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Duckweed
Lemna minor
A tiny floating aquatic plant that forms green blankets across still water, one of the worlds smallest and fastest-growing flowering plants.
Below are plants that contain the letter W anywhere in the name. Each of the 15 plants below opens to a full profile.
List of Plants That Contain W
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Edelweiss
Leontopodium nivale
A small alpine herb of the Eurasian high mountains with white woolly star-shaped bracts, a national symbol of Austria and Switzerland.
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Haworthia
Haworthia fasciata
A small South African succulent forming tight rosettes of pointed leaves, popular with collectors for the diversity of leaf shapes and translucent windows.
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Indian Mallow
Abutilon indicum
A pantropical herb with soft heart-shaped leaves and small yellow flowers, used for fiber, fodder, and traditional Ayurvedic medicine across South Asia.
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Jewel Orchid
Ludisia discolor
A Southeast Asian terrestrial orchid grown not for its flowers but for velvety leaves shimmering with metallic golden veins like embroidered fabric.
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Korean Boxwood
Buxus sinica var. insularis
A small slow-growing Korean evergreen shrub with neat oval green leaves, prized as a hardy hedge and topiary plant in temperate gardens.
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Liverwort
Marchantia polymorpha
A worldwide group of ancient nonvascular plants forming flat green ribbons or tiny leafy mats, among the oldest land plants in the fossil record.
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New Zealand Flax
Phormium tenax
A New Zealand evergreen with stiff fan-shaped clumps of long strappy leaves, dramatic in modern landscape design and historically harvested for strong fiber.
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Sweet Flag
Acorus calamus
A wetland herb with fragrant strap-shaped leaves that smell faintly of cinnamon when crushed, used in medicine and ritual across Eurasia and North America.
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Sword Fern
Polystichum munitum
A large evergreen Pacific Northwest fern with stiff dark green sword-shaped fronds, common in coastal coniferous forests and a popular shade landscape plant.
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Wandering Jew
Tradescantia zebrina
A traditional common name for several trailing tradescantias from Latin America, prized as easy houseplants with vivid purple or silver striped leaves.
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Water Hyacinth
Eichhornia crassipes
A South American floating aquatic plant with bulbous leaf bases and spikes of lavender flowers, beautiful but among the worlds most damaging invasive weeds.
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Wax Plant
Hoya carnosa
A common name for hoyas, tropical Asian vines whose waxy succulent leaves and fragrant porcelain-like flower clusters have made them beloved houseplants.
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Witch Hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
A North American deciduous shrub famous for ribbon-like fragrant winter flowers and its bark extract used in skincare and folk medicine.
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Yellow Archangel
Lamiastrum galeobdolon
A European deadnettle with silver-marked leaves and butter-yellow spring flowers, grown for shady groundcover but invasive in Pacific Northwest forests.
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