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Anacardiaceae
Anacardiaceae, the cashew or sumac family (R.Br., 1818), is a Sapindales family of about 80 genera and 800-870 species of resinous trees and shrubs, including cashew, mango, pistachio, sumac, and poison ivy (urushiol).
Anacardium
Anacardium (cashew genus) is a Neotropical genus of 13 accepted species in Anacardiaceae, native from Mexico to tropical South America; its type species Anacardium occidentale is the cashew, the only economically important member.
Anadenanthera
Anadenanthera (yopo, cebil, angico) is a tropical American legume tree genus with four accepted species; A. peregrina seeds yield the classic hallucinogenic snuff, A. colubrina supplies timber and tannins.
Anadenanthera peregrina
Anadenanthera peregrina (yopo, cohoba, niopo, paricá) is a Fabaceae tree native from the Caribbean to southern tropical South America whose crushed seeds yield the classic hallucinogenic snuff; IUCN Least Concern, genus of two species with A. colubrina.
Anchusa
Anchusa (bugloss, alkanet) is a Boraginaceae herb genus published by Linnaeus in 1753, with about 35 species from the Mediterranean to Mongolia, Pakistan, and South Africa, used in traditional medicine and as a red dye source.
Andira
Andira Lam. (angelins) is a conserved genus of about 30 Fabaceae tree species, subfamily Faboideae, tribe Dalbergieae, native from Mexico to tropical America and West Africa, with drupaceous one-seeded legumes and a four-toothed calyx.
Andira inermis
Andira inermis (cabbage bark, angelin, almendro) is a nitrogen-fixing Fabaceae tree native from Mexico to tropical America and West Africa to Uganda, used in traditional medicine as a vermifuge and purgative, with toxic seeds and Least Concern status.
Andrographis
Andrographis (king of bitters; A. paniculata, kalmegh, chuan xin lian) is a genus of 27 accepted Acanthaceae herbs native to the Indian Subcontinent to Myanmar, source of andrographolide.
Andrographis paniculata
Andrographis paniculata, known as King of Bitters or kalmegh, is an annual acanthus herb native to the Indian subcontinent and used for centuries in traditional Asian medicine.
Anemone
Anemone (windflower) is a Ranunculaceae genus of perennial herbs with petaloid sepals, no petals, and achenes; type species A. coronaria; species counts range 60-170 depending on circumscription; toxic, medicinal, and widely cultivated.
Anemonoides nemorosa
Anemonoides nemorosa (syn. Anemone nemorosa), the wood anemone, a Ranunculaceae rhizomatous geophyte native to Europe to W. Caucasus; early-spring white woodland flower, ancient-woodland indicator, spreads about six feet per century.
Anethum
Anethum (dill genus), Apiaceae herbs native Sahara to India; type species Anethum graveolens, the culinary herb dill; genus size disputed, 2 to 8 accepted taxa.
Angel Oak
Angel Oak: famous Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Angel Oak Park, Johns Island, Charleston, SC; 65 ft tall, 25.5 ft trunk circumference, 17,000 sq ft canopy; age estimates 300-500 years; city-owned since 1991, free admission, ~400,000 visitors yearly.
Angelica
Angelica (genus, Apiaceae), temperate Northern Hemisphere aromatic herbs; 106 accepted species incl. A. archangelica (gin, Chartreuse), A. sinensis; furanocoumarin phototoxicity; synonyms Archangelica, Coelopleurum.
Angelica archangelica
Angelica archangelica (garden angelica) is an aromatic Apiaceae perennial native from Greenland to western Siberia, grown for candied stems, liqueur flavouring (Bénédictine, Chartreuse, gin), and traditional medicine; furocoumarins cause phototoxicity.
Angelica sinensis
Angelica sinensis (danggui, dong quai, 当归) is an Apiaceae perennial herb of central China whose dried root is a major traditional Chinese medicine for blood nourishing and menstruation, with over 290 identified constituents including Z-ligustilide and ferulic acid.
Anise
Anise (Pimpinella anisum, aniseed) is an annual Apiaceae herb native from SE Türkiye to central Israel, grown for aniseed fruits and anethole-rich essential oil used in food, drink, and medicine since ancient Egypt.
Annona
Annona L. (custard apple genus), family Annonaceae, about 120-170 species of tropical American and African trees and shrubs; source of cherimoya, soursop, sugar apple, and atemoya fruits, beetle-pollinated and often hand-pollinated.
Annona squamosa
Annona squamosa, the sugar apple or sweetsop (custard apple), a small Annonaceae tree native to Mexico to Colombia, grown for its knobby sweet fruit; beetle-pollinated, hand-pollinated commercially, seeds toxic, India the largest producer.
Annonaceae
Annonaceae, commonly known as the custard apple family, is a pantropical family of flowering plants with roughly 108 genera and 2,400 to 2,500 species, including fruit crops like soursop.
Anoda
Anoda is a genus of about 24 accepted Malvaceae (mallow) species of annual herbs native to tropical and subtropical America, centered in Mexico; its best-known species, Anoda cristata, is a crop weed and Mexican food plant.
Anredera
Anredera (Madeira-vines), genus of climbing vines in Basellaceae, Caryophyllales, published 1789; 10-12 species native to tropical and subtropical Americas; includes invasive ornamental Anredera cordifolia.
Anredera cordifolia
Anredera cordifolia, Madeira vine or mignonette vine (binahong), a Basellaceae twining vine native to South America, grown as ornamental and vegetable, invasive in Australia and New Zealand via aerial tubers.
Antennaria
Antennaria (pussytoes) is a genus of about 45 accepted species of dioecious perennial herbs in Asteraceae, tribe Gnaphalieae, native from subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere to Mexico and southern South America, known for apomixis and polyploid complexes.
Anthemis
Anthemis is a genus of about 175-210 Asteraceae herbs, mainly circum-Mediterranean, known as chamomiles; Anthemis nobilis is now Chamaemelum nobile, Roman chamomile, and Anthemis cotula is a toxic chamomile look-alike.
Anthriscus
Anthriscus (chervils, beakchervils) is a conserved Apiaceae genus from Persoon (1805), native from temperate Eurasia to tropical African mountains; about 80 named species but roughly 9-14 accepted, including garden chervil (A. cerefolium) and cow parsley (A. sylvestris).
Anthriscus sylvestris
Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, wild chervil, or keck, is a biennial or perennial herb in the carrot family native to temperate Eurasia, bearing white flower umbels in late spring.
Anthurium
Anthurium (flamingo flower, laceleaf, tailflower) is the largest genus of Araceae, 800 to 1,300+ species native to tropical America, grown for cut flowers and potted plants, chiefly Anthurium andraeanum hybrids.
Anthyllis
Anthyllis (kidney vetches) is a genus of about 23 legume species (Fabaceae, tribe Loteae) native from Macaronesia and Europe to Iran and NE tropical Africa, with all 10 stamens united and non-lomentaceous fruits; A. vulneraria is the most widespread species.
Antiaris toxicaria
Antiaris toxicaria, the upas tree, is a large tropical fig-family tree of the Old World tropics whose poisonous latex is a principal ingredient of dart and arrow poisons.