Nouns denoting plants
- oblong leaf
- a simple leaf that is rounded at each end with parallel sides
- Cassiope mertensiana
- heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers
- genus Gelsemium
- evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia
- Hyoscyamus muticus
- poisonous herb whose leaves are a source of hyoscyamine
- cowpea
- fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
- Commiphora meccanensis
- small evergreen tree of Africa and Asia; leaves have a strong aromatic odor when bruised
- Heritiera macrophylla
- large evergreen tree of India and Burma whose leaves are silvery beneath
- Tussilago farfara
- perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly
- family Adiantaceae
- used in some classification systems for some genera of the family Polypodiaceae (or Pteridaceae)
- Dryopteris thelypteris
- fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regions
- genus Anthemis
- dog fennel
- Cornus amomum
- shrub of eastern North America having purplish stems and blue fruit
- Geranium molle
- western geranium with small pink flowers; a common weed on lawns and in vacant lots
- Lonicera dioica
- twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged yellow-green flowers; northeastern America
- palm
- any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
- Zinnia grandiflora
- subshrub having short leafy stems and numerous small flower heads with nearly round yellow-orange rays; Arizona south to Mexico and east to Kansas
- genus Narthecium
- bog asphodels; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae
- genus Commelina
- type genus of the Commelinaceae; large genus of herbs of branching or creeping habit: day flower; widow's tears
- Quercus lyrata
- medium-large deciduous timber tree of central and southern United States; acorns deeply immersed in the cup and mature in first year
- Nyssa sylvatica
- columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall
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