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Blackberry Lily
Iris domestica
The Blackberry Lily (Iris domestica) is a rhizomatous perennial in the Iridaceae family, native to Asia (from the Himalayas to the Russian Far East, including China and Japan). Its sword-shaped leaves grow in flattened, iris-like fans, and in summer it produces orange flowers speckled with red spots resembling leopard markings. After flowering, pear-shaped seed pods split open to reveal shiny black seeds clustered like blackberries, giving the plant its common name.
Stinking Iris
Iris foetidissima
Iris foetidissima, commonly called the stinking iris or roast-beef plant, is a tough evergreen perennial from the iris family (Iridaceae), native to woodlands and hedgerows across Europe and North Africa. Unlike most irises, which crave full sun, this shade-loving species thrives beneath trees and in the driest, poorest corners of the garden where little else survives. Its narrow, sword-shaped leaves release a pungent odor reminiscent of roasting beef when bruised or crushed, giving the plant its unusual common names. In late spring, dull purple flowers with a yellow flush appear, but the real spectacle comes in autumn, when large seed pods split open to reveal clusters of glossy, bright orange-red seeds that persist through winter, making it a favorite for dried flower arrangements and winter-interest borders.
Bearded Iris
Iris germanica
Iris germanica, the bearded iris, is a robust rhizomatous perennial grown for its large, ruffled flowers in late spring. Each bloom carries three upright standard petals and three drooping falls marked with a fuzzy beard, in a huge range of colours from deep purple and blue to white, yellow and pink. Sword-shaped grey-green leaves stand in fans above thick surface rhizomes.
Fringed Iris
Iris japonica
Iris japonica, commonly known as the Fringed Iris or Butterfly Flower, is an elegant evergreen iris native to China and Japan. It features delicate fringed petals in pale blue, lavender, or white with distinctive orange or yellow crests, blooming in spring. The plant spreads through creeping rhizomes and makes an excellent ground cover in shaded garden areas.
Yellow Flag Iris
Iris pseudacorus
Iris pseudacorus, commonly known as Yellow Flag Iris, is a vigorous aquatic perennial native to Europe and Western Asia. It thrives in wetlands, pond margins, and water gardens, producing striking bright yellow flowers in late spring to early summer. Its sword-like foliage and bold blooms make it a dramatic feature in water landscapes.
Dwarf Bearded Iris
Iris pumila
Iris pumila is a low-growing rhizomatous perennial native to the grasslands and rocky steppes of eastern Europe and western Asia. Reaching only 10-20 cm in height, it forms dense mats of sword-shaped, blue-green leaves and produces large, showy flowers in shades of purple, yellow, blue, cream, and white, often with a darker spot on the falls. One of the earliest bearded irises to bloom each spring, it has been extensively used to breed modern dwarf and median bearded iris cultivars.
Siberian Iris
Iris sibirica
Iris sibirica, commonly known as Siberian Iris, is a graceful perennial flowering plant native to Central and Eastern Europe through Central Asia. It produces elegant, blue to violet blooms in late spring to early summer atop slender upright stems. Forming dense clumps of grass-like foliage, it is one of the most disease-resistant and low-maintenance irises available to gardeners. Its deciduous foliage turns attractive straw-yellow in autumn before dying back.
Chinese Ixora
Ixora chinensis
Ixora chinensis, commonly known as Chinese Ixora or Dwarf Ixora, is a tropical evergreen shrub in the Rubiaceae family, native to China and Southeast Asia. It produces dense clusters of small, vibrant flowers in shades of red, orange, pink, yellow, and white, blooming almost year-round in tropical climates. It is widely used in gardens, hedges, and ornamental beds, prized for its long flowering period and compact, dense growth habit.
Jungle Geranium
Ixora coccinea
Ixora coccinea, commonly known as jungle geranium or flame of the woods, is a dense, multi-branched evergreen shrub in the family Rubiaceae. Native to Southern India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, it has been widely cultivated across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide for centuries. The plant typically reaches 1.2–1.8 m (4–6 ft) in height under garden conditions, though it can grow to 3.7 m (12 ft) or more in ideal settings. Its glossy, leathery oblong leaves emerge bronzy before maturing to deep dark green, providing an attractive backdrop for its showy flowers. The plant produces spectacular rounded clusters (corymbs) of small, tubular, four-petaled flowers measuring 2–5 inches across. While the classic form bears brilliant scarlet-red blooms, cultivars exist in orange, yellow, pink, and white. In frost-free tropical climates, flowering is nearly continuous year-round, making it one of the most reliable and long-blooming tropical shrubs available. The flowers are mildly fragrant and attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators, followed by small dark purple-black berry-like fruits. Ixora coccinea thrives in full sun with consistently moist, well-draining, acidic soil (pH 5.0–5.5) — it is notably sensitive to alkaline conditions, quickly developing iron and manganese chlorosis if soil pH rises above 6.0. It is frost-tender, suited only to USDA zones 10–11 outdoors, but can be grown as a container plant brought indoors in cooler climates. Beyond its ornamental value, Ixora holds significant cultural and medicinal importance — it is sacred in Hindu practice as an offering to Shiva, is the national flower of Suriname, and has a long history of use in Ayurvedic medicine.
