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Ragweed
Ambrosia
Ambrosia is a genus of roughly 40 weedy annual and perennial species in the daisy family (Asteraceae), native to the Americas and now naturalized across Europe, Asia, and beyond. The best-known species, Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common or annual ragweed), is a fast-growing, deeply lobed-leaved plant that colonizes disturbed soil -- roadsides, fields, construction sites, and waste ground. It is not cultivated as an ornamental; rather, it is notorious as one of the most significant sources of allergenic pollen in the world, triggering hay fever (allergic rhinitis) in millions of people during late summer and fall.
Serviceberry
Amelanchier
Amelanchier, commonly known as serviceberry or juneberry, is a genus of deciduous shrubs and small trees in the rose family (Rosaceae), native mainly to North America. It is prized for its clouds of white spring flowers, sweet edible summer berries, and fiery orange-red fall foliage.
Juneberry
Amelanchier × lamarckii
Amelanchier × lamarckii is a naturally occurring hybrid serviceberry, most likely a cross between Allegheny serviceberry (A. laevis) and downy serviceberry (A. arborea), first recognized in the early 20th century and now widely planted as an ornamental garden tree. This deciduous, multi-stemmed large shrub or small tree grows 15-25 ft (roughly 4.5-7.5 m) tall, with an open, rounded crown. In spring, before or as the bronze-tinted young leaves unfurl, it is covered in drooping clusters of star-shaped white flowers. These are followed in early summer by small, round, purple-black pome fruits ("juneberries") that resemble blueberries and are sweet and edible, attracting birds. Fall brings vivid orange-to-red foliage color, making this a four-season interest plant.
Saskatoon Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia
Amelanchier alnifolia, the Saskatoon serviceberry, is a long-lived deciduous shrub or small tree native to western North America, ranging from Alaska south to California and east to the Great Plains. One of the most cold-hardy woody fruiting plants in cultivation, it thrives in USDA zones 2a through 7b and tolerates temperatures as low as -45°C. Each spring it erupts in clusters of fragrant, star-shaped white flowers before the leaves fully expand—an early-season spectacle cherished by pollinators and gardeners alike. By midsummer, branches bow under generous crops of sweet, blueberry-like purple berries that have sustained Indigenous peoples for millennia, eaten fresh, dried into pemmican, or baked into pies. Come autumn, the foliage transforms to brilliant golds, oranges, and reds, extending its ornamental value through the season. Highly drought-tolerant once established, it asks for little beyond full sun, well-drained loamy soil, and occasional pruning to keep its suckering growth in check.
Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
A deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree native to eastern North America, prized for its clouds of white star-shaped flowers that open in early spring before the leaves unfurl. By early summer the blooms give way to sweet, blueberry-like purple-black berries, and in autumn the foliage turns brilliant shades of orange and red. Its early bloom time made it a folk calendar marker for the shad fish runs, hence the name shadbush.
Bishop's Flower
Ammi majus
Ammi majus is an upright annual (occasionally biennial) herb in the carrot family (Apiaceae), native to the Nile Valley, North Africa and the Mediterranean basin. It produces finely divided, feathery foliage and 5-10cm lacy white umbels similar to Queen Anne's lace, held on branching stems up to 1.5m tall. Popular with cut-flower growers and pollinators alike, the species carries an important caveat: its sap contains furanocoumarins (bergapten and xanthotoxin) that sensitize skin to UV light, so handle it with gloves and long sleeves.
Winged Everlasting
Ammobium alatum
The Winged Everlasting is an Australian, long-lasting ornamental plant belonging to the aster family (Asteraceae). It is known for its white, papery dry flowers with a bright yellow center. The plant requires plenty of sun and is very drought-tolerant, making it an ideal choice for dry gardens and dried flower arrangements.
Voodoo Lily
Amorphophallus
Amorphophallus is a captivating genus of approximately 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants in the family Araceae, native to Asia, Africa, and Australasia. They are renowned for their spectacular inflorescences — some of the largest in the plant kingdom — which emit powerful odors to attract pollinators. A. konjac is cultivated for its glucomannan-rich corms used in Asian cuisine. A. titanum, the "corpse flower," produces the world's largest unbranched inflorescence.
Konjac
Amorphophallus konjac
Amorphophallus konjac is an exotic tuberous plant native to Southeast Asia. It is famous for producing a single giant leaf that resembles a small tree and a spectacular dark purple inflorescence that emits a strong odor to attract pollinators. Its underground tuber is widely used in Asian cuisine for the production of konjac flour and jelly.
Sunrise Succulent
Anacampseros
Anacampseros is a genus of small, slow-growing succulent plants native to Southern Africa, prized for their compact rosettes of fleshy, often reddish or silvery leaves covered in fine white hairs. It is popular in cultivation for its easy care and summer blooms of white or pink flowers that open only in sunlight.
Spiderweb Anacampseros
Anacampseros arachnoides
Anacampseros arachnoides is a small, charming succulent native to South Africa, prized for its compact rosettes adorned with fine white thread-like trichomes that resemble a spider's web. It belongs to the family Anacampserotaceae and thrives in bright, direct sunlight with minimal watering.
