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Gardenia
Gardenia jasminoides
An East Asian evergreen shrub with glossy dark leaves and white double flowers whose powerful sweet perfume makes it a classic Southern garden plant.
If you've been searching for plants that start with G, you'll find 6 detailed plants below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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Table of contents
| Gardenia | Gerbera Plant | Ginseng | Gloxinia |
| Goji Plant | Goldenrod |
List of Plants That Start With G
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Gerbera Plant
Gerbera jamesonii
A South African daisy widely grown as a bedding plant and one of the worlds top five cut flowers, available in nearly every color but blue.
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Ginseng
Panax ginseng
A slow-growing East Asian and North American forest herb with branched fleshy roots used for thousands of years in traditional medicine as a tonic.
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Gloxinia
Sinningia speciosa
A Brazilian tuberous houseplant grown for large velvety bell-shaped flowers in deep purple, red, or white, often gifted as a flowering pot plant.
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Goji Plant
Lycium barbarum
A thorny East Asian shrub whose bright red berries, marketed as a superfood, have been used in Chinese medicine for over a thousand years.
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Goldenrod
Solidago canadensis
A North American perennial wildflower with tall plumes of bright yellow late-summer flowers, a critical late nectar source for bees and migrating butterflies.
About plants starting with G
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