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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Forget-me-not, a small, hairy, annual and perennial plant that grows in temperate areas throughout the earth.
See more »Forsythia, or Golden Bell, spring-blooming shrubs native to Asia. Easily grown from stem cuttings and shoots that rise from the roots, forsythias are widely grown as ornamentals.
See more »Four-o'clock, or Marvel of Peru, a flowering plant native to tropical America. The flowers open in the late afternoon on sunny days, earlier on cloudy days.
See more »Foxglove, a genus of about 25 species of Eurasian plants. The most important species is the common, or purple, foxglove, from which digitalis, a drug used to treat certain heart diseases, is obtained.
See more »Frangipani, a small tree native to tropical America. It is also called temple tree and red jasmine.
See more »Freesia, a genus of plants native to South Africa and widely cultivated elsewhere as winter-blooming plants.
See more »Fringe Tree, a handsome flowering shrub or tree named for the appearance of its clusters of snowy-white flowers.
See more »Fritillary, the common name of a genus of about 80 species of plants of the lily family that grow in north temperate areas.
See more »Fuchsia, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the evening primrose family. There are nearly 100 species of fuchsias Most of them are low shrubs, but others grow as trailing plants, climbers, and small trees.
See more »Gaillardia, or Blanket-flower, a genus of hardy herbs native to western North America, but widely grown elsewhere.
See more »Gardenia, -dēn'y$a, a large genus of Old World tropical shrubs and small trees, numbering more than 60 species.
See more »Gelsemium, a genus of woody evergreen vines. There are two species native to Asia.
See more »Gentian, a showy herb. There are about 400 species. Gentians are found in moist mountainous areas of all continents except Africa.
See more »Geranium, any of about 275 species of flowering herbs. The geranium grows well in temperate regions of all continents.
See more »Gilia, a flowering herb found in mountainous and desert areas in the western United States.
See more »Ginkgo, or Maidenhair Tree, a resinous tree native to eastern China. It is grown as an ornamental or street tree in North America, Europe, and Asia.
See more »Gladiolus, a perennial garden flower related to the iris. Gladioli are native chiefly to South Africa, but some originated in Asia and Europe.
See more »Glasswort, an annual wild herb native to the salt marshes of Europe, Asia, and North America.
See more »Gloxinia, a flowering herb native to Brazil. The gloxinia is a low-growing plant with long-stalked, rounded leaves.
See more »Godetia, a genus of about 25 species of plants native to the western parts of North and South America.
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