Sunrise Succulent
Anacampseros retusa
Anacampseros retusa is a tiny, slow-growing succulent from the winter-rainfall regions of Namibia and South Africa's Northern and Western Cape. It forms a short, thickened caudex topped with clustered, dark blackish-green, club-shaped leaves fringed by fine woolly hairs. From spring through summer it produces wheel-shaped pink flowers that open only in the afternoon sun and close again by evening.
Sand rose
Anacampseros rufescens
Low-growing succulent native South Africa. Dense rosettes thick fleshy leaves green, yellow-green, pink, deep purple. Sunrise cultivar from warm reddish hues intensifying under bright light. Slow-growing, highly adapted arid conditions, drought-tolerant, low-maintenance.
Green-winged orchid
Anacamptis morio
Anacamptis morio, the green-winged orchid, is a tuberous terrestrial orchid native to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It grows in unimproved, nutrient-poor grassland and meadows, producing a short spike of purple-to-pink (occasionally white) helmet-shaped flowers marked with green veins in spring. The plant is dormant through summer, re-sprouting a basal leaf rosette in autumn, and depends entirely on symbiotic soil fungi to germinate and thrive.
Cashew
Anacardium occidentale
The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical fruit tree native to northeastern Brazil, now cultivated worldwide in over 30 countries. It produces the cashew apple (a fleshy pseudofruit) and the cashew nut — one of the world's most popular snacks. Trees can grow up to 20 meters tall with a dense, spreading canopy. Small pink-white flowers bloom in the dry season, attracting bees and birds. The raw shell contains urushiol (a skin irritant related to poison ivy), but roasted cashew nuts are completely safe to eat.
Red Pineapple
Ananas bracteatus
Ananas bracteatus, commonly known as the Red Pineapple, is an ornamental terrestrial bromeliad native to Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina. It forms a dense rosette of stiff, arching, spine-edged leaves and produces a compact, upright fruit surrounded by vivid red-orange bracts, which is more decorative than sweet. Grown outdoors in warm climates or as a striking container specimen elsewhere, it is prized for its bold silhouette and long-lasting color.
Pineapple
Ananas comosus
Ananas comosus, popularly known as the pineapple, is a perennial tropical plant in the bromeliad family. It is characterized by a rosette of stiff, spiny, sword-shaped leaves, from which a central stalk emerges to produce the inflorescence and, subsequently, the composite fruit. It is a CAM plant, meaning it releases oxygen at night, making it excellent for indoor environments.
Dwarf Pineapple
Ananas nanus
Ananas nanus, commonly known as dwarf pineapple, is a terrestrial bromeliad native to Brazil, grown mainly as a compact ornamental plant. It forms a tight rosette of stiff, serrated leaves and produces a small inflorescence followed by a tiny, tart, low-pulp fruit typically used as a decorative accent in pots and arrangements.
Poppy Anemone
Anemone coronaria
Anemone coronaria, the poppy anemone or Spanish marigold, is a tuberous perennial in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to the Mediterranean basin from southern Europe to the Middle East. Each knobby, dormant tuber sends up finely divided, fern-like foliage followed by a single, poppy-shaped bloom on a slender stem -- typically red, white, blue, purple or pink, with a striking dark, almost black center. Widely grown both as a garden bedding plant and as a florist's cut flower, it flowers profusely in spring and, in mild climates, again in autumn, then dies back to its tuber to rest through the hottest or coldest months. It is easy to grow from soaked tubers but does carry mild toxicity, so it is best kept away from pets and curious children.
Japanese Anemone
Anemone hupehensis
Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis) is a perennial ornamental plant belonging to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to the Hubei province of Central China. It forms a dense rosette of dark green leaves, from which 5-7-petaled flowers emerge from August to October, in shades of pink, white, or purple with yellow centers. The plant spreads slowly via its underground rhizomes and is excellent for perennial beds, bringing color to the late summer and autumn landscape. All parts of the plant contain protoanemonin, which is mildly toxic to both humans and pets.
Dill
Anethum graveolens
Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual aromatic herb from the Apiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean and Western Asia. Its feathery, blue-green leaves and aromatic seeds are widely used in cooking, particularly in pickles, sauces, and fish dishes. The plant can reach up to 150 cm in height and produces yellow flowers in umbels during summer.
Angelica
Angelica
Angelica is a genus of approximately 90 species of aromatic herbs in the family Apiaceae, native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. These biennial or short-lived perennial plants can grow up to 2.4 m (8 ft) tall, producing large umbrella-like flower clusters (umbels) in white, green, yellow, purple, or pink during summer. Prized for centuries for both medicinal and culinary applications, angelica has a distinctive musky, licorice-like aroma and flavour.
Garden Angelica
Angelica archangelica
Garden angelica is a tall, aromatic biennial herb native to Northern and Eastern Europe, prized for centuries in folk medicine, herbal liqueurs, and confectionery. Its hollow, ridged stems can reach up to 2.5 m in its second year, topped with large umbels of greenish-yellow flowers in summer.
