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Ampelopsis
Ampelopsis (peppervine, porcelain berry) is a genus of tendril-climbing lianas in Vitaceae, published by Michaux in 1803, mostly East Asian with disjunct North American species; Nekemias was split from it in 2014.
Anabasis
Anabasis L. (Anabasearum) is a genus of about 30 succulent, C4 xerophytic shrubs in Amaranthaceae, native from the Mediterranean to Central Asia; source of anabasine from Anabasis aphylla and camel fodder species like A. salsa.
Anacamptis morio
Anacamptis morio, the green-winged orchid (formerly Orchis morio), is a tuberous European orchid native to Europe and the Mediterranean to Iran that offers no nectar, deceives bee pollinators, and is Near Threatened in Europe.
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.
Andreaea
Andreaea (lantern mosses, rock mosses) is the sole genus of Andreaeopsida, 45–100 species of dark cushion mosses on acidic rocks in cool temperate and polar regions, sister to peristomate mosses, capsules opening by four valves without a peristome.
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.
Andropogon
Andropogon (bluestems) is a pantropical grass genus of Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae, with roughly 80-120 species in Africa and the Americas; it includes big bluestem (A. gerardii), dominant tallgrass prairie grass and biofuel crop, and is polyphyletic, prompting taxonomic splitting.
Andropogon gayanus
Andropogon gayanus (gamba grass, andropogon grass), Kunth 1833, a tall tufted C4 Poaceae grass native to Cape Verde and tropical and southern Africa, grown as tropical pasture (4–25 t/ha DM) and a declared invasive weed in northern Australia.
Andropogon gerardi
Andropogon gerardi (big bluestem, turkey-foot) is a tall native warm-season C4 prairie grass of North and Central America, once 70-90% of tallgrass prairie, used for forage, restoration, and erosion control.
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.
Ania
Ania Lindl. is a genus of Asian terrestrial orchids (Orchidaceae, Collabieae), long synonymized with Tainia and re-established in 2014; about six accepted species with spurred lips, from India to New Guinea.
Anigozanthos
Anigozanthos, kangaroo paws, is a genus of bird-pollinated, rhizomatous herbs in Haemodoraceae endemic to south-western Western Australia, with hairy tubular flowers; A. manglesii is Western Australia's floral emblem and the genus is a major cut-flower crop.
Anigozanthos humilis
Anigozanthos humilis, the catspaw or common cat's paw, is a rhizomatous perennial kangaroo paw (Haemodoraceae) endemic to southwest Western Australia, 0.1–1 m tall with yellow to orange-red flowers, three subspecies, and subsp. chrysanthus listed Vulnerable.
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.