Flora of Zimbabwe: Utilities: List of genus vernacular names

The use of English names for genera is a new feature of the site and at present content is somewhat limited.

Click on a letter below to take you to the first genus whose name begins with that letter.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Agrimonies
Aloe
Angel's trumpets (Cultivated genus)
Apples (Cultivated genus)

B
Bananas
Basket grasses
Bedstraws
Beeches (Cultivated genus)
Bog clubmosses
Borages (Cultivated genus)
Bottle-trees (Cultivated genus)
Brambles
Bristle grasses
Bristle grasses
Buckwheats
Buffalo beans
Buttonweeds

C
Candytufts (Cultivated genus)
Carrion-flowers
Catchflies
Cedars (Cultivated genus)
Chestnuts (Cultivated genus)
Clovers
Cockleburs
Comfries (Cultivated genus)
Coneflowers (Cultivated genus)
Coral-vines
Cosmos
Crowfoots
Cypress pines
Cypresses

D
Daisies (Cultivated genus)
Dandelions
Daylilies (Cultivated genus)
Docks
Dodder-laurels
Dodders

E
Elders
Elms
Evening primroses
Everlasting flowers

F
False thorns
False thorns (Cultivated genus)
Fennels
Fescues
Figs
Finger-grasses

f
firmosses or fir clubmosses

F
Flax-lilies
Fleabanes
Fleabanes
Floating hearts
Flossflowers
Fumitories

G
Gallant-soldiers
Geraniums
Gladioluses
Glory bushes (Cultivated genus)
Golden-rain trees (Cultivated genus)
Goosefoots
Grapevines (Cultivated genus)
Ground pines or creeping cedar
Guavas
Gums

H
Heart-seeds
Hollies
Hollyhocks (Cultivated genus)
Honey-locusts
Horsetails

I
Irises (Cultivated genus)

J
Jasmines
Junipers

K
Kauri pines (Cultivated genus)
Knotgrasses
Knotweeds

L
Lady's mantles
Leadworts
Lettuces
Locusts (Cultivated genus)
Lucky-bean trees

M
Maidenhair fern
Mallows
Maples (Cultivated genus)
Marigolds
Melilots
Milk thistle (Cultivated genus)
Mints
Mistletoes
Mock orange (Cultivated genus)
Monkey puzzles (Cultivated genus)
Mulberries

N
Naiads
Nasturtiums
Nettles
Nightshades

O
Oaks
Oats
Oil palms (Cultivated genus)
Onions (Cultivated genus)
Orchid trees
Osage-oranges

P
Pampas-grasses (Cultivated genus)
Passion flowers
Pears (Cultivated genus)
Pennyworts
Periwinkles
Pineapples (Cultivated genus)
Pines
Pinks
Pitahayas or Dragon-fruits (Cultivated genus)
Plane trees (Cultivated genus)
Pomegranates
Pondweeds
Poplars

Q
Quillworts

R
Radishes
Raffia palms
Red-hot pokers
Rhodes grasses
Rock samphires (Cultivated genus)
Rues (Cultivated genus)

S
Safflowers (Cultivated genus)
Saltbush, Orache
Saltworts
Shoelace fern
Slipper flowers
Snapdragons (Cultivated genus)
Spade flowers
Speedwells
Squashes and gourds (Cultivated genus)
Starburs
Stocks (Cultivated genus)
Strawberries (Cultivated genus)
Sumachs (Cultivated genus)
Sundews
Sunflowers
Sweetgums (Cultivated genus)
Swine-cresses

T
Tamarisks (Cultivated genus)
Tapegrasses
Thatching-grasses
Thorn trees
Tickseeds
Toadflaxes
Tobaccos
Travellers-palms (Cultivated genus)
Tree Aloes (Cultivated genus)
Tree daisies
Trumpet trees (Cultivated genus)

V
Valerians
Vetches
Virginia creepers
Virginia stocks (Cultivated genus)
Vlei-lilies

W
Wallflowers (Cultivated genus)
Walnuts (Cultivated genus)
Wandflowers
Water clover or clover fern.
Water-milfoils
Water-plantains
Wax flowers (Cultivated genus)
Wheats
Willowherbs
Willows
Witchweeds

Y
Yams
Yellow-woods

Z
Zinnias

168 names found

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Utilities: List of genus vernacular names.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/utilities/utility-vernac-genus.php, retrieved 3 December 2024

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