221 plants Encyclopedia tells everything kids want and need to know about pants and trees. Read them this vibrant collection now and help them learn about the green world around us.📖😊
1. Annual A plant that fully matures and produces seeds, anddies within one year. 2. Biennial A plant which completes its life cycle and dies withinthe second year. 3. Bloom To produce flowers 4. Cladode A shoot modified to assume the functions and usuallythe appearance of a leaf; often identifiable by arising in the axil …
• Common name : Zinnia, Youth-and-old-age • Scientific name : Zinnia elegans • Family : Asteraceae • Native land : Mexico Common zinnias are bushy, leafy annual plants. They have hairy, branching stems. The leaves of zinnia are arranged opposite to one another and they often clasp the stem. The solitary flower heads are borne …
• Common name : Common Yew, European Yew • Scientific name : Taxus baccata • Family : Taxaceae • Native land : Western, Central and Southern Europe, North- West Africa, Northern Iran and South-West Asia Yew is the most popular evergreen tree. It is known as the ‘tree of death’. The tree has spreading branches …
• Common name : Chinese Wisteria • Scientific name : Wisteria sinensis • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : China Chinese wisteria is a deciduous perennial climbing vine. It grows up to 25 feet. It has racemes of mildly fragrant, pea‑like, blue-violet flowers in May when the foliage is just beginning to expand. The …
• Common name : Ashwagandha, Winter Cherry, Indian Ginseng • Scientific name : Withaniasomnifera • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : India, North Africa and the Middle East Winter cherry is a short herbaceous perennial plant. It is an erect, many-branched shrub with very tiny green to yellow flowers. It grows well from hardwood …
• Common name : White Bryony, Wild Hop • Scientific name : Bryonia alba • Family : Cucurbitaceae • Native land : Europe and Northern Iran White bryony is a climbing perennial plant with vines. It can grow up to 50 feet tall. It has dark green, shiny leaves that resemble those of a cucumber …
• Common name : Watercress • Scientific name : Nasturtium officinale • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Europe and Asia Watercress is an emergent perennial aquatic herb. Older leaves are compound with many wavy-edged, oval or lance-shaped leaflets growing from a central stalk. It has thin and fibrous roots at the bottom. The …
• Common name : Water Shield, Dollar Bonnet, Fanwort • Scientific name : Braseniaschreberi • Family : Cabombaceae • Native land : North America, California Water shield is a small purple-flowered aquatic plant. It is found in northern ponds and still waters throughout the world, except in Europe. Each oval, floating leaf of water shield …
• Common name : Water Lettuce • Scientific name : Pistiastratiotes • Family : Araceae • Native land : Lake Victoria in Africa Water lettuce is a free-floating, frost-tender aquatic perennial. It produces rosettes of wedge-shaped, overlapping, fluted, velvety, soft green leaves. The leaves are covered with waterrepellant hair. The plant resembles the small open …
• Common name : Fishbone Water Fern, Forest Fern • Scientific name : Blechnumnudum • Family : Blechnaceae • Native land : Australia Fishbone water fern is a terrestrial, tufted fern of wet habitats. Blechnum species are commonly referred to as water ferns, as they are usually found in wet areas, growing in a variety …
• Common name : Cook’s Cabbage, New Zealand Spinach • Scientific name : Tetragoniatetragonioides • Family : Aizoaceae • Native land : New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Chile and Argentina It is a tender annual. The stems and the leaves of this spreading herb are covered with small, glistening, liquidfilled blisters. It is a sprawling plant …
• Common name : Heart’s Ease Johnny Jump Up • Scientific name : Viola tricolor • Family : Violaceae • Native land : Temperate Northern Hemisphere Most violas are small perennial plants, but a few are annual plants and some are small shrubs. The flower, variable in colour, but not red, usually grows singly on …
• Common name : Boston Ivy, Grape Ivy • Scientific name : Parthenocissustricuspidata • Family : Vitaceae Native land : China, Japan Boston ivy is a rapid-growing, deciduous, woody perennial vine. It is a vigorous tendril climber that needs no support. It clings to surfaces (e.g., brick, stone or wood walls) by adhesive holdfasts (also …
• Common name : Turnip • Scientific name : Brassica rapa subsp. rapa • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Europe It is a biennial that is grown as an annual. The plant can be harvested when mature or young. It can be cooked or eaten raw, and the young tops can be used …
• Common name : Tulip ‘Barcelona’ • Scientific name : Tulipa • Family : Liliaceae • Native land : Eurasia from Austria and Italy eastward to Japan It is a bulbous herb. The plants are generally found in a hilly country with extremely cold winters and hot dry summers. The stems are sturdy, making them …
