Nouns denoting plants

Urocystis tritici

fungus affecting leaves and stems of wheat

 

Selaginella eremophila

prostrate spikemoss; California

 

Clitoria mariana

large-flowered wild twining vine of southeastern and central United States having pale blue flowers

 

Saccharum officinarum

tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar

 

genus Indigofera

genus of tropical herbs and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and spurred flowers in long racemes or spikes

 

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis

densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies

 

fairy circle

a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium

 

Salix nigra

North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes

 

buckthorn

any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

 

Quercus prinoides

deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets

 

Phaseolus aconitifolius

East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

 

involucre

a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence

 

old growth

forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity

 

prairie rocket

any of several North American plants of the genus Erysimum having large yellow flowers

 

babacu oil

fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil

 

Tetraneuris grandiflora

whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States

 

mycelium

the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae

 

gill fungus

a basidiomycete with gills

 

genus Bletia

genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers

 

genus Gastrocybe

a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae