Nouns denoting plants
- Athyrium distentifolium
- a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
- loosestrife
- any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia
- Toxicodendron radicans
- climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact
- Zea mays indentata
- corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity
- genus Artemisia
- usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon
- genus Eryngium
- large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution
- Fritillaria recurva
- western United States herb with scarlet and yellow narrow bell-shaped flowers
- Gossypium peruvianum
- cotton with long rough hairy fibers
- portulaca
- a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers
- Cucurbita maxima
- plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
- Habenaria lacera
- fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
- genus Calceolaria
- large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers
- Matteuccia struthiopteris
- tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- buckthorn
- any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
- Melicocca bijugatus
- tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
- Clatonia lanceolata
- small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
- genus Pediocactus
- low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America
- Colocasia esculenta
- herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
- genus Rumex
- docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions
- rootstalk
- a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
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