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Potato Vine
Solanum laxum
Solanum laxum, commonly called potato vine or jasmine nightshade, is a fast-growing semi-evergreen climber native to southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. Its twining, semi-woody stems can reach 6-9 m, quickly covering fences, trellises and arbors. From summer into fall it produces clusters of fragrant, star-shaped white flowers with yellow stamens, followed by small blue-black berries. All parts of the plant - leaves, stems, flowers and especially the unripe berries - contain solanine and other glycoalkaloids and are toxic if ingested by humans and pets; the sap can also irritate skin, so gloves are recommended when pruning.
Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant, is a species in the Solanaceae family native to South America. It is widely cultivated worldwide for its edible fruits, which vary in size, color, and shape. Although it is a perennial plant in tropical climates, it is generally grown as an annual in home and commercial gardens due to its sensitivity to cold and its production cycle.
Cherry Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
Cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme) is a small-fruited tomato variety native to the Andean region of Peru and Ecuador, believed to be the closest wild relative of cultivated tomatoes. It produces clusters of round, bite-sized fruits ranging from red to yellow, orange, and even black, on sprawling indeterminate vines (or compact determinate bushes in dwarf cultivars). Fast-growing and highly productive, it thrives in warm, sunny conditions and is one of the most popular vegetables for home gardens and containers.
Nipplefruit
Solanum mammosum
Solanum mammosum, commonly known as Nipplefruit or Cow's Udder Plant, is a tropical shrub native to South and Central America. It is widely grown as an ornamental plant for its strikingly shaped fruits, which resemble animal udders or nipples. Belonging to the Solanaceae family, it grows up to 1.5 meters tall, with dense green foliage and white to purple flowers. Despite its ornamental appeal, all parts of the plant are toxic and should be kept away from children and pets.
Eggplant
Solanum melongena
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a tropical and subtropical vegetable crop in the Solanaceae family, prized for its large, glossy, purple fruit. Native to India and Southeast Asia, it is now cultivated worldwide in warm climates. A bushy perennial grown as an annual, it reaches up to 1.8 m tall with star-shaped lavender flowers and fleshy fruit ranging from deep purple to white.
Black Nightshade
Solanum nigrum
Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) is a fast-growing cosmopolitan herbaceous weed in the Solanaceae family. Found worldwide in disturbed soils, roadsides, and gardens, it produces small white star-shaped flowers with yellow anthers and clusters of berries that ripen from green to shiny black. All green parts and unripe berries contain solanine, a toxic glycoalkaloid; ripe berries are consumed cautiously in some traditional cultures.
Currant Tomato
Solanum pimpinellifolium
Solanum pimpinellifolium, commonly known as the Currant Tomato or Wild Tomato, is the wild ancestor of all cultivated tomatoes. Native to Peru and Ecuador, it produces tiny, intensely sweet berries the size of currants. All green parts of the plant contain solanine and are toxic; only ripe fruits are edible.
Jerusalem Cherry
Solanum pseudocapsicum
Solanum pseudocapsicum, commonly known as Jerusalem Cherry or Winter Cherry, is an evergreen ornamental shrub native to South America (Peru and Ecuador). It is widely grown for its decorative berries that transition through green, yellow, orange, and red, persisting for months. CRITICAL WARNING: all berries and leaves are severely toxic to humans, cats, and dogs due to solanocapsine and solanine alkaloids.
Potato
Solanum tuberosum
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a starchy tuberous crop from the Andes of South America, cultivated for over 7,000 years. A member of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, it is now one of the world's most important food crops. The plant produces attractive white, pink, or purple flowers and nutritious underground tubers. CAUTION: All green parts of the plant contain solanine, a toxic alkaloid β only the healthy tubers are edible.
Red Nightshade
Solanum villosum
Solanum villosum, commonly called red nightshade or hairy nightshade, is a fast-growing annual herb in the tomato and potato family (Solanaceae). Native to Eurasia and now naturalized worldwide, it typically reaches 40-60 cm tall, with soft, hairy, toothed leaves and small clusters of white, star-shaped flowers. The flowers give way to round berries that ripen from green to red or yellow. In many parts of Africa and Asia, the young leaves and shoots are cooked and eaten as a nutritious leafy vegetable, but every part of the plant - especially the unripe green berries and raw foliage - contains the toxic glycoalkaloid solanine and should never be eaten raw or before fully ripe. Because it thrives in disturbed soil with minimal care, red nightshade is often treated as a fast-cycling kitchen-garden crop rather than a long-term ornamental.
