A to Z for genus list
Introduction
Glossary
Terms and conditions
To find a plant:
1. Click on the first letter of the genus in the A to Z list above
2. Scroll down the genus list and select a genus.
3. Scroll down the plant list to view each plant with a brief description including height and preferred situation.
Key to symbols
new this year
sun
semi-shade
shade
ready in July
bulb
likes boggy areas
happy anywhere
liked by bees
grass
likes troughs
Glossary
awn a slender bristle-like terminal part, i.e. grass flowers
bract scale or leaf-like upper leaf surrounding a flower or inflorescence, or from whose axil the flowers arise.
cordate heart-shaped, with the point at the tip
labiate having lips, or lip like parts, i.e. nettle flowers
linear very narrow, as a straight line
ovate egg-shaped
palmate, digitate branched or lobed like the fingers of a hand
pinnate in two opposite rows along a common axis
rosette an arrangement of leaves, usually at the base of the stem
sagittate arrow head-shaped
sessile stalkless
spathe a sheath enclosing a flower branch
syn. synonym
umbel umbrella-shaped inflorescence, with flower stalks all arising from the same point