Plants — 23,508 Species

Streaked Rock Orchid

Dendrobium striolatum Rchb.f.

Dendrobium striolatum is a lithophytic Australian orchid with streaked petals and sepals that grows on rock surfaces.

Giant Bamboo

Dendrocalamus giganteus Munro

Dendrocalamus giganteus Munro is a very large clumping bamboo used for construction, weaving, and as edible shoots.

Giant Stinging Tree

Dendrocnide excelsa (Wedd.) Chew

Dendrocnide excelsa, the giant stinging tree, is a large Australian rainforest tree covered in stinging hairs, with historical use of its fibres by Indigenous people.

Dendrocnide meyeniana (Walp.) Chew

Dendrocnide meyeniana (Walp.) Chew

Dendrocnide meyeniana, the poisonous wood nettle, is a stinging urticaceous tree native to Taiwan and the Philippines with cultural and medicinal uses.

Dendroligotrichum tongariroense (Colenso) Tangney

Dendroligotrichum tongariroense (Colenso) Tangney

Dendroligotrichum tongariroense is a tall moss species native to New Zealand with distinct morphological features that separate it from close relatives.

prickly tree-clubmoss

Dendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines

Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, tree groundpine, is a North American clubmoss also native to Russia, with historical decorative and photographic uses.

Hickey's tree-clubmoss

Dendrolycopodium hickeyi (W.H.Wagner, Beitel & R.C.Moran) A.Haines

Dendrolycopodium hickeyi is a tree club-moss native to northeastern North America, found in shaded sandy conifer forests.

flat-branched tree-clubmoss

Dendrolycopodium obscurum (L.) A.Haines

Dendrolycopodium obscurum is a small conifer-like lycophyte that has been harvested for wreaths and flash powder, and is protected in some US states.

Bush Poppy

Dendromecon rigida Benth.

Dendromecon rigida Benth. is a small evergreen shrub native to western North America, grown as an ornamental for drought-tolerant gardens.

angelica tree

Dendropanax arboreus (L.) Decne. & Planch.

orange mistletoe

Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow

Dendrophthoe glabrescens is a hemiparasitic mistletoe found in eastern and northern Australia that produces orange-and-red tubular flowers.

Long-flower Mistletoe

Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh.

Dendrophthoe vitellina is an Australian hemiparasitic mistletoe that grows on host trees and feeds many butterfly caterpillars.

Jingle Bell Orchid

Dendrophylax porrectus (Rchb.f.) Carlsward & Whitten

Dendrophylax porrectus is an epiphytic orchid native to parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and Florida, often known by the synonym Harrisella porrecta.

orange boxwood

Denhamia disperma (F.Muell.) M.P.Simmons

Denhamia disperma, commonly called orange boxwood, is a shrub or small tree native to eastern Australia.

Creeping Dentella

Dentella repens (L.) J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Dentella repens is a prostrate herb with white funnel-shaped flowers that is assessed as Least Concern.

silvery glade fern

Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato

Deparia acrostichoides, the silvery spleenwort, is a common fern with distinct traits that forms large colonies in moist shaded areas.

Japanese lady fern

Deparia petersenii (Kunze) M.Kato

Deparia petersenii, the Japanese lady fern, is a perennial invasive fern native to Asia and Oceania that has spread to other regions.

Texas mountain laurel

Dermatophyllum secundiflorum (Ortega) Gandhi & Reveal

Dermatophyllum secundiflorum is a toxic evergreen ornamental plant native to arid North American habitats.

tufted hair grass

Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv.

Deschampsia cespitosa is a common grass with textured leaves that grows in grasslands and hosts two skipper butterfly species.

Western Tansymustard

Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton

Descurainia pinnata, common tansymustard, is a variable weedy annual mustard native to North America with known human and ecological uses.

flixweed

Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl

Descurainia sophia is an annual herb with recorded culinary and traditional medicinal uses in Iran and China.

Illinois bundleflower

Desmanthus illinoensis (Michx.) MacMill. ex B.L.Rob. & Fernald

Desmanthus illinoensis, the Illinois bundleflower, is a common US prairie plant whose root bark contains a toxin toxic to some animals.

Prairie Bundleflower

Desmanthus leptolobus Torr. & A.Gray

Desmanthus leptolobus is a legume whose root bark contains DMT, and it grows in North American USDA zones 5-8.

Velvet Bundleflower

Desmanthus velutinus Scheele

Desmanthus velutinus, or velvet bundleflower, is a legume native to parts of the US and Mexico, used for forage and erosion control.