Pictures of Angiosperms

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Trumpet Creeper
The trumpet creeper, characterized by small clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers, is a woody-stemmed root climber that prefers sunny, fertile, moist, well-drained soils. It reaches 7 to 12 m (22 to 40 ft) in size.

Trumpet Vine
Characterized by small clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the summer, the climbing vine known as the trumpet vine or trumpet creeper is often grown for its ornamental value. The trumpet vine prefers sunny weather and fertile, moist, well-drained soils. The vine spreads rapidly and reaches 7 to 12 m (22 to 40 ft) in size under proper conditions. On wooden buildings, the unchecked vine can cause damage by loosening shingles.








Varieties of Tea
The three kinds of beverage tea, Camellia sinensis, differ in the way they are processed. The leaves of black tea, made by every tea-growing nation, are partially dried and their juices squeezed from them before they are fermented and dried. The leaves that make green tea are steamed, crushed, and dried. Oolong tea leaves are partly fermented. Tea leaves are sorted into grades on the basis of size only, the smallest being used in tea bags.



Virginia Spring Beauty
Virginia spring beauty is one of the first wildflowers to bloom in the spring. Its beautiful, delicate flowers are popular in rock gardens.

Wallflower
The wallflower, a member of the mustard family, is cultivated for its attractive flowers.

White Clover
White clover, characterized by its small size and three-lobed leaves, is an important pasture plant. Often cultivated to enrich the soil, white clover grows well in sunny locations with well-drained soils.

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Swamp Lily
The swamp lily, a member of the amaryllis family, is cultivated for its attractive flowers.

Sweet Alyssum
The sweet alyssum is an attractive perennial commonly cultivated in rock gardens. The plant grows 15 to 30 cm (6 to 12 in) tall and produces small, white, fragrant flowers that bloom through the spring and summer.

Sweet Pea
The sweet pea belongs to an order of plants known as legumes. The legumes are an economically important group of plants that have root nodules containing a bacterium that helps return nitrogen to the soil. Because of this characteristic, legumes such as the sweet pea are used to enrich nitrogen-poor soils. Other legumes include beans, peanuts, soybeans, and alfalfa.





Tall Buttercup
Although buttercups such as Ranunculus acris, pictured here, abound in pastures, grazing cows avoid them; ingesting the shiny, double blossom irritates the mucous membranes of the digestive tract. However, dried buttercups are harmless inclusions in hay.

Tank Bromeliad
Many bromeliads are epiphytic—that is, they grow upon other plants and collect nutrients and moisture from the air. Epiphytes have no true roots, but use rootlike structures to grasp onto a growing surface, such as a tree limb or trunk. Many epiphytic bromeliads such as the tank bromeliad are prized for their attractive appearance.

Tea Plants
Tea plants are distributed across tropical and subtropical regions, but most species occur in eastern Asia and South America. Members of the species provide timber and leaves, which are dried for use in brewing the tea beverage. The Chinese have brewed tea for thousands of years, beginning perhaps in the 28th century bc. Tea came to Europe in the 17th century ad, transported to the continent by Dutch traders.








Teak Tree
The teak, native to India and the Malay archipelago, has been widely used in shipbuilding and furniture making because of its resistance to insects and weather.

Tickseed
Plants in the Coreopsis genus are commonly known as tickseed. Tickseed species represent some of the hardiest, most easily grown garden materials. The long blooming period, which lasts from early summer until frost, makes tickseeds attractive garden decorations.

Transplanting
Rather than planting seeds directly in the garden, gardeners in cooler climates may start their seeds indoors and transplant the young plants outside when the danger of frost has passed. Using tranplants, which are also available for purchase in nurseries, enables gardeners to maximize the growing season. While it may be months before seedlings are ready to flower, transplanted plants often flower sooner.

Trout Lily
The trout lily, a spring flowering perennial growing to 30 cm (12 in), is cultivated for its yellow pendant flowers and mottled foliage. This plant grows best in fertile, well-drained soils with a high humus content.

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Saguaro Cactus
The saguaro cactus, common in Arizona’s desert areas, branches only after it has reached a height of about 5 m (about 15 ft). The saguaro grows very slowly, approximately 2.5 cm (approximately 1 in) per year, and can reach heights of up to about 15 m (about 50 ft). Featured on a United States postage stamp in 1962, the plant’s waxy white blossom is Arizona’s state flower.