Jabuticaba
Jaboticaba
The jabuticabeira is a slow-growing, evergreen Brazilian fruit tree known for its cauliflory: white flowers and fruits emerge directly from the trunk and thick branches rather than just at the tips of the limbs. Native to the Atlantic Forest (primarily Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro), it can take 8 to 10 years to bear fruit when grown from seed, but grafted seedlings or those obtained through air layering fruit much earlier, between 3 and 5 years. It is widely used as both a fruit-bearing and ornamental tree, including in pots and as bonsai.
Blue Jacaranda
Jacaranda mimosaefolia
The Blue Jacaranda is one of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, native to northwestern Argentina and southern Bolivia. In spring, before the feathery fern-like leaves emerge, the tree erupts in a stunning display of violet-blue trumpet-shaped flowers that carpet entire streets and gardens. Growing up to 40 feet tall with a wide spreading canopy, it is a beloved ornamental tree planted across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
Hoary Ragwort
Jacobaea erucifolia
Hoary Ragwort (Jacobaea erucifolia, syn. Senecio erucifolius) is a rhizomatous perennial herb in the daisy family (Asteraceae), native to Europe and western Asia. It forms upright, branching stems up to 60cm tall covered in fine grey-white down that gives the plant its "hoary" look, with deeply pinnate, lobed leaves. From July to August it bears flat-topped clusters of small, bright-yellow daisy-like flower heads. It thrives in damp, calcareous grassland, field margins, roadsides and waste ground, spreading readily by seed and creeping rhizomes. Every part of the plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to humans and animals, especially livestock.
Silver Ragwort
Jacobaea maritima
Jacobaea maritima, commonly known as Silver Ragwort or Dusty Miller, is a perennial subshrub prized for its striking silvery-white, felt-like foliage. The leaves are deeply lobed and covered in fine, matted hairs that give the plant a woolly appearance and help it conserve moisture. While it produces small, yellow daisy-like flowers in the summer, it is primarily grown for its decorative foliage which provides a brilliant contrast to green-leaved plants and colorful blooms in garden beds and containers.
Common Ragwort
Jacobaea vulgaris
Common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris, syn. Senecio jacobaea) is a biennial herbaceous plant in the daisy family (Asteraceae), native to northern Eurasia and now naturalized worldwide. It forms a leaf rosette in its first year and a flowering stem up to 2 m tall in its second, bearing clusters of bright yellow daisy-like flowers from summer into autumn. It grows wild on wasteland, roadsides, and poor grazing pastures. WARNING: this plant is toxic, containing hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids dangerous to horses, cattle, and humans, particularly when dried in hay.
Skyblue Clustervine
Jacquemontia pentanthos
Skyblue Clustervine (Jacquemontia pentanthos) is an evergreen perennial vine from the Convolvulaceae family, native to Tropical Americas including Brazil. It produces an abundance of funnel-shaped, sky blue to pinkish-lavender flowers with white throats that open at dawn and close after dark. A fast-growing vine highly valued for covering fences, pergolas, and trellises in tropical gardens.
Jasmine
Jasminum
Jasminum is a genus of about 200 species of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, Africa, Australasia and Oceania. Grown for their intensely fragrant, star-shaped flowers, usually white or yellow, jasmines range from compact evergreen shrubs to vigorous climbing vines that can reach several meters with support. Popular garden and houseplant species include Jasminum officinale (common jasmine), Jasminum sambac (Arabian jasmine, used to scent jasmine tea) and Jasminum polyanthum (a fast-growing winter-flowering climber). Most jasmines bloom heaviest in spring and summer, filling gardens and homes with perfume especially in the evening. Because this entry covers the genus as a whole, care guidance below reflects typical requirements shared across common cultivated species; individual species can vary in hardiness, mature size and growth habit.
Azores Jasmine
Jasminum azoricum
Azores jasmine (Jasminum azoricum) is an evergreen climbing shrub in the olive family (Oleaceae), prized for its fragrant white flowers with a subtle citrus scent that bloom from spring through fall. With woody stems at the base and trailing, semi-woody growth above, it can reach 2.5 to 6 meters in height when given support to climb. Its glossy, dark green trifoliate leaves keep the plant attractive year-round.
