumps. Unlike the common onion, it does not form developed globose bulbs, being prized for the mild and refreshing flavor of its stalks and white bases.
Field Garlic
Allium oleraceum
Field garlic (Allium oleraceum) is a wild bulbous perennial in the Amaryllidaceae family, native to Europe, where it grows in fields, banks, and roadsides. It produces narrow, semi-cylindrical leaves and, in summer, a loose umbel of bell-shaped flowers ranging from white to greenish, pink, or brownish, often accompanied by small aerial bulbils that enable vegetative propagation. It is a hardy, easy-to-grow species traditionally foraged as an edible aromatic herb similar to cultivated garlic.
Garlic
Allium sativum
Allium sativum, popularly known as garlic, is a bulbous plant in the Amaryllidaceae family. It is widely cultivated worldwide for its culinary and medicinal properties. The plant produces an underground bulb composed of several segments called cloves, encased in a papery skin.
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