• Common name : Tree Tobacco, Mexican Tobacco • Scientific name : Nicotianaglauca • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : North America It is an evergreen perennial. The plant is an erect, slender, sparsely-branched perennial, soft-woody shrub to small tree, flowering throughout the year. The plant bears yellow flowers if given a long enough …
• Common name : Tomato, Wolf Peach • Scientific name : Solanumlycopersicum • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : South America It is a short-lived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant. The plant has a weak woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. The fruit is an edible, brightly coloured (usually red, …
• Common name : Husk Tomato, Mexican Husk Tomato • Scientific name : Physalisphiladelphica • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : Mexico It is a small herb. All parts of the tomatillo plant are poisonous except the fruit, for which the plant is cultivated. This particular genus is characterised by the presence of pendant …
• Common name : Garden Thyme • Scientific name : Thymus vulgaris • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Southern Europe, the Mediterranean region, Asia Minor, and Central Asia The plant is a small, low-growing shrub with curled branches. It is a perennial with a woody, fibrous root. There are three varieties usually grown …
• Common name : Colocasia • Scientific name : Colocasiaesculenta • Family : Araceae • Native land : Wetlands of Malaysia Taro is a herbaceous plant. It became a staple crop, cultivated for its large, starchy, spherical underground tubers, which are consumed as cooked vegetables. Young taro leaves are commonly used in the cooking of …
• Common name : American Larch/Black Larch/Hackmatack • Scientific name : Larixlaricina • Family : Pinaceae • Native land : Eastern North America This plant is a small-to-medium-sized deciduous conifer. It is a forest tree of bogs/ swamps. The tree has a straight, slender trunk and a narrow, open, pyramidal crown. The leaves are deciduous, …
• Common name : Wuderove, Wood-rova • Scientific name : Galiumodoratum • Family : Rubiaceae • Native land : Europe, Northern Africa, Northern Asia Sweet woodruff is a flowering perennial plant. It has star-shaped fragrant leaves and small decorative white flowers. Bloom time is from April to June. It will spread naturally into an attractive …
• Common name : Sweet Pea • Scientific name : Lathyrusodoratus • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : Sicily, Southern Italy and the Aegean Islands It is a popular annual flower whose flowering time ranges from late spring to summer. The flowers grow in a cluster of 5 to 15 on stems arising from …
• Common name : British Myrrh, Garden Myrrh, Great Chervil, Myrrh • Scientific name : Myrrhisodorata • Family : Apiaceae • Native land : Southern Europe It is a tall, hardy perennial herb. The plant has bright green, 2- to 3-pinnate leaves and white flowers in umbels, followed by spindle-shaped fruits. The leaves are very …
• Common name : Summer Savory • Scientific name : Saturejahortensis • Family : Labiatae • Native land : Mediterranean region, South- Eastern Europe Summer savory is a hardy, pubescent annual, with slender erect stems. The plant blooms in spring to summer. It bears very small, pale lilac-pink flowers borne in widely spaced axillary whorls …
• Common name : Zucchini, Yellow Squash, Scalloped Squash, Patty Pan Squash • Scientific name : Cucurbitapepo • Family : Cucurbitaceae • Native land : North, Central and South America It is a tender easy-to-grow short-season annual. Most summer squash grow on compact vines, in contrast to the sprawling vines of most winter squash and …
• Common name : Cushion Spurge • Scientific name : Euphorbia epithymoides • Family : Euphorbiaceae • Native land : Central and Southern Europe and to Asia Minor It is a long-lived, drought-tolerant and non-spreading plant. It is a mounded clump-forming plant that is one of the best for borders. The plant bears dense, flattened …
• Common name : Spinach, Winter spinach • Scientific name : Spinaciaoleracea • Family : Chenopodiaceae • Native land : Asia, especially Afghanistan and Tajikistan Spinach is an annual plant, long cultivated for the sake of its succulent leaves. It is an easy-to-grow, nutritious, cool-season crop. The leaves are somewhat triangular and may be flat …
• Common name : Cow Lily, Yellow Pond Lily, Yellow Water Lily • Scientific name : Nupharadvena • Family : Nymphaeaceae • Native land : North America It is a perennial, herbaceous, emergent aquatic plant. The plant grows to the surface of the water from a thick horizontal root-stock. The stem is absent. The flowers …
• Common name : Garden Sorrel, Common Sorrel, Sour Dock • Scientific name : Rumexacetosa • Family : Polygonaceae • Native land : North Temperate Arctic Regions It is an erect perennial with edible, sour-tasting oblong leaves. The leaves are arrow-shaped at the base. Small reddish flowers appear in a narrow panicle or raceme. Plants …
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