Common Jasmine
Jasminum officinale
Jasminum officinale, known as Common Jasmine or True Jasmine, is a vigorous semi-evergreen climbing vine native to Persia and the Himalayas. Celebrated worldwide for its intensely sweet, iconic fragrance, it produces clusters of delicate white flowers tinged pink in bud from late spring through autumn. A single plant can perfume an entire garden.
Pink Jasmine
Jasminum polyanthum
Jasminum polyanthum is a vigorous, twining evergreen climber native to China, prized for its profuse clusters of intensely fragrant, star-shaped white flowers with pink-tinged buds. Blooming from late winter through spring, it can reach up to 5 meters and is a popular choice for both indoor and outdoor growing. Its fast growth rate and ease of care make it ideal for trellises, arches, and hanging baskets.
Arabian Jasmine
Jasminum sambac
Arabian Jasmine (Jasminum sambac) is a tropical, evergreen climbing shrub native to South and Southeast Asia, particularly India. Celebrated for its intensely fragrant white flowers that bloom in the evening, it is one of the most culturally significant plants in Asia. It serves as the national flower of the Philippines (sampaguita) and one of Indonesia's three national flowers (melati putih). Widely grown as an ornamental, it is also treasured for jasmine tea production, perfumery, and traditional medicine.
Jatropha (genus)
Jatropha
Jatropha is a genus of over 170 tropical and subtropical shrubs and small trees in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Popular ornamental species include J. integerrima (peregrina/spicy jatropha), J. podagrica (buddha belly/gout plant), and J. multifida (coral plant). They produce vibrant red, coral, or pink flowers and feature a characteristic succulent-like swollen stem. All parts are severely toxic — seeds, leaves, and white latex contain toxalbumins curcin and jatrophin.
Peregrina
Jatropha integerrima
Peregrina (Jatropha integerrima) is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), native to Cuba and Hispaniola in the Caribbean. It produces red, pink, or white flowers almost year-round, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. Low-maintenance and drought-tolerant once established, it is nonetheless TOXIC: the milky sap irritates skin and eyes, and all plant parts are poisonous if ingested.
Buddha belly plant
Jatropha podagrica
Jatropha podagrica is a striking caudex-forming succulent native to Central America and southern Mexico. Its characteristic swollen, bottle-like stem stores water and nutrients, granting exceptional drought tolerance. It produces vivid orange-red flowers in dense clusters on long peduncles almost year-round, creating a striking contrast with its large, deeply lobed leaves. WARNING: all parts of the plant are highly toxic to humans, cats, and dogs.
Eastern Black Walnut
Juglans nigra
Juglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is a large deciduous tree native to the eastern and central United States, prized for its rich, dark, highly figured wood, its edible nuts, and its imposing shade canopy. Mature specimens typically reach 20-30 m tall with a broad, rounded crown and can live well over a century. The pinnately compound leaves, made up of 15-23 lance-shaped leaflets, turn a soft yellow in autumn before dropping early, and the deeply furrowed, dark gray-brown bark gives older trees a rugged, sculptural silhouette. In spring, inconspicuous green catkins appear alongside the emerging leaves, followed by round, thick-husked nuts that ripen in fall and stain hands and pavement a deep brown. One of the tree's most distinctive traits is allelopathy: its roots, leaf litter and nut husks release juglone, a chemical that suppresses or kills many nearby plants — including tomatoes, azaleas and blueberries — within its dripline, so it is best planted well away from vegetable gardens and ornamental beds. Juglone and other compounds in the shavings and hulls can also be irritating to dogs and, notably, toxic to horses if used as bedding. Despite these quirks, black walnut is a valuable wildlife tree, feeding squirrels and other mammals, and its lumber is among the most sought-after hardwoods in North America.
English walnut
Juglans regia
The English walnut (Juglans regia) is a deciduous tree in the Juglandaceae family, growing up to 20–30 meters tall. Originally native from the Balkans to Central Asia, it is now cultivated worldwide for its delicious, oil-rich nuts and valuable timber. It is characterized by a wide, spreading crown and fragrant, odd-pinnate leaves. In spring, its inconspicuous greenish flowers bloom in catkins and are wind-pollinated.
Rush
Juncus
Rush is the common name for plants in the genus Juncus, a large group of grass-like, clump-forming perennials found in wet meadows, marshes and pond edges worldwide. Rushes are prized for their cylindrical, leafless, evergreen-to-semi-evergreen stems that form neat upright or arching tufts, and for their small brown or green flower clusters that appear along the stem in summer. Low-maintenance and slow-growing, rushes are a favorite for rain gardens, bog gardens and container water features.
