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Asparagus Fern
Asparagus setaceus
A soft, feathery South African plant that resembles a fern but is actually a relative of garden asparagus, popular as a houseplant and floral filler.
This page lists plants that end with N. 14 plants are detailed below. Each entry below is a doorway into a full profile — not just a name on a list.
List of Plants That End With N
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Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
A graceful arching fern from tropical Americas, immensely popular as a hanging houseplant since the Victorian era for its lush sword-shaped fronds.
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Chinese Evergreen
Aglaonema commutatum
A tough Southeast Asian houseplant grown for its silver- or red-mottled leaves, widely chosen for offices for its tolerance of low light and dry air.
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Croton
Codiaeum variegatum
A flamboyant tropical Asian shrub whose leaves splash with red, orange, yellow, and green, grown outdoors in the tropics and as a vivid houseplant elsewhere.
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Cyclamen
Cyclamen persicum
A Mediterranean tuberous plant whose nodding pink, white, or red flowers with swept-back petals appear in winter above heart-shaped marbled leaves.
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Heartleaf Philodendron
Philodendron hederaceum
A trailing tropical American aroid with small glossy heart-shaped leaves, one of the easiest and longest-popular houseplants in cultivation.
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Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum capillus-veneris
A delicate fern with airy fan-shaped leaflets on slim black wiry stems, found near waterfalls worldwide and famously challenging as a houseplant.
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Ostrich Fern
Matteuccia struthiopteris
A large North American and European fern named for its vase-shaped clumps of plume-like sterile fronds, the source of edible spring fiddleheads.
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Philodendron
Philodendron
A vast genus of tropical American aroids ranging from compact heart-leaf trailers to enormous tree-climbing forms, beloved as forgiving and varied houseplants.
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Rabbits Foot Fern
Davallia fejeensis
A Fijian fern with finely cut bright green fronds rising from hairy creeping rhizomes that look like soft rabbit feet creeping over the pot rim.
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Staghorn Fern
Platycerium bifurcatum
An Australian epiphytic fern with antler-shaped fronds that grows wedged to tree branches and is mounted on boards as a popular living wall plant.
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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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Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
A Eurasian aromatic herb with slim anise-scented leaves, considered one of the four fines herbes of French cuisine and essential to classic sauces.
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Tree Fern
Dicksonia antarctica
Ancient ferns whose trunks rise several metres above the ground, carrying a crown of enormous fronds, surviving relics of the Carboniferous landscape.
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