Introduction
Planting seasons
Plant characteristics
Plant naming
Common plant names
Botanic plant names
Weeds and weeding
Plant watering
Seed propagation
Vegetable growing
Garden fertilizers
Feeding lawns
Click the letter of the alphabet below to see common names by that initial.
Or click here to see the plants listed alphabetically by botanic name.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL
| Common name | Botanic name |
| Adam's needle | Yucca filamentose syn. Hesperoyucca | African daisy | Arctotis |
| African ebony | Dalbergia melanoxylon | African marigold | Tagetes erecta |
| African olive | Olea africana | African violet | Saintpaulia |
| Agapanthus | Agapanthus africanus | Ageratum | Ageratum |
| Agrimony | Agrimonia eupatoria | Aloe vera | Aloe |
| Alpine Azalea | Loiseleuria procumbent | Alpine lady's mantle | Alchemilla alpina |
| Alpine poppy | Papaver alpinum | Alpine strawberry | Fragaria versca |
| Alpine wallflower | Erysimum alpinum | Alum root | Heuchera cylindrica |
| Alum root | Heuchara micranthus | Alyssum | Alyssum maritimum syn. Lobularia maritima |
| Alyssum | Alyssum saxatile compactum syn. Aurinia saxatilis | Amaranthus | Amaranthus |
| Amaryllis | Amaryllis | American mahonia | Mahonia aquifolium |
| Anemone | Anemone multifida | Anemone | Anemone blanda |
| Anemone | Anemone x hybrida | Angels' trumpets | Brugmansia syn. datura |
| Apothecary's Rose | Rosa gallica officinalis | Apple | Malus domestica |
| Apple mint | Mentha rotundiflora syn. M. suaveolens | Arum lily | Zantedeschia aethiopica |
| Asian mahonia | Mahonia japonica | Asparagus | Asparagus officinalis |
| Aster | Aster x frikartii | Aster | Aster novi-belgii |
| Aster | Aster novae-angliae | Aster | Aster lateriflorus |
| Aster | Aster ericoides | Aster | Aster cordifolius |
| Aster | Aster | Astilbe | Astilbe |
| Aubergine | Solanum melongena | Aubrieta | Aubrieta |
| Aubrietia | Aubrietia | Autumn daffodil | Sternbergia lutea |
| Avens | Geum chiloense | Avens | Geum coccineum |
| Azalea | Rhododendron | Artichoke, Globe artichoke | Cynara cardunculus |
| Artichoke, Cardoon | Cynara cardunculus | Artichoke | Stachys affinis |
| Aquilegia | Aquilegia | Artichoke | Helianthus tuberosus |
| Aaron's Beard | Hypericum calycinum |
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