Soft Rush
Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus, commonly known as soft rush, is a cosmopolitan wetland perennial in the Juncaceae family. It forms dense, upright clumps of smooth, cylindrical, evergreen stems that lack true leaves, giving the plant a distinctive tufted, rush-like silhouette. Found naturally along pond margins, marshes, ditches, and other saturated soils worldwide, soft rush is a true hydrophyte that tolerates standing water and is widely used in water gardens, rain gardens, and wetland restoration projects.
Juniper
Juniperus
Juniper (Juniperus) is a genus of evergreen conifers in the Cupressaceae family, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. It comprises 50–70 species ranging from ground-cover shrubs to tall trees. Junipers are exceptionally popular for bonsai cultivation, particularly J. chinensis, J. procumbens, J. rigida, and J. squamata.
Chinese Juniper
Juniperus chinensis
Juniperus chinensis, commonly known as Chinese Juniper, is an evergreen conifer native to China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. It is one of the most popular bonsai species worldwide, celebrated for its remarkable durability, adaptability to training, and striking foliage that can be either scale-like (adult) or needle-like (juvenile). Outdoor specimens can reach impressive heights, and the species offers hundreds of cultivars including Hetzii, Blue Point, Spartan, and the beloved dwarf Procumbens Nana.
Common Juniper
Juniperus communis
Common Juniper (Juniperus communis) is an evergreen coniferous shrub or small tree in the family Cupressaceae. It holds the distinction of having the widest natural range of any woody plant, spanning the circumboreal regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. It produces aromatic bluish-black berries (seed cones) widely used to flavor gin and as a culinary spice.
Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis
Juniperus horizontalis, commonly known as Creeping Juniper, is a hardy, low-spreading evergreen conifer native to North America. It forms a dense mat of blue-green to silver-blue foliage that hugs the ground, making it an outstanding groundcover for slopes, rock gardens, and open landscapes. Highly tolerant of cold, drought, salt, and poor soils, it is one of the most versatile and resilient conifers for temperate gardens.
Japanese Garden Juniper
Juniperus procumbens
Juniperus procumbens, commonly known as Japanese Garden Juniper, is a low-spreading evergreen conifer native to southern Japan. It forms a dense, cascading mat of blue-green needle-like foliage and is highly prized in bonsai cultivation, especially the compact 'Nana' cultivar. Ideal for ground cover, rock gardens, and slope stabilization, it thrives in full sun with excellent drainage.
Savin Juniper
Juniperus sabina
Juniperus sabina, commonly known as Savin Juniper, is a low-growing, spreading evergreen conifer in the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, the Caucasus, and parts of western Asia and Siberia. It typically forms a dense, sprawling shrub reaching about 1 to 2 meters in height with a spread of 2 to 3 meters or more, though some forms can become semi-erect. The scale-like, blue-green foliage is aromatic when crushed, releasing a strong resinous scent from the essential oil sabinene. As a dioecious species, individual plants are either male or female; female plants produce small, berry-like blue-black seed cones. Extremely hardy and drought-tolerant once established, Savin Juniper is widely planted as a groundcover, on slopes, and in rock gardens for its low maintenance and tolerance of poor, rocky, or alkaline soils. All parts of the plant are toxic if ingested, so it should be sited away from children and pets.
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Juniperus scopulorum
The Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) is a slow-growing, cold-hardy evergreen conifer native to the mountains and foothills of western North America, from British Columbia and Alberta south through the Rockies to Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. Depending on the cultivar, it grows as a narrow columnar tree or a broad shrub, reaching 9-12 m (30-40 ft) tall in the wild, with scale-like, blue-green to silvery foliage and small, berry-like blue-grey cones. Exceptionally drought-, wind-, and cold-tolerant, it thrives in rocky, well-draining soils and is a popular choice for windbreaks, hedges, and xeriscape gardens across USDA zones 3a-7b.
Flaky Juniper
Juniperus squamata
Juniperus squamata, commonly known as Flaky Juniper or Himalayan Juniper, is a low-growing coniferous shrub native to the mountain ranges of the Himalayas, China, and Taiwan. Its most popular cultivar, 'Blue Star', is prized for its striking blue-gray needle-like foliage and compact mounding form, making it a staple in rock gardens, foundation plantings, and landscape designs.
Eastern Red Cedar
Juniperus virginiana
Juniperus virginiana, commonly known as the Eastern Red Cedar, is an evergreen conifer native to eastern North America. This tree is famous for its aromatic, durable, and rot-resistant wood, often used in chests and closets. Its foliage is dense, consisting of scale-like leaves that remain green year-round, though they may take on bronze tones in winter. It produces small bluish cones that resemble berries, serving as a vital food source for various birds.
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