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.
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Elephant's Ear, a large tropical plant grown in temperate areas for its handsome foliage.
See more »Elodea, a small herb that grows beneath the surfaces of freshwater ponds and rivers.
See more »Erysimum, or Blister Cress, a genus of about 85 species of small annual or perennial plants.
See more »Erythrina, or Coral Tree, a genus of usually thorny shrubs and trees, native chiefly to India and tropical Africa and America.
See more »Eucalyptus, a genus of about 600 species of evergreen trees and shrubs native mainly to Australia and Tasmania.
See more »Evening Primrose, a family and a genus of annual, biennial, and perennial plants native chiefly to North and Central America.
See more »Evergreen, a plant that retains its leaves throughout the year. The term evergreen is usually used in describing trees and shrubs.
See more »Everlasting, or Immortelle, any of several kinds of flowers that keep their color and shape when they dry.
See more »Fern, any one of a large class of flowerless, seedless plants. There are about 12 families, 260 genera, and at least 10,000 species.
See more »Feverfew, a perennial herb native to Europe. It was once believed to be effective against fever, and the name means “puts fever to flight.” Naturalized in North America, the feverfew grows along roadsides and in waste places.
See more »Fir, an evergreen cone-bearing tree. Young firs taper to a point at the top, but older trees vary in shape.
See more »Fireweed, a perennial plant that grows in temperate areas throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
See more »Flax, a genus of annual and perennial plants. Most flax is grown for fiber or for seed.
See more »Fleabane, a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbs with daisy-like flowers.
See more »Flora, a term used for plant life, or for a book describing the plant life, of a particular region or geological period.
See more »Flower, the part of an angiosperm (flowering plant) that contains the plant's reproductive organs.
See more »Flowering Maple, or Abutilon, a perennial flowering shrub of tropical America. Several varieties of a hybrid abutilon species are grown as ornamental plants.
See more »Flowering Plant, any plant that produces flowers. Flowers contain the reproductive organs of the plant.
See more »Flowering Tobacco, or Nicotiana, a genus of annual and perennial plants closely related to the tobacco plant.
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