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Flowering plants, shrubs and trees provide the environment with much needed oxygen and fight soil erosion. They also provide food and shelter for many animals, as well as contribute to the fertility of soil with their dead leaves and flowers.
Rauwolfia Serpentina
Rauwolfia Serpentina, or Indian Snakeroot, a shrub of southeastern Asia. It is valued for its rootstock, from which the drug reserpine is obtained.
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Rhododendron, an ornamental shrub or tree of the heath family. The name comes from the Greek for rose tree.
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Rose, a perennial shrub with graceful flowers and thorny or hairy stems. The rose grows in temperate climates throughout the world and is a major flower crop in the United States and many other countries.
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Rose of Jericho, a desert plant of western Asia. The plant grows about six inches (15 cm) high.
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Rose of Sharon, or Althea, a shrub native to eastern Asia. It is widely cultivated for its showy flowers, which appear in late summer or early fall.
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Rubber. Natural rubber is a substance obtained from the milky juice, called latex, produced by a number of different kinds of plants.
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Rubber Plant, a tree native to tropical Asia and widely grown elsewhere as a house plant.
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Rue, a perennial plant of southern Europe. Oil from its leaves is used in medicine to relieve spasms and as a stimulant.
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Rush, a plant, usually a perennial, that grows in wetlands and in or near lakes and streams.
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Russian Thistle, a tumbleweed found in the Great Plains of the western United States.
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Rutabaga, the name of a plant and of its edible root. The roots are eaten by humans and are fed to livestock.
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Safflower, a commercially important annual herb native to Asia. Safflower is a thistlelike plant that can grow to a height of about three feet (90 cm).
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Sagebrush, a perennial shrub usually found in arid regions of western North America.
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Sago, a starch obtained from the trunks of several species of trees called sago palms, most of which are native to Indonesia.
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Salpiglossis, a genus of about eight species of annual or perennial herbs native to Chile.
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Sandalwood, the common name for several species of evergreen trees found from India east through Polynesia.
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Sansevieria, a genus of herbaceous perennial plants native to tropical and southern Africa and parts of Asia.
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Sassafras, an ornamental tree native to the eastern half of North America. The sassafras usually grows to a height of 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 m) but may be as tall as 90 feet (27 m).
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Savory, the common name for several aromatic herbs and low shrubs native to the warm regions of Europe and North Africa.
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Saxifrage, the common name for a large family of herbs, shrubs, woody vines, and trees, as well as for a genus of this family.
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