Sausage Tree
The sausage tree, native to Africa, is named for its unusual sausagelike fruits. The woody capsules can be up to 60 cm (24 in) long, 10 cm (4 in) wide, and weigh up to 5 kg (12 lb). The fruit takes a year to ripen and is inedible, but is often used in folk remedies for skin conditions.






Scarlet Runner Bean
Beans, like this scarlet runner bean, are cultivated throughout the world. Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria, present in small nodules on the roots of beans and other legumes, help to return nitrogen to the soil, where the plant can then utilize it directly. In exchange, the bacteria in the root nodules use organic compounds supplied by the plant as an energy source.






Silk Oak
A native of eastern Australia, the silk oak has been introduced to tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. The dark green or bronze leaves are covered with white, silky hairs on the underside. The yellow-orange flowers attract bees and provide nectar for honey production in some regions. The silk oak is also used as a shade tree, a street tree, and even a potted ornamental.


Silver Birch
The silver birch tree, one of a number of birches native to parts of South America and to temperate and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere, is a deciduous tree growing to a height of 30 m (70 ft). This birch has silver-white bark that slowly turns black at the base of the trunk in older plants. Its leaves turn a bright yellow in autumn.

Skullcap
Resembling a knight’s helmet with the visor up, the distinctive skullcap flowers are prized in rock gardens. These wildflowers are distributed in woods, grasslands, and meadows throughout the world and spread rapidly via underground stems called rhizomes.



Snapdragon
This garden variety of the snapdragon plant flowers in Skylands State Park, New Jersey. When the flower’s petals, said to resemble the mouth of a dragon, are pulled apart and released, they close with an audible snap—hence the plant’s name. Horticulturalists have developed many strains of snapdragons with varying colors and fragrance for ornamental use.





Soapwort
A fast-spreading, hardy plant with distinctive flowers, soapwort contains a compound known as saponin that can lather up in water like soap. Although saponin soaps were replaced in the 1800s by fat-based soaps, the mild solution from soapwort is still used by dyers who work with delicate fabrics and as an ingredient in herbal shampoos.



Spanish Moss
An epiphyte (air plant), Spanish moss does not root in soil, but instead attaches itself to trees. The plant hangs from the limbs and trunks of oak trees in South America and the southeastern United States. As with other epiphytes, Spanish moss utilizes a unique structural design to absorb water directly from the air and to secure nutrients from drifting dust particles.





Stinging Nettle
Easily recognized by its prominent serrated leaves, the stinging nettle is a herbaceous plant related to hops, marijuana, mulberries, and elms. The minute, fluid-filled hairs on the leaf surface and stem can cause a stinging or burning sensation on contact with the skin.






Strawberry Plant
Among the most popular of the small perennial herbs native to the temperate regions of the world is the strawberry. These plants are commonly grown as ground cover and for their fruit. All of the cultivated varieties, developed from four naturally occurring species, reproduce from seeds as well as by sending out runners.






Sunflower
Sunflowers have blossoms composed of yellow rays of petals fanning around disks with smaller yellow, brown, or purple petals. The plants’ characteristic arch toward the Sun occurs because of the accumulation of an auxin, a plant-growth regulator, in the shady portion of the stem. The auxin causes the shaded region of the stem to grow at an increased rate, bending the flower to face the Sun.

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Pineapple Plant
Although originally discovered and domesticated in South America, the pineapple is now cultivated in many tropical regions throughout the world. The pineapple plant is a member of a group of plants called bromeliads, or air plants. Their modified leaves and stems catch and store water, which the plant can then use as a resource. Some animals such as tree frogs can use this stored water as a place in which to lay their eggs and rear their young.




Pink and White Lady’s Slipper
Yellowish-green or pink flowers of the genus Cypripedium bear the sac-like lip that gives the Lady’s slipper, a type of orchid, its name.










Pitcher Plant
Pitcher plants, found throughout the tropical and temperate regions of the world, are insectivorous plants, using specially modified leaves to capture and consume insects. Pitcher plants usually grow in poor soils and rely on the captured insects for added nutrition.


Potato Plant
Native to the Andes of Peru, the potato plant is now cultivated throughout the temperate regions of the world. It is grown for human consumption and for its starch, which is used in the manufacture of alcohol and adhesives.







Prickly Pear Cactus
Although native to the tropical and subtropical regions of the southwestern United States, Baja California, and the Sonoran Desert region of Mexico, the prickly pear cactus has been introduced throughout dry, arid regions of the world. The flowers of the prickly pear produce edible fruit suitable for human consumption.