Wild Angelica
Angelica sylvestris
Wild Angelica (Angelica sylvestris) is a biennial or short-lived perennial herb in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and temperate Asia. It thrives in moist, shaded environments such as riverbanks, woodland margins, and damp meadows, growing up to 2 metres tall. Its white to pale pink flowers, arranged in large compound umbels, are a magnet for bees, hoverflies, and butterflies. The plant has a long history of medicinal use across Europe, valued for its digestive, diuretic, and expectorant properties.
Summer Snapdragon
Angelonia angustifolia
Angelonia angustifolia, commonly called summer snapdragon, is a heat-loving herbaceous perennial in the Plantaginaceae family, native to Mexico, the West Indies and parts of Central and South America. Grown as a warm-season bedding plant across much of the world, it produces upright spikes of small, two-lipped flowers in white, pink, purple, blue and bicolor shades from early summer through fall, above narrow, slightly aromatic lance-shaped leaves.
Two-flowered Angelonia
Angelonia biflora
Angelonia biflora is a small annual flower native to Brazil, prized for its abundant blooms in shades of purple, violet, pink, and white throughout summer. Belonging to the Plantaginaceae family, this compact plant grows up to 60 cm tall and is widely used in borders, flower beds, and ornamental containers.
Tall Kangaroo Paw
Anigozanthos flavidus
The Tall Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos flavidus) is a member of the Haemodoraceae family and a perennial plant native to Southwest Australia. Its fibrous, sword-like leaves form a basal rosette, from which 1-2 meter tall flower stalks covered in velvety hairs emerge. Its distinctive tubular flowers, resembling a kangaroo's paw, range in color from yellowish-green to red and bloom almost continuously from spring to fall. It has been the official floral emblem of Western Australia since 1960.
Cape Mallow
Anisodontea capensis
Anisodontea capensis, known as Cape mallow or false mallow, is an evergreen shrub native to South Africa and a member of the Malvaceae family. The plant is characterized by its gray-green, deeply lobed leaves and delicate, hibiscus-like flowers that bloom from spring to fall in shades ranging from pink to dark reddish-purple. Growing 24-40 inches (60-100 cm) tall, it is an elegant ornamental plant for balconies and gardens.
Cherimoya
Annona cherimola
The cherimoya (Annona cherimola) is a subtropical fruit tree native to the Andean valleys of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, where it has been cultivated for over 2,000 years. It reaches between 7 and 9 meters in height with a spreading canopy and deciduous foliage of large, velvety leaves. Its flowers, greenish-yellow with purple spots, are fragrant and hermaphroditic. The fruit is the tree's true treasure: heart-shaped, with green skin and creamy white pulp with a sweet and exotic flavor, described as a blend of pineapple, mango, and strawberry. Mark Twain called it 'the most delicious fruit known to men'.
Soursop
Annona muricata
Annona muricata, popularly known as soursop, is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree native to the tropical regions of the Americas and the Caribbean. It produces large, green fruits with soft spines, whose white pulp is widely appreciated for its sweet-and-sour flavor and creamy texture. In addition to its fruits, the plant is valued for its traditional medicinal properties, although its seeds contain neurotoxic compounds that require caution.
Sugar-apple
Annona squamosa
Annona squamosa, commonly known as sugar-apple or sweetsop, is a small tropical fruit tree. Its fruits are famous for their sweet, creamy white pulp, protected by a green skin composed of protruding scales. It is a plant that thrives in heat and humidity, losing its leaves during periods of drought or intense cold.
Madeira Vine
Anredera cordifolia
Madeira vine (Anredera cordifolia) is a fast-growing climbing vine native to South America, valued for its edible, spinach-like leaves and small fragrant white flowers. It produces aerial tubers used for propagation.
Leopard Orchid
Ansellia africana
Ansellia africana, the leopard orchid, is a large epiphytic orchid native to tropical and southern Africa, where it grows in the forks of tall trees along rivers and coastlines. It forms dense clumps of cane-like pseudobulbs topped with leathery, lance-shaped leaves, and produces branching sprays of yellow flowers boldly marked with brown spots reminiscent of a leopard's coat.
Plantain-leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
Antennaria plantaginifolia, commonly known as Plantain-leaved Pussytoes or Woman's Tobacco, is a low-growing native perennial groundcover from Eastern North America. It forms spreading mats of fuzzy, silvery-green basal leaves that resemble plantain leaves, topped in spring with clusters of small white flower heads that look remarkably like cat's paws. It thrives in lean, dry, rocky soils and full to partial sun, making it an excellent choice for difficult dry spots, rock gardens, and native plant landscapes.
Corn chamomile
Anthemis arvensis
Corn chamomile is an annual plant in the Asteraceae family, native to Europe, commonly found in cereal fields and disturbed ground. It has finely divided, aromatic-looking foliage and produces white daisy-like flower heads with yellow centers, resembling true chamomile though it belongs to a different genus.
Chervil
Anthriscus cerefolium
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) is a delicate annual herb native to Europe, prized for its lacy, fern-like foliage and subtle anise-parsley flavor. A staple of French cuisine and one of the classic "fines herbes," it grows quickly and prefers cool, partially shaded conditions. It reaches 40–60 cm in height and produces small white flowers in spring and summer.
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