List of Plant Species - Taxonomic Order (Ordered by Families)

Fuerteventura Sea-daisyCommon Iceplant Canary Islands Spurge Burchard's Carrionflower

Using the lists

As a quick short cut for users, this page contains a list of all the plant species that are included in this identification guide. If you are wanting to check a particular species, simply locate it on the list here; clicking on the name will take you straight to it. This list is available in three formats: Alphabetical by English Name, Alphabetical by Scientific Name or in Taxonomic Order. To access the list that is easiest for you to use, simply choose from the left hand column.

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Pine Family - Pinaceae
  • Canary Island Pine

  • Araucarians - Araucariaceae
  • Norfolk Island Pine

  • Asphodel Family - Asphodelaceae
  • Hollow-stemmed Asphodel
  • Slender Asphodel
  • Branched Asphodel
  • Aloe Vera
  • Spider Aloe

  • Asparagus Family - Asparagaceae
  • Pale-spined Asparagus
  • Dragon Tree
  • Western Sea Squill
  • Centuryplant

  • Palms - Arecaceae
  • Canary Islands Date Palm

  • Rushes - Juncaceae
  • Sharp Rush

  • Sedge Family - Cyperaceae
  • Smooth Flat-sedge

  • Grasses - Poaceae
  • Mediterranean Needle-grass
  • Smilo-grass
  • Slender Oat
  • Lesser Canary-grass
  • Perennial Rye-grass
  • Golden Dog's-tail
  • Adherent Bristle-grass
  • Buffel-grass
  • Common Thatching-grass
  • Giant Reed
  • Common Reed
  • Bermuda-grass
  • Indian Wire-grass

  • Poppy Family - Papaveraceae
  • West Mediterranean Poppy
  • White Ramping-fumitory

  • Stonecrop Family - Crassulaceae
  • Kalanchoe x houghtonii
  • North African Navelwort

  • Caltrops Family - Zygophyllaceae
  • Canary Islands Bean-caper
  • Cretan Fagonia

  • Pea Family - Fabaceae
  • Carob
  • Spiny Tara
  • Winter Cassia
  • Flamboyant Tree
  • Mexican Palo Verde
  • River Tamarind
  • Sweet Acacia
  • Western Coastal Wattle
  • Willow Acacia
  • Blue-leaved Wattle
  • Pitch Trefoil
  • Lotus glinoides
  • Lanzarote Bird's-foot-trefoil
  • Caterpillar-plant
  • Purple Vetch
  • Crimson Pea
  • Large Yellow Restharrow
  • Catalina's Restharrow
  • Star Fenugreek
  • Shore Medick
  • Tattered Medick
  • Star Milk-vetch
  • Solander's Milk-vetch
  • Mariout Milk-vetch

  • Rose Family - Rosaceae
  • Almond

  • Mulberries & Figs - Moraceae
  • Common Fig
  • Weeping Fig

  • Nettles - Urticaceae
  • Narrow-leaved Forsskaolea

  • She-oaks - Casuarinaceae
  • Coastal She-oak

  • Gourd Family - Cucurbitaceae
  • Bitter Cucumber

  • Wood-sorrel Family - Oxalidaceae
  • Procumbent Yellow-sorrel
  • Upright Yellow-sorrel
  • Cape Sorrel

  • Passionflowers - Passifloraceae
  • Edible Passionflower

  • Spurge Family - Euphorbiaceae
  • Castor-oil Plant
  • False Caper
  • Balsam Spurge
  • Jandía Spurge
  • Canary Islands Spurge

  • Flaxes - Linaceae
  • Upright Yellow Flax

  • Crane's-bills - Geraniaceae
  • Erodium neuradifolium
  • Mallow-leaved Stork's-bill
  • Three-lobed Stork's-bill
  • Rose-scented Pelargonium
  • Ivy-leaved Pelargonium
  • Hybrid Zonal Pelargonium

  • Purple Loosestrife Family - Lythraceae
  • Pomegranate

  • Myrtle Family - Myrtaceae
  • River Red Gum

  • Sumac Family - Anacardiaceae
  • Peruvian Pepper Tree
  • Brazilian Pepper Tree

  • Mallow Family - Malvaceae
  • Common Sida
  • Least Mallow

  • Rock-rose Family - Cistaceae
  • Canary Islands Rock-rose

  • Mignonette Family - Resedaceae
  • Lanzarote Mignonette

  • Cabbage Family - Brassicaceae
  • French Rocket
  • Sea Rocket
  • Cress Rocket
  • Canary Rocket
  • Hoary Mustard
  • Bolle's Stock
  • Lobularia libyca
  • Horn-fruit