Pumpkin
The term pumpkin can be loosely interchanged with “squash,” referring to plants and fruits of the genus Cucurbita. The plant grows in vines that spread low across the ground, with large leaves and yellow-orange flowers. The fruit is popularly harvested for consumption.



Pussy Willow
The pussy willow belongs to a small family of woody flowering plants and certain trees including aspens and cottonwoods. The fruit of the pussy willow is contained in a capsule with numerous seeds, each of which has a cottonlike thread that acts as a parachute, helping the wind to spread the seeds.








Rhododendron Flower
Species of rhododendron grow worldwide although they appear infrequently in Australia. Rhododendron species vary in size, flower color, and preferred habitat. Most varieties have evergreen leaves and occur in habitats with acid soils.






Rhubarb Plant
The rhubarb plant, originally native to Asia, is now cultivated in many parts of the world. This plant grows best in deep, fertile, well-drained soils. The edible leafstalks, commonly used in the preparation of preserves and pies, contain a combination of naturally occurring acids including ascorbic acid, or vitamin C.







Sage
The sage, a member of the mint family producing colorful, tubular, aromatic flowers, is often cultivated as an ornamental plant. Oils extracted from the leaves are used in flavorings for meat, poultry, and sausage. Sage leaves can also be used to brew a flavorful tea.

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Mimosa
Feathery, fernlike leaves of the evergreen shrub Mimosa pudica curl inward when touched. Tiny, deep-pink flowers appear in the summer.








Mock Orange
The common mock orange, also called syringa, is a deciduous shrub covered with clusters of small, fragrant, cream-colored flowers. Syringa is the state flower of Idaho.









Musk Thistle
The musk thistle has decorative composite flowers but its spiny leaves and branches create a weedlike appearance. This species of thistle bears purple flowers and is common in fields in the northeastern United States.







Nail Polish Flowers
The nail polish plant, so-named because of the bright color of its flowers, belongs to the four-o’clock family. It grows best in sunny locations in fertile, well-drained soils.







Nightshade
All parts of the belladonna, or nightshade, Atropa belladonna, are poisonous. The drug atropine, used to dilate the pupils of the eyes, is one of several narcotics extracted from its leaves and roots.







Opium Poppy
The opium poppy’s green, unripe seed capsule, revealed when the flower petals drop, contains a milky sap that is the source of opium. To collect the sap, slits are made along the circumference of the seed capsules, enabling the milky sap to ooze out and dry. It is then scraped from the capsules, pressed into cakes, and dried to form the rubbery, yellow-brown opium. Natural derivatives of opium include morphine and codeine, used extensively in medicine as sedatives and pain killers. Heroin is a synthetic derivative of morphine. Morphine and codeine are habit forming. Heroin, which is especiallly addictive, is illegal in the United States.

Oxalis
Oxalis belongs to a group of subtropical and tropical tuberous or fibrous-rooted perennial or semievergreen plants commonly cultivated for their colorful flowers. Although some species are well suited for cultivation in rock gardens, others are considered invasive. In some cases the tubers and leaves are edible.






Passionflower
The passionflower, a close relative of the violets, is a woody-stemmed climbing plant that grows to a height of 10 m (30 ft). Passionflowers are cultivated for their unique flowers and edible fruits.








Peanut Plant
Although native to South America, the peanut plant is now cultivated in those parts of the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia having long, warm, growing seasons. A member of the pea (legume) family, the peanut is rich in protein, B vitamins, and oil. The plants themselves can be used as livestock feed.






Pear Tree
The pear tree is a member of the rose family. It is cultivated for its fruit throughout the cool, humid, temperate regions of the world. Pear juice is used in the production of a number of commercial fruit drinks.







Peony
Peonies have elaborate flowers, with five to ten petals and numerous stamens (male flower parts) and carpels (female flower parts). The plants are native to Europe, Asia, and the northwestern United States. Certain varieties are indigenous to wooded areas, while other varieties have been cultivated for decorative purposes in gardens.






Petunia
The petunia, a member of the nightshade family, is commonly cultivated as a garden plant. Petunias exist in a wide number of varieties, with flowers of different colors, shadings, and shapes.









Pimpernel
The pimpernel, cultivated for its flowers, grows best in sunny locations in moist, fertile soils. The blooms of certain species close at the approach of rainfall and open in bright sunshine. These species carry the nicknames shepherd’s barometer and poor man’s weatherglass.






Pineapple Mint
The pineapple mint is a perennial plant cultivated both as an ornamental and for its aromatic leaves, which are used as a culinary herb. It grows to a height of 45 cm (18in) and can become invasive in gardens.

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