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Liana
Liana: a long-stemmed woody climbing plant (also called vine, bejuco, cipo) rooted in soil and using trees for support to reach the canopy; abundant in tropical forests, where it competes with trees, reduces carbon storage, and is increasing in abundance.
Liatris
Liatris (blazing star, gayfeather) is a genus of about 32-42 species of corm-forming perennial herbs in Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae, native to North America and the Bahamas, grown as ornamentals.
Libocedrus
Libocedrus is a genus of five cypress-family conifer species native to New Zealand and New Caledonia, published by Endlicher in 1847, placed in subfamily Callitroideae, and paraphyletic unless Pilgerodendron is included.
Licania
Licania Aubl. is a Neotropical tree genus of Chrysobalanaceae, apetalous flowers, ovary at receptacle base, about 100 species from Mexico to southeastern Brazil after the 2016 split of the former polyphyletic 214-species genus into eight genera.
Lignum vitae
Lignum vitae, the heartwood of Guaiacum officinale and G. sanctum, is an extremely hard, dense, self-lubricating tropical wood historically used for ship stern-tube bearings; both species are CITES Appendix II listed.
Ligularia
Ligularia (leopard plant) is a genus of about 150 perennial Asteraceae herbs native to temperate Eurasia, centered in the Hengduan Mountains, with yellow daisy flowers, medicinal terpenoids, and garden use in moist shade.
Ligusticum
Ligusticum (lovage, licorice-root) is a genus of Apiaceae perennial herbs established by Linnaeus in 1753, type L. scoticum, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere; polyphyletic, with medicinal species such as chuanxiong and osha.
Ligustrum lucidum
Ligustrum lucidum, known as glossy privet, is an evergreen tree in the olive family native to China; its ripe fruits are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Ligustrum vulgare
Ligustrum vulgare (European, common, or wild privet), Oleaceae shrub native from NW Africa and Europe to NW Iran, long grown for hedges; invasive in parts of North America, less damaging than Chinese privet.
Liliaceae
Liliaceae, the lily family (Liliales), is a conserved family of monocot herbs with bulbs, 3+3 tepals, six stamens, and superior ovaries; about 700 species in 15 genera including Lilium and Tulipa, mostly north temperate, split from the old broad Liliaceae by APG molecular classifications.
Liliales
Liliales is an order of flowering plants in the monocots, containing about 1,300 species including true lilies and tulips, with nectaries on the tepals and anthers opening outward.
Lilioid monocots
The lilioid monocots are a group of five orders of flowering plants, including Liliales and Asparagales, holding most showy six-tepaled monocots once placed in the lily family.
Lilium
Lilium, the true lilies, is a genus of about 124 accepted bulbous flowering plants in Liliaceae, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, classified into Comber's seven sections, with East Asia as its diversity center and major horticultural hybrid groups.
Lilium candidum
Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily or white lily, an eastern Mediterranean bulbous lily (Kew POWO), fragrant erect white trumpet flowers, Minoan frescoes c. 1600 BC, Virgin Mary's flower, bulbs used for shingles.
Lilium lancifolium
Lilium lancifolium, the tiger lily (syn. Lilium tigrinum), is a bulbous lily native from the Russian Far East to Japan and Tibet. Sterile triploid garden clone spreading by axillary bulbils; bulbs are official in Chinese Pharmacopoeia as Lilii Bulbus.
Lilium longiflorum (テッポウユリ)
Lilium longiflorum (テッポウユリ), the Easter lily or trumpet lily, is a white trumpet-flowered lily native to the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the Philippines, forced for Easter sales and highly toxic to cats.
Lilium martagon
Lilium martagon, the martagon or Turk's cap lily (Turk's-cap lily), is a Eurasian bulbous lily described by Linnaeus in 1753, with nodding, recurved, spotted pink-purple flowers, native from SW and Central Europe to Mongolia.
Lily of the valley
Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) is a perennial flowering plant in the asparagus family, native to Europe and the Caucasus, grown for its fragrant white spring flowers.
Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima, the wood apple tree, is a spiny citrus-family tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Andaman Islands, grown for its hard-shelled aromatic fruit.
Limonium
Limonium (sea lavender, statice) is a Plumbaginaceae genus of about 600-650 salt-tolerant species, Mediterranean-centered recretohalophytes with salt glands, including cut-flower statice L. sinuatum and many threatened endemics.
Linaceae
Linaceae, the flax family, is a cosmopolitan family of about 9 genera and 280 species in the order Malpighiales, including Linum, the source of linen and linseed oil.
Linaria vulgaris
Linaria vulgaris (yellow toadflax, butter-and-eggs, common toadflax) is a Eurasian perennial plantain with yellow spurred snapdragon-like flowers, invasive in North America via seeds and root buds, noxious in 10 U.S. states.
Lindera
Lindera (spicebush) is a genus of about 100 aromatic trees and shrubs in Lauraceae, native from Asia to Queensland and eastern North America, with dioecious umbellate flowers, 2-celled anthers, and uses in medicine, timber, and horticulture.
Linum
Linum (flax genus), Linaceae, a genus of about 215 accepted species of herbs with showy blue, yellow, pink, red, or white flowers; includes cultivated flax Linum usitatissimum, source of linen and linseed oil.
Liparis
Liparis is a large, cosmopolitan orchid genus (Orchidaceae, Malaxideae) of terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, established 1817, type species L. loeselii; molecular studies show it is polyphyletic.
Lippia
Lippia L. (Verbenaceae, tribe Lantaneae), genus of aromatic herbs and shrubs established by Linnaeus in 1753, native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical and subtropical America; dry two-nutlet fruits, not monophyletic with Lantana, used in traditional medicine and herbal teas.
Lippia alba
Lippia alba (bushy lippia, bushy matgrass, erva-cidreira), Verbenaceae, is an aromatic American shrub used in traditional medicine as a sedative and digestive remedy, with seven essential-oil chemotypes (citral, carvone, linalool) and inclusion in the Brazilian Pharmacopeia.
Liquidambar
Liquidambar, sweetgums, genus of resinous deciduous trees in Altingiaceae with 15 species disjunct across Asia, Turkey, and the Americas; includes American sweetgum L. styraciflua.
Liquidambar styraciflua
Liquidambar styraciflua, the American sweetgum or alligatorwood, is a large deciduous tree of eastern North America with star-shaped five-lobed leaves and spiky ball-shaped fruit that persist through winter.
Liquorice
Liquorice (licorice), Glycyrrhiza glabra, also called gan cao or sweet root: a Fabaceae perennial herb whose glycyrrhizin-rich rhizomes flavor candy, tobacco, and root beer, and whose excess consumption raises blood pressure and lowers potassium.