Plants — 23,508 Species

White Tamarind

Elattostachys xylocarpa (A.Cunn. ex F.Muell.) Radlk.

Elattostachys xylocarpa is a small to medium tree with pinnate leaves, red flowers, and yellowish fruiting capsules that ripen from March to June.

Broom reed

Elegia capensis (Burm.f.) Schelpe

Elegia capensis, the horsetail restio, is a grass-like flowering plant native to South African Fynbos that holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Horse Goldreed

Elegia equisetacea (Mast.) Mast.

Elegia equisetacea is a reed-like South African flowering ornamental plant that has won the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Cape Thatching Reed

Elegia tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder

Elegia tectorum (Cape thatching reed) is a South African Restionaceae perennial with historical uses for thatching.

Needle Spikerush

Eleocharis acicularis (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis acicularis, or needle spikerush, is a widespread aquatic spikesedge sold commercially for aquascapes.

Sharp Spike Sedge

Eleocharis acuta R.Br.

Eleocharis acuta R.Br. is a rhizomatous grass-like sedge widely distributed across Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Norfolk Island, with commercial wetland uses.

Canada Spikesedge

Eleocharis geniculata (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis geniculata is a widespread annual wetland spikesedge with common names bent spikerush and Canada spikesedge.

Knotted Spikerush

Eleocharis interstincta (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis interstincta is a rhizomatous herb with 40 - 90 cm tall terete stems, membranous sheaths, 1.5 - 5.5 cm long cylindrical spikelets, and obovoid yellow, ocher, or gray achenes.

Blunt Spikerush

Eleocharis obtusa (Willd.) Schult.

Eleocharis obtusa, blunt spikerush, is an annual spikesedge widespread across Canada and the US in wet areas.

Ovate Spikerush

Eleocharis ovata (Roth) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis ovata (ovate spikerush) is an annual self-supporting sedge that grows up to 1.5 feet tall.

common spikerush

Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis palustris is a variable, mat-forming perennial wetland flowering plant in the sedge family with a broad Northern Hemisphere distribution.

Kaya

Eleocharis sphacelata R.Br.

Eleocharis sphacelata, or tall spikerush, is a native Australian and New Zealand sedge that grows in coastal wet muddy areas.

leafy elephant's-foot

Elephantopus carolinianus Raeusch.

Elephantopus carolinianus is a perennial herb native to the south-central and southeastern United States.

Tall Elephant's-foot

Elephantopus elatus Bertol.

Elephantopus elatus is a perennial herb native to the southeastern United States, found in a variety of well-drained habitats.

elephant's foot

Elephantopus mollis Kunth

Elephantopus mollis is a tropical Asteraceae perennial herb, native to the Americas, naturalized elsewhere, and a noxious weed in some areas.

Prickly-leaved elephant's foot

Elephantopus scaber L.

Elephantopus scaber L. is a tropical flowering aster used widely in traditional medicine that can modulate inflammatory responses.

common elephant's-foot

Elephantopus tomentosus L.

Elephantopus tomentosus L. is a native facultative plant that thrives after spring and winter prescribed burns.

Dwarf Elephantroot

Elephantorrhiza elephantina (Burch.) Skeels

Elephantorrhiza elephantina is a suffrutescent African plant that blooms September to November, pollinated mainly by African honeybees.

Goose Grass

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Eleusine indica, a widespread Poaceae grass, is an invasive weed in some areas with edible but low-yielding seeds.

three-spiked goose grass

Eleusine tristachya (Lam.) Lam.

Tatarian aralia

Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus (Rupr. & Maxim.) S.Y.Hu

Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus is a 2m - tall deciduous shrub with yellow hermaphroditic flowers. It flowers from late April to early June, fruits in September, is found in China, Japan, and parts of South Korea, and is used ornamentally.

copperbush

Elliottia pyroliflora (Bong.) Brim & P.F.Stevens

Elliottia pyroliflora, copperbush, is a North American native perennial Ericaceae shrub found in the Pacific Northwest.

Aunt Lucy

Ellisia nyctelea (L.) L.

Ellisia nyctelea is an annual flowering plant widespread across most of North America, found in open disturbed sites and deciduous forests.

Pinnate Ellisiophyllum

Ellisiophyllum pinnatum (Wall. ex Benth.) Makino

Ellisiophyllum pinnatum is the only species of the monotypic genus Ellisiophyllum in Plantaginaceae, native from the central Himalayas to New Guinea.