Plants — 23,508 Species

Giant False Sensitive Plant

Mimosa diplotricha C.Wright

Mimosa diplotricha is a touch-sensitive legume native to tropical Central and South America with thorny stems and pink fluffy flowers.

Giant Sensitive Plant

Mimosa pigra L.

Mimosa pigra L. is a prickly sensitive leguminous shrub native to tropical America, widely invasive across the tropics.

Sensitive Plant

Mimosa pudica L.

Mimosa pudica L. is a prickly flowering plant native to tropical America, often cultivated, and invasive in many warm regions.

Mimosa quadrivalvis L.

Mimosa quadrivalvis L.

Mimosa quadrivalvis L. is a prickly sprawling herb with sensitive leaflets and pink flower clusters native to parts of North and Central America.

sunshine mimosa

Mimosa strigillosa Torr. & A.Gray

Mimosa strigillosa (sunshine mimosa) is a drought-tolerant nitrogen-fixing perennial ground cover native to the Gulf Coast U.S., often used as a turf replacement.

Texas Mimosa

Mimosa texana (A.Gray) Small

Mimosa texana is an uncommon deciduous shrub native to northeastern Mexico and parts of Texas.

sharpwing monkeyflower

Mimulus alatus Aiton

Mimulus alatus Aiton, sharp wing monkey-flower, is a North American native perennial wetland plant pollinated primarily by bumblebees.

Allegheny monkeyflower

Mimulus ringens L.

Mimulus ringens, or Allegheny/square-stemmed monkeyflower, is a rhizomatous perennial native to central/eastern North America, introduced to the Pacific Northwest.

Mamajen

Mimusops elengi L.

Mimusops elengi L., or bullet wood, is an evergreen tree native to South/Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, with edible fruit and valuable timber.

Transvaal Red Milkwood

Mimusops zeyheri Sond.

Mimusops zeyheri Sond. is a plant with leathery haired leaves, fragrant white flowers, edible sweet yellow fruits, and hard reddish-brown wood.

red four o'clock

Mirabilis coccinea (Torr.) Benth. & Hook.fil.

Scarlet four o'clock (Mirabilis coccinea) is a night-blooming spring wildflower native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Marvel of Peru

Mirabilis jalapa L.

Mirabilis jalapa (four o'clock flower) is a colorful herbaceous plant native to the Americas, grown ornamentally and used for food coloring and herbal medicine.

Wishbone Bush

Mirabilis laevis (Benth.) Curran

Mirabilis laevis (desert wishbone-bush) is a recently redefined four o'clock family flowering plant found in the US Southwest and northwest Mexico.

Narrowleaf Four o'Clock

Mirabilis linearis (Pursh) Heimerl

Mirabilis linearis, or narrowleaf four o'clock, is a plant with documented traditional uses by the Zuni people.

Sweet Four o'Clock

Mirabilis longiflora L.

Mirabilis longiflora L. is a tender herbaceous perennial native to scrubby canyons and riverbanks of the southwestern US and northern Mexico.

Colorado Four o'Clock

Mirabilis multiflora (Torr.) A.Gray

Mirabilis multiflora is a perennial herb pollinated by hawkmoths, with traditional medicinal uses among the Zuni people.

Wild Four o'Clock

Mirabilis nyctaginea (Michx.) Mac Mill.

Mirabilis nyctaginea, wild four o'clock, is a North American four o'clock plant that has traditional medicinal uses by the Skiri Pawnee.

Heathy Mirbelia

Mirbelia rubiifolia (Andrews) G.Don

Mirbelia rubiifolia is a spreading Australian shrub that bears pink to purple flowers and is occasionally grown in subtropical horticulture.

Japanese silver grass

Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Franch.

Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus) is an erect grass native to temperate Northeast Asia.

Chinese silver grass

Miscanthus sinensis Andersson

Miscanthus sinensis is an ornamental perennial grass cultivated for bioenergy use, invasive in parts of North America.

false mistletoe

Misodendrum punctulatum Sol. ex G.Forst.

Misodendrum punctulatum is a small, wind-dispersed hemiparasitic mistletoe native to southern Chile and Argentina, infecting southern beech trees.

Pale Weasel's-snout

Misopates calycinum (Lange) Rothm.

Weasel's-snout

Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.

Misopates orontium (weasel's snout) is a herbaceous annual Plantaginaceae native to Europe, naturalized as a weed elsewhere.

partridgeberry

Mitchella repens L.

Mitchella repens, or partridge berry, is an evergreen creeping vine native to eastern North America, cultivated ornamentally with traditional Indigenous medicinal uses.