Baby's Tears
Soleirolia soleirolii
Soleirolia soleirolii, commonly known as Baby's Tears, is a low-growing, mat-forming perennial native to the western Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia. It produces a dense carpet of tiny, rounded leaves on delicate, thread-like stems, creating a lush, moss-like appearance. Its dainty white flowers appear in spring and summer. Popular as a ground cover, terrarium plant, and houseplant, it thrives in high humidity and consistent moisture.
Painted Nettle
Solenostemon scutellarioides
Coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides) is a vibrant tropical foliage plant native to Southeast Asia, belonging to the mint family Lamiaceae. Renowned for its spectacular multicolored leaves featuring combinations of red, purple, orange, yellow, green, and pink, it is one of the most popular ornamental plants for both indoor and outdoor settings. Modern cultivars have been developed for sun or shade tolerance, making coleus incredibly versatile.
Goldenrod
Solidago
Solidago, commonly known as goldenrod, is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae), native mainly to North America. It forms upright clumps with stiff stems and dense golden-yellow flower clusters that bloom in late summer through fall, making it a favorite of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Tall Goldenrod
Solidago altissima
Tall Goldenrod (Solidago altissima) is a vigorous, rhizomatous perennial wildflower native to North America and a member of the aster family (Asteraceae). From late summer into autumn it produces dense, plume-like clusters of small golden-yellow flowers atop upright, downy stems reaching 60-180 cm tall. Highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, it spreads readily by creeping rhizomes and self-seeding, forming bold colonies in meadows, borders, and naturalized gardens. Despite its reputation, it is not the culprit behind hay fever - its heavy, sticky pollen is carried by insects, not wind.
Canada Goldenrod
Solidago canadensis
Solidago canadensis, commonly known as Canada Goldenrod, is a robust native North American perennial wildflower belonging to the Asteraceae family. It produces striking arching plumes of bright yellow flowers from late summer through fall, creating a spectacular display in meadows, prairies, and naturalized gardens. Fast-spreading via rhizomes and self-seeding, it is beloved by pollinators including bees, butterflies, and birds.
giant goldenrod
Solidago gigantea
Giant goldenrod (Solidago gigantea) is a vigorous herbaceous perennial in the Asteraceae family, native to North America. It grows up to 7 feet tall and produces large plumes of tiny golden-yellow flowers from late summer through fall. Widely cultivated as an ornamental and valued for its medicinal properties, it is also known as an aggressive spreader outside its native range.
Sow Thistle
Sonchus
Sonchus is a genus of fast-growing annual, biennial and occasionally perennial herbs in the daisy family (Asteraceae), commonly called sow thistles. They form a basal rosette of soft, deeply lobed, spiny-edged leaves and send up hollow, milky-sapped stems topped with small, dandelion-like yellow flowerheads. Widespread as a garden and field weed on every continent, sow thistles are edible, fast to establish, and remarkably tolerant of poor soil and disturbance.
Spiny Sowthistle
Sonchus asper
Annual to biennial herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family, native to the Mediterranean region and naturalized throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Sonchus asper is a common edible weed with considerable nutritional and medicinal value. It grows 30-150 cm tall with erect, hollow stems, deeply lobed leaves with prickly spiny margins, and yellow flowers resembling dandelions. Young tender leaves and shoot tips are edible raw or cooked, providing fiber, proteins, vitamins (niacin, ascorbic acid, thiamine, riboflavin), and minerals (calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, magnesium).
Common Sowthistle
Sonchus oleraceus
Common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is a fast-growing annual herb in the Asteraceae family, native to Europe and Western Asia and now naturalized worldwide. It thrives in disturbed soils, roadsides, and gardens, reaching up to 1.4 m tall. Its yellow daisy-like flowers attract bees and flies, and its young leaves are edible and rich in vitamin C.
