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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.
Blazing Star
Blazing Star, the common name of several North American wild plants. One species, also called button snakeroot and gay feather, belongs to the composite family and grows in North America as far west as Texas.
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Bleeding Heart, a showy plant bearing flower clusters that droop gracefully. Each blossom resembles a hanging heart.
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Bloodroot, a wildflower of eastern North America. The plant is a member of the poppy family, and appears early in spring.
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Blue-eyed Grass, an American wildflower of the iris family. The leaves are narrow and grasslike.
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Bluebell, a popular name for several plants having blue, bell-shaped flowers. The harebell, or bluebell of Scotland, grows in meadows and on rocky slopes in Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Bluet, also called Quaker Lady and Innocence, a spring wild flower native to North America.
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Bottle Tree, an Australian tree named for its swollen, bottle-shaped trunk, which stores water.
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Bougainvillea, a tropical vine noted for the beauty of the large, colorful bracts (leaflike organs) that surround its flowers.
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Box, or Boxwood, a genus of evergreen shrubs and trees native to Asia, southern Europe, northern Africa, the West Indies, and Central America.
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Box Elder, or Ash-leaved Maple, a hardy species of maple tree native to eastern and central temperate North America.
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Bracken, or Brake, a common woodland fern. The fronds (leaves) of the bracken are divided into many segments.
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Bramble, a common name for prickly shrubs of the rose family. Brambles include the blackberry, the raspberry, and similar shrubs.
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Brier, or Briar, an evergreen shrub belonging to the heath family. It is native to the Mediterranean region.
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Buckeye, a forest tree related to the maple and box elder. It reaches a height of 30 feet (9 m) or more.
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Buckthorn, one of a large group of trees or shrubs, most of which are native to north temperate regions.
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Buckwheat, a cultivated plant related to rhubarb. Its seed, also called buckwheat, is used as a cereal.
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Bulrush, any one of many large, rushlike plants found in marshy land and in water.
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Burdock, a coarse biennial plant that is often a weed. It resembles the thistle, but only the flower head and fruits are prickly.
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Burning Bush, a shrub of North America closely related to the spindle tree. It has elliptical, saw-toothed leaves and bears fruit in the form of berries within lobed capsules.
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Buttercup, or Crowfoot, a plant native mostly to northern temperate areas. Most of the 250 species of buttercups are wildflowers; a few species are planted in gardens or used as houseplants.
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