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Garden Verbena
Verbena hybrida
Verbena hybrida, commonly known as Garden Verbena, is a semi-evergreen flowering plant originating from South America. It produces clusters of small, vividly colored flowers in shades of purple, red, pink, white, lavender, and coral. Widely grown as an annual in temperate climates, it thrives in full sun and is popular for hanging baskets, window boxes, and garden borders.
Common Vervain
Verbena officinalis
Common vervain (Verbena officinalis) is a herbaceous perennial in the Verbenaceae family, native to Europe and now naturalized across temperate regions worldwide. It forms upright clumps 60-90 cm tall with opposite, deeply lobed and toothed leaves, and produces slender, wiry flower spikes bearing small tubular lilac to pale purple flowers from summer into early fall. A tough, easy-to-grow plant, it has been prized as a medicinal herb since ancient Roman times.
Slender Vervain
Verbena rigida
Verbena rigida is a low-growing, spreading perennial native to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay, prized for its rough, sandpaper-textured leaves and dense clusters of vivid purple-magenta flowers. It forms a mat-like groundcover via underground rhizomes and blooms continuously from late spring through fall, making it a favorite for sunny borders, rock gardens, and pollinator plantings.
Golden Crownbeard
Verbesina encelioides
Verbesina encelioides, commonly known as Golden Crownbeard or Cowpen Daisy, is a hardy annual herb in the sunflower family. It is recognized by its grayish-green, triangular leaves and vibrant yellow daisy-like flowers with notched petals. It is highly adaptable to disturbed soils and arid environments, often forming dense colonies.
Speedwell
Veronica
Veronica, commonly known as Speedwell, is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, comprising over 500 species. Native mainly to Europe, these cheerful perennials produce tall, slender spikes of small four-petaled flowers in shades of blue, purple, pink, and white from spring through fall. Their upright, wand-like flower spikes make them stand out in cottage gardens, borders, and naturalistic plantings. Groundcover types spread low and are excellent for rock gardens and erosion control.
Germander Speedwell
Veronica chamaedrys
Veronica chamaedrys is a low-growing herbaceous perennial native to Europe, belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. This hardy wildflower features creeping stems that form dense mats up to 50 cm wide, producing striking deep blue flowers with white centers from spring through early summer. The leaves are opposite, triangular, and finely toothed. Highly adaptable and low-maintenance, it excels as a ground cover in wildlife gardens, wildflower meadows, and natural lawns. Extremely cold-hardy and recognized with the RHS Award of Garden Merit.
New Zealand Hebe
Veronica speciosa
Veronica speciosa, commonly known as the New Zealand Hebe or showy hebe, is a dense evergreen shrub native to the coastal cliffs of New Zealand's North Island. Prized for its glossy, leathery leaves and striking spikes of deep pink to purple flowers that bloom through summer, it forms a compact, rounded mound perfect for coastal and city gardens. Highly salt-tolerant, it thrives in exposed seaside positions while also making an excellent low-maintenance ornamental shrub inland.
Spiked Speedwell
Veronica spicata
Veronica spicata, commonly known as Spiked Speedwell, is a hardy perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. It produces striking upright spikes of tiny blue, purple, pink, or white flowers in summer, making it a favourite in cottage gardens and pollinator-friendly borders. A vigorous, low-maintenance plant that thrives in full sun with well-drained soil.
Chinese Snowball Viburnum
Viburnum macrocephalum
Viburnum macrocephalum, known as the Chinese snowball viburnum, is a rounded, vase-shaped deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub native to mainland China. It is prized for its enormous spherical flower clusters, which open lime-green and mature to pure white, resembling giant snowballs held above dark green, serrated leaves.
Sweet Viburnum
Viburnum odoratissimum
Sweet Viburnum (Viburnum odoratissimum) is a large, fast-growing evergreen shrub prized across warm climates for its dense, glossy foliage and its ability to form an impenetrable privacy hedge in just a few seasons. Native to East and Southeast Asia, it produces broad, leathery, deep-green leaves and, in late spring to early summer, showy conical clusters of small white flowers with a sweet, honey-like fragrance that gives the plant its name. The flowers are followed by small red fruits that ripen to black. Left unpruned, Sweet Viburnum can reach 4-6 m tall and wide, but it takes shearing extremely well and is one of the most popular screening and hedging shrubs in subtropical and warm-temperate landscapes.
Vetch
Vicia
Vicia is a large genus of climbing and scrambling legumes commonly called vetches, native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. With over 240 species, vetches are best known as nitrogen-fixing cover crops and livestock forage, though some species have been cultivated as food for thousands of years. Their slender, trailing stems climb via tendrils, bearing pea-like flowers in shades of purple, pink, blue, and white from spring through summer.
Lentil
Vicia lens
The lentil (Vicia lens) is an annual legume native to Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean, cultivated for over 9,000 years. A short-cycle crop producing small protein- and fiber-rich seeds, it is one of the oldest food plants in human history.
