Other flowering plants

Dipteryx

Dipteryx (cumaru, tonka bean trees; Dipteryx odorata, D. alata) is a Neotropical Fabaceae genus of 12 large canopy tree species, sources of tonka beans with coumarin, dense decking timber, and CITES Appendix II listing since 2022.

Dipteryx odorata

Dipteryx odorata, cumaru or tonka bean tree (Coumarouna odorata), a large Fabaceae tree of northern South America; seeds yield coumarin for perfume and food, timber traded as cumaru; IUCN Data Deficient, genus in CITES Appendix II.

Dodonaea

Dodonaea (hopbush, hopseed bush) is a genus of about 65–72 shrub and tree species in Sapindaceae, mostly Australian, with petal-less flowers and winged capsules; type species Dodonaea viscosa.

Dolichos

Dolichos L. is a conserved legume genus (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae, Phaseolinae) of about 55-60 Old World tropical species, mostly African; distinguished from Macrotyloma by short standard appendages, reticulate pollen and purple flowers; hyacinth bean (D. lablab) now Lablab purpureus.

Doona (organism)

Doona is a genus of 10 resin-bearing dipterocarp tree species endemic to Sri Lanka's wet-zone rainforests, also treated as Shorea sect. Doona; includes the rediscovered Doona ovalifolia.

Doronicum

Doronicum (leopard's bane) is a genus of perennial rhizomatous Asteraceae herbs with yellow daisy-like flower heads, native from NW Africa and Europe to the Himalaya, placed in tribe Doroniceae and used ornamentally and medicinally.

Draba

Draba (whitlow-grasses), largest genus of Brassicaceae in tribe Arabideae, over 370 arctic-alpine species on every continent except Australia and Antarctica; monophyletic but with artificial sectional classifications.

Dracocephalum

Dracocephalum (dragonhead) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 70 aromatic herb species of the temperate Northern Hemisphere; Hyssopus and Lallemantia are embedded within it, and D. moldavica is its most-studied medicinal species.

Dragon's blood

Dragon's blood (Resina Draconis, Xuejie, sangre de drago) is a deep red resin from Croton, Dracaena, Daemonorops, and Pterocarpus species, used as varnish, dye, incense, and traditional medicine, with clinical trials in wound healing, antithrombosis, and diarrhea.

Drimys

Drimys (canelo, winter's bark) is a genus of seven vessel-less evergreen Winteraceae trees and shrubs native from Mexico to southern South America, described by the Forsters in 1776, with Australasian species split off into Tasmannia.

Drosera

Drosera, the sundews, is a genus of 260 accepted carnivorous plant species with sticky flypaper traps, cosmopolitan in distribution, sister to Dionaea and Aldrovanda, richest in Australia and Brazil, and long used medicinally.

Droseraceae

Droseraceae, the sundew family, is a family of carnivorous flowering plants comprising three genera: the sundews (Drosera), the Venus flytrap (Dionaea), and the aquatic waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda).

Drupe

Drupe (stone fruit): a fleshy fruit with a three-layered pericarp, thin exocarp, fleshy mesocarp, and hard lignified endocarp (pit or pyrene) around usually one seed; examples peach, cherry, plum, coconut, olive, almond, coffee.

Dryas

Dryas is a genus of dwarf shrubs in the rose family, native to subarctic and subalpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere and best known for the mountain avens.

Dryas octopetala

Dryas octopetala, mountain avens or eightpetal mountain-avens, is a circumpolar arctic-alpine evergreen subshrub of Rosaceae with usually eight-petaled white flowers; it names the Older and Younger Dryas cold periods and is Iceland's national flower.

Drymaria arenarioides

Drymaria arenarioides (alfombrilla, lightning weed, sandwort drymary), a Caryophyllaceae perennial herb native to Mexico; federal noxious weed, saponins toxic to cattle, sheep, and goats.

Duranta

Duranta (golden dewdrop, skyflower) is a Verbenaceae genus of Neotropical shrubs and small trees, type species Duranta erecta, recognized by axillary spines and yellow four-pyrene drupes; about 29-35 species, ornamental, invasive, and toxic.

Duranta erecta

Duranta erecta (golden dewdrop, pigeon berry, skyflower; synonym Duranta repens) is a thorny Verbenaceae shrub native from Mexico to South America and Florida, grown ornamentally, toxic to people via saponin-rich berries, and invasive in Florida, Australia, China, Taiwan, and Fiji.

Durio

Durio is a genus of about 29 accepted Southeast Asian trees in Malvaceae, native from Indo-China to western Malesia, centering on Borneo; it includes the durian, Durio zibethinus, the only widely cultivated species, plus edible wild relatives and timber trees.

Durio zibethinus

Durio zibethinus (durian) is a Malvaceae tree native to Sumatra and Borneo, the only Durio species grown commercially, known for its sulfury aroma from esters and sulfur volatiles.

Dysphania ambrosioides

Dysphania ambrosioides, known as epazote or Mexican tea, is an aromatic herb native to the Americas, used as a culinary herb in Mexican and Caribbean cooking and in traditional medicine against intestinal parasites.

Ebenaceae

Ebenaceae, the ebony family (synonyms Lissocarpaceae, Diospyraceae), is a pantropical Ericales family of about 750 tree species in Diospyros, Euclea, and Lissocarpa, source of ebony timber and persimmon fruit.

Echeveria

Echeveria DC., also known as Mexican rosettes or Mexican snowballs, is a Crassulaceae succulent genus of about 219 accepted species native from southern Texas to northwestern Argentina, centered in Mexico, with CAM photosynthesis and rosette growth.

Echinacea

Echinacea (purple coneflower) is a North American Asteraceae genus of nine accepted species, including E. purpurea, E. angustifolia, and E. pallida, used medicinally since Indigenous North American practice and marketed for colds, though clinical evidence is weak.