Japanese Pagoda Tree
Sophora japonica
The Japanese Pagoda Tree (Sophora japonica, syn. Styphnolobium japonicum) is a deciduous tree in the Fabaceae family, native to China and Korea, which has long been cultivated around temples and imperial gardens in Japan. It grows to a height of 15β25 m, featuring a broad, spreading crown and pinnate leaves composed of 7 to 17 leaflets. In summer (JulyβAugust), it blooms with creamy-white, lightly fragrant flowers in long panicles that are highly attractive to bees. Due to its resistance to drought, urban pollution, and frost (zones 4aβ8b), it is frequently planted as a street and park tree. Because of its slow, resilient growth, thick bark, and ability to form aged, sculptural trunks, it is a popular species for bonsai.
KΕwhai
Sophora microphylla
The kΕwhai (Sophora microphylla) is an evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand, where it grows from coastal areas to low montane environments. It reaches between 13 and 26 feet in height in cultivation (up to 82 feet in the wild), featuring pinnate leaves with small leaflets and weeping branches. In spring, it produces clusters of striking, pendulous yellow flowers, considered the country's unofficial national flower. All parts, especially the seeds, are toxic as they contain the alkaloid cytisine.
Dwarf Kowhai
Sophora prostrata
Sophora prostrata is a small, slow-growing evergreen shrub native to the dry hill country of New Zealand's South Island, prized for its dense tangle of wiry, zigzagging branches and tiny compound leaflets. In late winter to spring it produces clusters of tubular, pea-like yellow flowers that give the wider kowhai genus its Maori name, meaning "yellow". The rigid, interlocking branch pattern (divarication) is thought to be an evolutionary defence against browsing by the now-extinct moa. Popular as a specimen shrub, low hedge, or bonsai subject, it tolerates coastal exposure and poor soils once established but needs full sun and sharp drainage to thrive.
Ural False Spirea
Sorbaria sorbifolia
Sorbaria sorbifolia is a vigorous, suckering deciduous shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae), native to the temperate forests of Siberia, the Russian Far East, northern China, Korea, and Japan. It forms an upright, multi-stemmed mound of fern-like, pinnately compound leaves that resemble mountain ash foliage, topped in early-to-mid summer by dense, pyramidal panicles of small white flowers that attract bees and other pollinators. Extremely cold-hardy and adaptable, it is prized in northern gardens for erosion control, mass plantings, and informal hedges, though its spreading root suckers mean it needs room to roam or regular edging.
Sorbaronia
Sorbaronia fallax
Γ Sorbaronia fallax is a deciduous, cold-hardy intergeneric hybrid shrub or small tree β a cross between black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) and European mountain ash / rowan (Sorbus aucuparia). It typically grows 2.5-4 m tall with a similar spread, showing broader leaves and noticeably larger fruit than wild Aronia. In spring it bears clusters of pinkish-white flowers, followed by dark reddish-purple to blue berries that ripen in late summer to autumn; foliage turns red, orange and yellow before falling. The plant is tetraploid and self-fertile, so a single specimen can set fruit without a pollinator partner. It was widely cultivated in the former Soviet Union, reputedly from early-20th-century breeding work by the Russian pomologist Ivan Michurin.
European Rowan
Sorbus aucuparia
The European Rowan is a hardy deciduous tree commonly found in Europe and Finland, growing 5β15 meters tall. In May, it blooms with fragrant, yellowish-white flower clusters, and in autumn, the tree is adorned with orange-red berry clusters, which are an important food source for birds. The Rowan is a sacred tree to ancient Finns and the regional plant of North Savo, tolerating both barren and richer growing sites exceptionally well.
Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a fast-growing annual or perennial cereal grass native to Africa, particularly the region spanning Ethiopia and Sudan. Cultivated for thousands of years, it is now the world's fifth most-produced cereal grain, grown for human food, livestock feed, ethanol production, and even as an ornamental garden plant in some cultivars. Its sturdy stalks can reach up to 4 meters tall, topped with a terminal panicle bearing seeds ranging from white to reddish-brown.