Black-eyed pea
Vigna unguiculata
The black-eyed pea (Vigna unguiculata) is an annual legume native to West Africa, widely grown across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Recognized by its distinctive black spot around the hilum, it is one of humanity's oldest and most nutritious food crops, rich in protein, fiber, and micronutrients. It also plays a vital role in soil health by fixing atmospheric nitrogen.
Sweet Violet
Viola
Sweet Violet (Viola) is a low, spreading perennial prized for its heart-shaped leaves and small, deeply fragrant purple, blue, or white flowers that open in early spring. Native to Europe and temperate Asia, it forms neat rosettes that creep gently by runners, making it a classic choice for shaded borders, woodland gardens, and containers. Both flowers and leaves are edible and have been used since antiquity for perfume, confectionery, and folk medicine.
Field Pansy
Viola arvensis
Viola arvensis, the field pansy, is a low-growing annual to biennial wildflower native to Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa. It forms a basal rosette of spoon-shaped leaves with bluntly toothed edges and produces small, five-petaled flowers usually creamy white to pale yellow with a purple-flecked lower petal, though color can vary. Widely naturalized, it thrives in disturbed soils, meadows, and cultivated fields, flowering from early spring through fall.
Sweet Violet
Viola odorata
Sweet violet is a low-growing, hardy herbaceous perennial native to Europe and western Asia, prized for its sweetly fragrant purple or white flowers and heart-shaped leaves. It spreads via stolons to form a dense flowering mat, making it a popular ground cover for shaded borders and woodland gardens.
Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
Viola sororia, commonly known as the Common Blue Violet or Wood Violet, is a native North American herbaceous perennial celebrated for its charming blue-purple spring flowers. It thrives in moist, shaded woodland edges, meadows, and naturalistic gardens. Hardy from zones 3a to 7b, it self-seeds freely and spreads via rhizomes, making it an excellent low-maintenance ground cover for shaded areas.
Wild Pansy
Viola tricolor
Wild Pansy (Viola tricolor) is a small herbaceous plant native to Europe and Western Asia, considered the wild ancestor of modern cultivated pansies. It produces charming tricolor flowers in shades of purple, yellow, and white, blooming from winter through summer.
Pansy
Viola x wittrockiana
Viola x wittrockiana, commonly known as Pansy, is a hybrid flowering plant developed from European wild violets. One of the most beloved cool-season bedding plants, pansies produce cheerful, velvety blooms with distinctive "face-like" markings in a wide range of colors. They thrive in cool temperatures and are commonly planted in spring and fall gardens.
Chaste tree
Vitex
Vitex is a genus of aromatic, sun-loving shrubs and small trees, best known from the cultivated chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus). These deciduous plants grow to about 3-6 m and produce showy summer spikes of fragrant purple, blue, pink or white flowers above palmate, grey-green foliage.
Chaste Tree
Vitex agnus-castus
Vitex agnus-castus, commonly known as chaste tree or monk's pepper, is a deciduous Mediterranean shrub in the Lamiaceae family. It produces fragrant spikes of lavender-blue flowers throughout summer and fall, attracting butterflies and pollinators. Highly drought-tolerant and adaptable, it has centuries of history as a medicinal herb.
Puriri
Vitex lucens
Puriri (Vitex lucens) is a majestic evergreen tree endemic to northern New Zealand. It can reach up to 20 metres tall with a massive spreading canopy, glossy palmate leaves, and tubular pink-to-red flowers that bloom year-round. It is one of New Zealand's most iconic native trees, providing critical food and habitat for native birds such as the kererΕ« (native pigeon).
Tubular Knapweed
Volutaria tubuliflora
Tubular Knapweed (Volutaria tubuliflora) is an annual herb in the Asteraceae family, native to North Africa and the Mediterranean Basin. Recognized by its pink-purple tubular flowers and deeply lobed hairy leaves, it thrives in sandy, arid to semi-arid environments. It is considered an invasive species in California, USA, where it poses a threat to native desert ecosystems, producing up to 2,500 seeds per plant.
Vriesea
Vriesea
Vriesea is a genus of approximately 250 epiphytic bromeliads native to the Americas, particularly Central and South America. They form tank-shaped rosettes with long, often ornamentally banded or spotted leaves. The dramatic, flat flower spikes display vibrant bracts in shades of red, yellow, orange, and pink that last for weeks.
Lobster Claws Bromeliad
Vriesea carinata
Vriesea carinata, commonly known as Lobster Claws Bromeliad or Painted Feather, is an epiphytic bromeliad native to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. It is prized for its stunning red and yellow flower bracts that resemble lobster claws. A compact, low-maintenance plant ideal for indoor tropical settings.
King of Bromeliads
Vriesea hieroglyphica
Tank bromeliad with distinctive banded green leaves featuring dark cross-banding and recurved tips, resembling hieroglyphic markings. Produces branching yellow, cream, or white flowers on tall inflorescences. Endemic to southeastern Brazil, thriving in humid conditions beneath tree shade.
