Common Names of Plants - Click name for more information

A	F	M	S
African dropseed	false daisy	macadamia nut	Sacramento bur
African tulip tree	false mallow	Madagascar periwinkle	sadlera fern
'ahea,	false sandalwood	Madeira vine	sandalwood
'aheahea	false staghorn	mahoe	sawsedge
'ahewahewa	fingergrass	mahoe	scaly swordfern
alaweo	fireweed	maile-scented fern	scarlet pimpernel
aloe	fir-leaved celery	Malayan banyan	sea bean
air plant	five-finger maidenhair	Malayan orchid	sea grape
algaroba	flatsedges	Malay apple	sea hibiscus
alligator pear	fleabane	mango	seashore rushgrass
annual bluegrass	Flora's paintbrush	mangrove	seaside heliotrope
annual saltmarsh aster	Florida beggarweed	Manila tamarind	seaside mahoe
apple of Sodom	Florida hopbush	marijuana	sedges
Arabian coffee	forked fimbry	marsh fleabane	sensitive plant
Asian nakedwood	Formosa koa	marsh pennywort	shampoo ginger
Asian snakewood	four-o'clock	Mauritius hemp	sheepgrass
Asiatic pennywort	foxtail	mayweed	shoreline seapurslane
asparagus fern	fringed orchid	McCoy grass	sickle spleenwort
asplenium	fuzzy rattlepod	meadow ricegrass	silkoak
Australian saltbush		mesquite	silky oak
autograph tree	G	Mexican creeper	silverfern
avocato	garden spurge	Mexican fire plant	silver oak
'aweoweo	giant toad plant	Mexican poppy	small yellow crown-beard
	giant uluhe	molasses grass	smartweed
B	Glenwood grass	monkeypod	smooth pricklypoppy
balsam pear	glorybush	moon flower	smooth rattlepod
bamboo fern	glossy nightshade		smutgrass,
	golden beardgrass	mountain apple	sourbush
banana	goldfern	mountain rose	sourgrass
basketgrass	goosefoot	mulberry	soursop
basora-prieta	goose grass		sow thistle
barnyard grass	gray fern	N	Spanish clover
beach dropseed	gray nickers	narrow-leaved carpetgrass	spiderling
beach morning glory	guinea grass	narrow-leaved plantain,	spikegrass
beach naupaka		Natal redtop	spikerush
beach pea	H	native cudweed	spiny amaranth
beach vitex	hairgrass	native yellow purslane	spleenwort
beaksedge	hairy abutilon	nettleleaf velvetberry	spreading mist flower
beardgrass	hairy honohono	New Zealand laurel	spurflower
beggartick	hairy horseweed	New Zealand spinach	stag's tongue
Bermuda grass	hairy Indian mallow	niruri	stag's tongue fern
bird's nest fern	hairy spurge	nodeweed	St. Augustine grass
bittercress	hairy stag's tongue		St. John's wort
	hammock fern	O	sticky snakeroot
bitter herb,	Hawaiian bow fern	Oahu wormwood	strawberry guava
bitter yam	Hawaiian moon flower	octopus tree	Surinam cherry
black nightshade	Hawaiian prickly poppy	oleander	swamp cyclosorus
blanket flower	Hawaiian schiedea	oriental hawksbeard	swamp mahogany
bloodflower	Hawai'i desert-thorn		sweet alyssum
bloodwood	Hawaii potato fern	P	sweet clockvine
blue rat's-tail	hedgehog gourd	palm fern	sweet potato
bracken fern	heliotrope	papaya	swinecress
branched spikemoss	henbit	paperbark	swollen fingergrass
brass bottons	Henry's crabgrass	partridge pea	sword fern
Brazilian peppertree	Hilo grass	passion fruit	Sydney blue gum
breadfruit	hibiscus	paper mulberry
broad-leaved plaintain	hollyfern	pepperwort	T
brome fescue	hopbush	Philippine orchid	tamarind
bromegrass	hopseed bush	Philippine violet	taro
broomsedge	horseweed	pigweed	tarweed
buckthorn		pigweed	teasel gourd
bufflegrass	I	pine	thatching grass
buffalo grass	Indian almond	pitanga	thimbleberry
bull thistle	Indian mulberry	pokeweed	thistle
bulrush	Indian shot	pololo	thyme-leaved sandwort
bur bush	indigo	Portia tree	thyme-leaved speedwell
buttercup	ironweed	portiatree,	tickclover
butterfly weed	itchy crabgrass	pot	toad rush
		prickly fanpetals	tree fern
C	J	prickly Florida blackberry	tropical almond
candle bush	Jamaica vervain	prickly pear	tropical ash
candlenut	jambolan plum	prickly sida	twigrush
canna	Japanese mat rush	pride-of-India
carpetgrass	Java plum	primrose willow	U
castor bean	jewel orchid	prostrate spurge	uhaloa
cat's ear	Jimson weed	purple cudweed
century plant	Job's tears		V
chamomile		R	Vasey grass
cheese weed	K	rabbit-foot clover	Venus hair
cherry tomato	kaha'iha'i	rabbit's-foot fern	vernalgrass
chick weed	karakanut	radiate fingergrass	vervain
chili clover	kauna'oa	rasp fern
Chinaberry	kauna'oa kahakai	rattlepod	W
China laurel	kauna'oa lei	rattlesnake weed	watercress
Chinese banyan	kauno'a	red mangrove	water hyssop
Chinese violet	kava	reedgrass	West Indian dropseed,
chisme	Kentucky bluegrass	ricegrass	West Indian sage
Christella cyatheoides	kihifern	rose	whisk fern
Christmasberry	klu	rose apple	white ginger
Christmas tree clubmoss	kiss me quick	royal spleenwort	white passion flower
clubmoss	kiss-me-quick	rush	white thunbergia
coast sandalwood	knotweed,		widgeon grass
coat buttons	Koster's curse		wild bean
cocklebur	kyllinga		wild ginger
coconut			wild poinsetta
coffee senna	L		wild portulaca,
Colombian cuphea	lace fern		woodland false buttonweed
comb hyptis	lacy spleenwort		wood rush
common chickweed	lama		wood sorrel
common guava	lamb's quarters
common ironwood	life plant		X
common maidenhair	lion's ear
common mouse-ear chickweed	little quaking grass		Y
common plantain	logwood		yellow alder
common purslane	loosestrife		yellow dock
common rush	loulu palm
common sandbur	lovegrass		yellow foxtail
common sword fern			yellow ginger
common velvet grass			yellow llima
Cook Island pine			yellow wood sorrel
corn speedwell
cow pea			Z
crabgrass			zulu-giant
creeping kukaepua'a
crown-beard
crown flower
cultivated tobacco
curly dock
D
daisy fleabane
Dallis grass
dandelion
date palm
Deptford pink
devil's gut
ditchgrass
dog tail
dogweed
downy wood fern
duckweed
dwarf naupaka
dwarf plantain
E
elama
elephant's foot
European centaury
everlasting

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