  • Sea-heaths - Frankeniaceae
  • Annual Sea-heath
  • Capitate Sea-heath

  • Tamarisk Family - Tamaricaceae
  • Canary Islands Tamarisk

  • Leadwort Family - Plumbaginaceae
  • Bourgeau's Sea-lavender
  • Winged Sea-lavender
  • Sinuate Statice
  • Cape Leadwort

  • Docks & Smartweeds - Polygonaceae
  • Canary Islands Sorrel
  • Bladder Dock
  • Spiny Emex

  • Chickweeds & Pinks - Caryophyllaceae
  • Polycarpaea nivea
  • Four-leaved Allseed
  • Fimbriate Spurrey
  • Spergularia flaccida

  • Amaranths & Goosefoots - Amaranthaceae
  • Patellifolia procumbens
  • Patellifolia patellaris
  • Nettle-leaved Goosefoot
  • Shrubby Orache
  • Glaucous Orache
  • Berry Saltbush
  • Atriplex semilunaris
  • Atriplex suberecta
  • Bassia tomentosa
  • Shrubby Sea-blite
  • Vermiculate Sea-blite
  • Short-leaved Saltwort
  • Divaricate Saltwort
  • Vermiculate Saltwort
  • Slender Amaranth

  • Iceplants - Aizoaceae
  • Spanish Aizoon
  • Canary Islands Iceplant
  • Slender-leaved Iceplant
  • Common Iceplant
  • Heart-leaved Iceplant
  • Purple Dewplant
  • Hispid Dewplant
  • Coppery Dewplant
  • Shoreline Purslane

  • Pokeweeds - Phytolaccaceae
  • Ombú

  • Four O'clocks - Nyctaginaceae
  • Bougainvillea
  • St Helena Hogweed
  • Marvel-of-Peru

  • Purslanes - Portulacaceae
  • Common Purslane

  • Cactus Family - Cactaceae
  • Dillen's Prickly-pear
  • Common Prickly-pear

  • Bedstraw Family - Rubiaceae
  • Macaronesian Madder

  • Dogbane Family - Apocynaceae
  • Yellow Oleander
  • Common Oleander
  • Apple of Sodom
  • Burchard's Carrionflower

  • Borage Family - Boraginaceae
  • Mairetis microsperma
  • Bonnet's Bugloss
  • Purple Viper's-bugloss
  • Seaside Heliotrope
  • Many-branched Heliotrope

  • Bindweed Family - Convolvulaceae
  • Coastal Morning-glory
  • Small Blue Bindweed
  • Medusa's Head
  • Alfalfa Dodder
  • Red Dodder

  • Nightshade Family - Solanaceae
  • Black Nightshade
  • Common Tomato
  • Cock's-eggs
  • Common Thorn-apple
  • Recurved Thorn-apple
  • White Henbane
  • Canary Boxthorn
  • Sclerophylax spinescens
  • Tree Tobacco

  • Ashes, Privets & Allies - Oleaceae
  • Common Olive

  • Plantains & Allies - Plantaginaceae
  • Nanorrhinum heterophyllum
  • Ivy-leaved Toadflax
  • Buck's-horn Plantain
  • Amplexicaule Plantain
  • Hare's-foot Plantain
  • Blonde Plantain

  • Mints, Dead-nettles & Allies - Lamiaceae
  • Egyptian Sage
  • Wild Clary
  • False Ground-pine

  • Broomrapes & Allies - Orobanchaceae
  • Yellow Desert Broomrape
  • Violet Broomrape

  • Daisy Family - Asteraceae
  • Bolle's Desert-knapweed
  • Tubular Desert-knapweed
  • Cardoon
  • Slender Thistle
  • Painted Reichardia
  • Shrubby Sow-thistle
  • Slender Sow-thistle
  • Smooth Sow-thistle
  • Canary Islands Hawk's-beard
  • Prickly Goldenfleece
  • Scaly Hawkbit
  • Pinnatifid Andryala
  • Kleinia anteuphorbium
  • Canary Islands Candleplant
  • Coastal Groundsel
  • Broad-leaved Groundsel
  • Senecio massaicus
  • Field Marigold
  • Three-winged Marigold
  • Broad-leaved Cudweed
  • Ifloga spicata
  • Purplish Phagnalon
  • Argentine Fleabane
  • Annual Buttonweed
  • Canary Islands Marguerite
  • Crown Daisy
  • Woody Fleabane
  • Burchard's Fleabane
  • Fuerteventura Sea-daisy
  • Button Pallenis

  • Umbellifers - Apiaceae
  • Astydamia
  • Dwarf Hare's-ear