Nouns denoting plants
- Dirca palustris
- deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
- Siberian spruce
- tall spruce of northern Europe and Asia; resembles Norway spruce
- Phyllostachys nigra
- small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black
- Hieracium praealtum
- European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States; locally troublesome weeds
- Atropa belladonna
- perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine
- family Lophosoriaceae
- very small family of tree ferns
- Chinese lantern plant
- Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
- genus Botrychium
- grape fern; moonwort
- family Winteraceae
- small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae
- Cyperus alternifolius
- African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
- grape fern
- a fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases
- family Lemnaceae
- family of small free-floating thalloid plants
- pennyroyal oil
- oil from European pennyroyal having an odor like mint; used chiefly in soaps
- genus Richea
- evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania
- genus Selenipedium
- genus of tall reedlike tropical American orchids; includes species with pods used locally as a substitute for vanilla
- Erica arborea
- evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- Araucaria columnaris
- very tall evergreen of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides similar to norfolk island pine
- genus Andropogon
- tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions
- storax
- a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax
- Anemone Canadensis
- common summer-flowering woodland herb of Labrador to Colorado
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