Barren Strawberry
Waldsteinia ternata
Barren strawberry (Waldsteinia ternata) is a low-growing, semi-evergreen perennial groundcover belonging to the Rosaceae family. It is native to a region spanning from Central Europe to Siberia and Japan. Its trifoliate, dark green leaves form a dense mat that effectively covers the ground throughout the growing season. The foliage remains green under the snow and recovers quickly in the spring. In May, the plant bursts into yellow blooms that resemble strawberry flowers. Barren strawberry is very low-maintenance and is an excellent choice for a groundcover in semi-shaded gardens.
California Fan Palm
Washingtonia filifera
Washingtonia filifera, the California fan palm (also called desert fan palm), is a massive, single-trunked palm native to desert oases of the southwestern United States. It is the only palm species native to the western United States and forms dense groves around natural springs in the Colorado and Mojave deserts. Mature palms develop a thick, fibrous gray-brown trunk topped with a crown of large, fan-shaped (palmate) leaves that can reach 1.5-2 m across, each armed with curling filaments along the leaf margins that give the species its epithet "filifera" (thread-bearing). Older, uncultivated specimens often retain a skirt of dead fronds hanging down the trunk, earning it the nickname "petticoat palm."
Mexican Fan Palm
Washingtonia robusta
Washingtonia robusta, commonly known as the Mexican Fan Palm or Skyduster, is a fast-growing palm native to Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. Prized for its slender towering trunk and large fan-shaped fronds, it can reach up to 30 meters tall and is widely planted along boulevards, in parks, and in warm-climate gardens worldwide.
Old Fashioned Weigela
Weigela florida
Weigela florida, commonly known as Old Fashioned Weigela, is a deciduous flowering shrub native to northern China and Korea. It is celebrated for its profuse, trumpet-shaped blooms in shades of pink, red, and white that emerge in late spring and early summer, making it a beloved choice for garden borders and foundation plantings. Its arching branches create an elegant silhouette, and modern cultivars offer a wide range of foliage colors from deep burgundy to variegated cream.
Coastal Rosemary
Westringia fruticosa
Westringia fruticosa, commonly known as Coastal Rosemary, is a hardy evergreen shrub native to coastal areas of southeastern Australia. Despite its common name and rosemary-like foliage, it is not related to true rosemary but belongs to the mint family (Lamiaceae). It produces an abundance of small white to lavender flowers almost year-round, making it a popular ornamental shrub in Australian and Mediterranean-style gardens.
Maritime sunburst lichen
Xanthoria parietina
Xanthoria parietina, commonly known as the maritime sunburst lichen or common orange lichen, is a highly resilient lichen species often seen on rocks, walls, and tree bark. Its characteristic bright yellow or orange color is provided by a pigment called parietin, which protects the cells from intense UV radiation. This species lives in symbiosis, with its body composed of a fungus and an alga. It is an excellent bioindicator, as it tolerates nitrogen-rich environments well but remains sensitive to certain types of air pollution.
Oriental False Hawksbeard
Youngia japonica
Oriental False Hawksbeard (Youngia japonica) is an annual or biennial herb in the Asteraceae family, native to East Asia (Japan, Korea, and China), and now naturalized in various tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, including Brazil. It forms a basal rosette of oblanceolate, lobed leaves from which branched stems emerge, bearing small yellow flower heads. It is a hardy, fast-growing plant commonly found in gardens, flowerbeds, nurseries, and sidewalk cracks, and is considered invasive in several countries. Its young leaves are edible, and the species has traditional uses in Asian folk medicine.
Corn
Zea mays
Zea mays, commonly known as corn or maize, is an annual grass native to Mesoamerica. It is one of the world's most important crops, characterized by its rapid growth, sturdy stalks, and the production of ears enclosed in husks. Beyond its economic importance, it is a plant of great cultural and nutritional value for many civilizations.
Kangaroo Fern
Zealandia pustulata
Zealandia pustulata, commonly known as the kangaroo fern or hound's tongue fern, is an epiphytic and lithophytic fern native to New Zealand, eastern Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania), Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. In the wild it climbs over rocks, tree trunks and forest floor debris via long, creeping grey-green rhizomes, producing leathery, glossy green fronds that range from simple to deeply lobed. Formerly classified under Microsorum and Phymatosorus, it was moved to its own genus, Zealandia, in 2019. Slow-growing but tough and adaptable, it is prized as a low-maintenance houseplant, hanging basket subject, or shaded ground cover, tolerating periods of drought once established and rarely troubled by pests or disease.
Japanese Zelkova
Zelkova serrata
Zelkova serrata, commonly known as Japanese Zelkova or Keaki, is a graceful deciduous tree native to Japan, China, and Korea. A member of the elm family (Ulmaceae), it is celebrated for its vase-shaped canopy, serrated leaves that turn brilliant shades of orange, red, and burgundy in autumn, and its distinctive honeycomb-patterned bark. Widely planted as an urban shade tree, it is also one of the most revered subjects in the art of bonsai.
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