Common Names of Plants- Click name for more information

A - I	J - Z
A	J
African olive	Jamaica vervain
ageratum	Jamaican feverplant
airplant	Japanese lovegrass
alahee	Javanese flatsedge
algaroba	jio
aloe	K
amaranth	kandaroma
American black nightshade	kiawe
American mangrove	kiss-me-quick
anena	klu
anil de pasto	Klu bush
Arabian jasmine	knotgrass
aroma	knotroot paspalum
Asiatic butterfly bush	koa haole
Asian swordfern	kou
asparagus fern	L
autograph tree	laurel fig
B	lantana
balsampear	largeleaf lantana
banana	lead tree
Barbados aloe	lesser bougainvillea
basora-prieta	light-blue snakeweed
beach dropseed	lilac tasselflower
beach morning glory	lovegrass
beach naupaka	love-in-a-mist
beach wiregrass	M
beggar's tick	Madagascar periwinkle
Benghal dayflower	mahoe
Bermudagrass	mangrove
bitter melon	Manila tamarind
black nightshade	manyspike flatsedge
blue morningglory	mesquite
bloodberry rougeplant	Mexican sandbur
bottle gourd	Mexican tea
boatlily, oyster plant	molasses grass
Bougainvillea	monarch fern
bowstring hemp	monkeypod
Brazilian bayhops	mottled spurge
Brazilian peppertree	N
breadfruit	naio
bristly foxtail	Natal redtop
broadleaf plantain	native caper
buckhorn plantain	native yellow purslane
buffelgrass	nettleleaf goosefoot
bullhead	nettle-leaf goosefoot
bushy asparagus	niruri
C	O
cadillo chisaca	oceanblue morning-glory
caltrop	oyster plant, boatlily
candlenut
cathedral bells	oval-leaf clustervine
century plant	P
chandelier plant	papaya
chick weed
Chinese banyan	paperflower
chisme	paper mulberry
Christmasberry	partidge pea
citrus	passionflower
clasping heliotrope	pawpaw
coastal waterhyssop	pickleweed
coat buttons	picridium
cobbler's pegs	pigweed
coffee senna	pigweed species
coconut palm	pikake
comb hyptis	pillpod sandmat
common bermudagrass	pill-pod sandmat
common brighteyes	pineapple
common calabash tree	plumeria
common plantain	Polynesian heliotrope
common purslane	popinac
coral berry	portiatree
coral tree	Portia tree
crested Philippine violet	prickly fanpetals
crimson fountaingrass	prickly pear cactus
crowfoot grass	prickly sida
cultivated tobacco	prostrate sandmat
cure for all	prostrate spurge
D	puncture vine
date palm	purple granadilla
devilgrass	Q
devil's backbone	quail plant
devil's horsewhip	R
Dixie tick trefoil	red mangrove
dogtail	red spiderling
dotted polypody	rippleseed plantain
E	rose Natal grass
East Indian crabgrass	rougeplant
Ellington curse	royal poinciana
euphorbia	S
F	salt heliotrope
false buttonweed	saltwort
false mallow	scaly swordfern
Faurie's panicgrass	scarletfruit passionflower
feather fingergrass	scarlet-fruited gourd
feather windmill grass	scarlet spiderling
ferns	Scotch attorney
Asian swordfern	sea hibiscus
scaly swordfern	seashore dropseed
fetid passionflower	seashore paspalum
Flora's paintbrush	seaside heliotrope
Florida beggarweed	seaside mahoe
Florida clusia	septicweed
Florida hopbush	shoreline seapurslane
	shower tree
Florida tasselflower	showy chloris
forked fimbry	shrubby fleabane
fountain grass	silkoak
fox tail agave	silky oak
frangipani	silver oak
G	sisal
garden tomato	sisal hemp
giant milkweed	slender amaranth
glossy nightshade	smooth flatsedge
goathead	smooth nutgrass
goosegrass	smooth pricklypoppy
graceful sandmat	sourbush
graceful spurge	Spanish needle
grasses	spiderflower
beach dropseed	spiderwisp
beach wiregrass	spider whisp
Bermudagrass	Sprenger asparagus
bristly foxtail	Sprenger's asparagus fern
buffelgrass	spineless agave
common bermudagrass	spiny amaranth
crowfoot grass	spiny amaranthus
crimson fountaingrass	spurge
devilgrass	stinking passionflower
East Indian crabgrass	sweet acacia
Faurie's panicgrass	sweet potato
feather fingergrass	sweetpotato
feather windmill grass	sweetscent
fountain grass	swollen fingergrass
goosegrass	T
guineagrass	Tahitian screwpine
knotgrass	tall fringe rush
knotroot paspalum	tanglehead
lovegrass	tarovine
molasses grass	templetree
Natal redtop	Texas huisache
rose Natal grass	Texas sandbur
seashore dropseed	tiger's claw
seashore paspalum	tiplant
showy chloris	threeflower ticktrefoil
swollen fingergrass	three-flowered beggarweed
wiregrass	tree heliotrope
grassland beggarticks	tridax
great plantain	tropical fimbry
guineagrass	tropical whiteweed
gum	tuna cactus
H	turtleweed
hairy Abutilon	V
hairy beggarticks	velvetleaf soldierbush
hairy honohono	Verdolaga-Francesa
hairy Indian mallow	W
	water hyssop
hairy spurge	wauke
Hawai'i beggarticks	weeping fig
Hawai'i desert-thorn	West Indian beggarticks
Hawai'i fimbry	West Indian sage
Hawaiian prickly poppy	white leadtree
heavenlyblue morning-glory	whisk fern
herb-of-grace	widgeongrass
hopbush	wild leadwort
hopseed bush	wild portulaca
huisache	wild spiderflower
I	wiregrass
Indian-fig	Y
Indian mulberry	yellow llima
Indian walnut	Z
indigo	Zulu giant
indigobush
ivy gourd

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