Plants that Start with L

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Plants that Start with L

Wherever you turn around you can see beautiful trees, flowers and plants that decorate your city, parks or gardens. There are millions of species that we can’t even imagine, and their names start with the letter “L”.

Herbs that start with L

Labiatae: a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary.

– The labitae has very aromatic leaves.

Lactuca: an herb with milky juice: lettuce; prickly lettuce.

– You can buy Lactuca as a powder. It is made from the whole plant.

Lad’s love: aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe.

– The leaves of the lad’s love are used in sachets to repel moths and fleas.

Lemon mint: mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange. An annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico.

– The lemon mint belongs to the mint family but has a refreshing lemon flavor. It has many medicinal properties.

Leonotis: small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa.

– The Leonotis is also known as Lion’s Tail. It is used with medical purposes.

Flowers that start with L

Laccopetalum: one species: giant buttercup.

– The laccopetalum flower looks like a big cabbage with a yellow center.

Lady Tulip: Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base.

– The church was decorated with lady tulips. It looked gorgeous!

Lemon Lily: a daylily with yellow flowers.

– While we were hiking, we found a field covered with lemon lilies.

Lilium: type genus of Liliaceae.

– Arnold sent his mother an orange lilium bouquet for her 60th birthday.

Trees that start with L

Lacebark: small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.

– Originally  the lacebark tree was native to China, now you can find it in the United States.

Liberian coffee: small tree of West Africa.

– There are many plantations of Liberian coffee tree in America.

Lignum vitae: small evergreen tree of Caribbean and southern Central America to northern South America; a source of lignum vitae wood, hardest of commercial timbers, and a medicinal

– The Wood of the lignum vitae is one of the hardest and durable Woods in the world.

Liriodendron: tulip trees.

– The Liriodendron grows very fast, and it is resistant to pollution.

Jungle and swamps that start with L

Lemna: Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.

– Lemna is pretty tiny leaves that resemble clovers. It usually covers the water surface.

Lesser spearwort: semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand.

-The lesser spearwort grows flowers and fruits typical of buttercups.