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Satureja
Satureja (savory) is a Lamiaceae genus of aromatic Mediterranean-to-Central-Asian herbs including summer savory (S. hortensis) and winter savory (S. montana), rich in thymol and carvacrol essential oils used culinarily and medicinally.
Savoy cabbage
Savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda, Savoy Cabbage Group), also called Milan or Lombard cabbage, is a cabbage with crinkled leaves and loose heads, grown mainly in Western Europe for autumn and winter harvest.
Saxegothaea
Saxegothaea, Prince Albert's yew (Mañio), a monospecific podocarp conifer genus of Chile and Argentina; sole species Saxegothaea conspicua, a Near Threatened Valdivian rainforest tree with yew-like foliage and multi-scaled seed cones.
Saxifraga
Saxifraga (saxifrages), largest genus of Saxifragaceae, about 375 arctic-alpine herbs of the Northern Hemisphere, Andes, and Ethiopian mountains; North American origin around 74 Ma, lime-secreting hydathodes, and confirmed carnivory in S. candelabrum.
Saxifragaceae
Saxifragaceae, the saxifrage family (Juss., 1789), is a family of perennial herbs in the eudicot order Saxifragales, with about 640 species in roughly 33-40 genera, highest diversity in western North America, and type genus Saxifraga.
Saxifragales
Saxifragales is an order of eudicot flowering plants, sister to rosids in the superrosids, with about 2,400 species in 15 families including Saxifragaceae, Crassulaceae, Paeoniaceae, and Hamamelidaceae; origin dated to ~107 Ma.
Scabiosa
Scabiosa (scabious, pincushion flower) is a Caprifoliaceae genus of about 67-100 species native to Eurasia, Macaronesia, North Africa, and southern Africa, sister to Sixalix, with pincushion flower heads and iridoid-rich chemistry.
Scaevola
Scaevola, also called fan flower or naupaka, is a genus of about 100-130 Goodeniaceae shrubs with half-shaped fan flowers and drupes; Australian in origin, Pacific-radiated, with S. taccada invasive in Florida.
Scallion
Scallion, also called green onion, is a young onion (Allium fistulosum or young A. cepa) harvested before bulbing, with mild flavor; spring onions have small bulbs and stronger taste.
Scenedesmus
Scenedesmus is a genus of freshwater green algae that forms flat colonies of usually four or eight cells, common in nutrient-rich ponds, lakes, and soil.
Schinus
Schinus is a genus of about 40 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in the cashew family, native to South America and best known as the source of pink peppercorns.
Schinus molle
Schinus molle (Peruvian peppertree, pirul, peppercorn tree), Anacardiaceae tree native to Peru to N. Chile and S. Brazil to NE. Argentina; drooping evergreen to 15 m, pink drupes sold as pink pepper, invasive in Australia, Hawaii, South Africa.
Schisandra chinensis
Schisandra chinensis, known as wuweizi, is a climbing medicinal plant of northeastern Asia whose fruit has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years.
Schismus
Schismus (Mediterranean grass) is a genus of five small annual Poaceae grasses native from the Mediterranean to Central Asia, with S. arabicus and S. barbatus invasive winter annuals in western North American deserts.
Schizachyrium
Schizachyrium (little bluestem genus) is a genus of about 60-64 Andropogoneae grasses published by Nees in 1829, type S. condensatum, native to Africa, Asia, and the Americas; shown polyphyletic.
Schizaeaceae
Schizaeaceae (comb ferns) is a family of Schizaeales ferns published by Kaulfuss in 1827, chiefly pantropical with about 150 species; accepted genera vary from two (Schizaea, Actinostachys) to three (adding Microschizaea), defined by a subapical-annulus sporangium opening lengthwise.
Schizolobium parahyba
Schizolobium parahyba (guapuruvu, paricá, Brazilian firetree) is a fast-growing Fabaceae pioneer tree from S. Mexico to S. Tropical America, with very light wood, golden flowers, and invasive behavior outside its native forest.
Schlumbergera
Schlumbergera, the holiday or Christmas cactus genus (formerly Zygocactus), is a group of seven epiphytic cactus species native to southeastern Brazil, named by Lemaire in 1858 for Frédéric Schlumberger; its hybrids bloom in winter after 12–14 hour nights.
Schoenoplectus
Schoenoplectus (Rchb.) Palla, the naked-stemmed bulrushes, is a sedge genus in Cyperaceae tribe Schoenoplecteae, sister to Actinoscirpus, with terete spikelets, spirally arranged glumes, and fungiform embryos; about 27 species in temperate to tropical wetlands, segregated from Scirpus.
Schoenus
Schoenus (bog rushes) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 155 tussock-forming sedges in Cyperaceae, tribe Schoeneae, centered in Australia and South Africa, originating in Western Australia in the Paleocene.
Scirpophaga incertulas
Scirpophaga incertulas, the yellow stem borer, is a monophagous Crambidae moth whose larvae bore into rice stems, causing dead hearts and whiteheads; a major Asian rice pest with 30–40% yield losses, managed via Trichogramma releases, vetiver trap crops, and Bt rice.
Scirpus
Scirpus (bulrushes) is a genus of about 47 perennial sedges in Cyperaceae, native from the temperate Northern Hemisphere to southern South America, once much broader before splitting into Schoenoplectus, Schoenoplectiella, Bolboschoenus, and Trichophorum, and widely planted in constructed wetlands.
Scleranthus
Scleranthus, or knawel, is a genus of about 12 petal-less herbs in Caryophyllaceae, native from Europe to Siberia and Iran and in Australasia, with hard indehiscent fruits and type species S. annuus.
Scleria
Scleria (nutrush, razor grass) is a pantropical genus of about 250-280 sedge species in Cyperaceae, tribe Sclerieae, with unisexual flowers, hard globose nutlets with a hypogynium, and silicified razor-sharp leaf margins.
Sclerocarya birrea
Sclerocarya birrea, or marula, a dioecious Anacardiaceae savanna tree of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, up to 18 m, with vitamin C-rich yellow fruit used for food, beer, Amarula liqueur, medicine, and seed oil.
Scleroderris canker
Scleroderris canker (Brunchorstia dieback), a conifer disease caused by the fungus Gremmeniella abietina; races European, North American, Asian; kills shoots, cankers stems, devastated over 400,000 ha of Swedish pine from 2001.
Scolymus
Scolymus (goldenthistle) is a genus of three spiny Asteraceae herbs native from Macaronesia and Europe to Iran and NE. Tropical Africa; S. hispanicus is the edible Spanish salsify, distinct from Cynara scolymus, the globe artichoke.
Scoparia
Scoparia: two accepted genera share the name, Scoparia L. (Plantaginaceae, 20 tropical American plant species incl. medicinal S. dulcis) and Scoparia Haworth, 1811 (crambid moths, 26 Chinese species); scoparia also a broom-like species epithet.
Scrophularia
Scrophularia (figworts) is a genus of about 250-292 species in Scrophulariaceae, native to temperate Eurasia, Macaronesia, Africa, and North America; S. ningpoensis (Xuanshen) is a major traditional Chinese medicine root rich in iridoids.
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family (Lamiales), once the order's largest family with over 5,000 species, was found polyphyletic in 1995; its genera now span seven families, leaving 59 genera and about 1,880 species.