Johnson grass
Sorghum halepense
Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense) is an invasive perennial grass native to the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, naturalized in more than 50 countries. It grows upright and vigorously up to 2.4 meters tall, with lanceolate leaves up to 60 cm long featuring a characteristic white midrib. It produces purple or copper-brown panicles in summer and fall. It spreads aggressively through thick rhizomes and abundant seeds, displacing native vegetation and significantly reducing yields of crops such as corn and soybeans. It contains the cyanogenic glycoside dhurrin in all its vegetative tissues, making it SEVERELY TOXIC to livestock, especially under stress conditions.
Bur-reed
Sparganium
Sparganium, commonly known as bur-reed, is a genus of perennial aquatic and marginal wetland plants native to temperate regions across the Northern Hemisphere. Rising from creeping rhizomes, its narrow strap-like leaves and spiky, ball-shaped flower heads make it a striking addition to pond edges, bog gardens, and natural wetland restorations. Bur-reed thrives with its base submerged or in permanently saturated soil, playing an important ecological role by filtering water, stabilizing shorelines, and providing food and shelter for waterfowl and aquatic invertebrates.
African Hemp
Sparrmannia africana
The African Hemp (Sparrmannia africana) is a fast-growing evergreen shrub from the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to the open woodlands of South Africa near the Cape of Good Hope. In the wild, it grows to 4β8 m, though it remains significantly smaller as a houseplant. It has heart-shaped, finely lobed leaves covered in short hairs, which can cause mild irritation to sensitive skin. From late winter to summer, it produces white flowers with striking yellow and red stamens that react with movement when touched by insects.
Spanish Broom
Spartium junceum
Spartium junceum, commonly known as Spanish broom or weaver's broom, is a perennial shrub in the Fabaceae family, native to the Mediterranean basin. It is characterized by its green, slender, and flexible rush-like stems, which are almost leafless and perform a significant portion of the plant's photosynthesis. From late spring to summer, it produces abundant, intensely fragrant, butterfly-shaped yellow flowers, highly valued by pollinators. It is a hardy, drought-resistant shrub, widely used in Mediterranean gardening and for stabilizing slopes and poor soils.
Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum
The Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum) is one of the world's most beloved houseplants, prized for its elegant white spathe flowers and remarkable air-purifying abilities. Native to the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, it thrives indoors even in low-light conditions, making it a perfect choice for homes and offices. Its deep green, glossy leaves provide a lush backdrop to the striking white blooms that appear mainly in spring and summer.
Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum blandum
Spathiphyllum blandum is a perennial evergreen herbaceous plant native to the humid tropical forests of Venezuela and Guyana. Its deep green, glossy leaves beautifully contrast with elegant white spathe flowers, making it one of the most popular and graceful indoor plants worldwide.
Giant Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum cannifolium
Spathiphyllum cannifolium, commonly known as the Giant Peace Lily, is a tropical plant native to South America. It belongs to the Araceae family and is distinguished by its glossy dark-green leaves and elegant white flowers consisting of a spathe and spadix. It is one of the most widely cultivated indoor plants in the world, valued both for its ornamental beauty and its air-purifying capabilities.
Cupped Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum
Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum, commonly known as the Cupped Peace Lily, is one of the largest species in the genus, native to Mexico and Central America. It features broad, glossy dark-green leaves and elegant white spathes. CAUTION: Contains calcium oxalate and is toxic to cats, dogs, and humans.
Snowflower
Spathiphyllum floribundum
Spathiphyllum floribundum, commonly known as Snowflower or Dwarf Peace Lily, is a compact tropical species native to Colombia and Ecuador. It produces elegant white-to-greenish-white spathes and is prized for its air-purifying qualities and tolerance of low light conditions. Warning: contains calcium oxalate crystals β toxic to pets and humans if ingested.
Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum kochii
Spathiphyllum kochii, commonly known as the peace lily, is a compact evergreen perennial in the Araceae family, native to Colombia. Growing 30-40 cm tall, it forms dense clumps of dark green, wavy, lance-shaped leaves with prominent veins. Its signature white spathe curls elegantly around a creamy cylindrical spadix, typically blooming in spring and summer. It is one of the world's most popular houseplants, prized for its shade tolerance and air-purifying qualities.
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