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

Wavy Stock Allium circinnatum Greek Spiny Spurge Sawfly Orchid

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Lesser Clubmosses - Selaginellaceae
  • Mediterranean Clubmoss

    • Horsetails - Equisetaceae
  • Great Horsetail

    • Ribbon Ferns - Pteridaceae
  • Jersey Fern
  • Velvet Fern
  • Resurrection Fern
  • Common Maidenhair Fern

    • Bracken Family - Dennstaedtiaceae
  • Common Bracken

    • Spleenworts - Aspleniaceae
  • Maidenhair Spleenwort
  • Black Spleenwort
  • Rustyback Fern

    • Joint-pines - Ephedraceae
  • Leafless Joint-pine

    • Pine Family - Pinaceae
  • Greek Fir
  • Aleppo Pine
  • Stone Pine

    • Araucarians - Araucariaceae
  • Norfolk Island Pine

    • Cypress Family - Cupressaceae
  • Italian Cypress
  • Prickly Juniper
  • Large-fruited Juniper
  • Phoenician Juniper

    • Birthwort Family - Aristolochiaceae
  • Evergreen Birthwort
  • Smearwort
  • Elongate Birthwort

    • Laurel Family - Lauraceae
  • Bay Laurel

    • Arum Family - Araceae
  • Altar Lily
  • Italian Lords-and-ladies
  • Clubbed Biarum
  • Friar's-cowl

    • Water-plantain Family - Alismataceae
  • Common Water-plantain

    • Neptune-grasses - Posidoniaceae
  • Common Neptune-grass

    • Sea-grasses - Cymodoceaceae
  • Mediterranean Sea-grass

    • Yam Family - Dioscoreaceae
  • Black Bryony

    • Green-briers - Smilacaceae
  • Common Smilax

    • Lily Family - Liliaceae
  • Greek Star-of-Bethlehem
  • Blunt-flowered Star-of-Bethlehem
  • Goulimy's Tulip
  • Wavy-leaved Tulip

    • Orchid Family - Orchidaceae
  • Pyramidal Orchid
  • Pink Butterfly Orchid
  • Bergon's Tongue Orchid
  • Eastern Long-lipped Tongue Orchid
  • Common Tongue Orchid
  • Four-spotted Orchid
  • Naked Man Orchid
  • Milky Orchid
  • Toothed Orchid
  • Giant Orchid
  • Rainbow Bee Orchid
  • Yellow Bee Orchid
  • Mirror Orchid
  • Sawfly Orchid
  • Bumblebee Orchid
  • Common Woodcock Orchid
  • Horned Woodcock Orchid
  • Eastern Woodcock Orchid
  • Reinhold's Bee Orchid
  • Eyed Bee Orchid
  • Horseshoe Bee Orchid
  • Mammose Spider Orchid
  • Spruner's Spider Orchid

    • Iris Family - Iridaceae
  • Purple Sand Crocus
  • Field Gladiolus
  • Snake's-head Iris
  • Algerian Iris
  • Bearded Iris
  • White Iris
  • Barbary Nut

    • Asphodel Family - Asphodelaceae
  • Hollow-stemmed Asphodel
  • Branched Asphodel
  • Yellow Asphodel

    • Amaryllis Family - Amaryllidaceae
  • Allium circinnatum
  • Neapolitan Garlic
  • Hairy Garlic
  • Three-leaved Garlic
  • Wild Leek
  • Sea Daffodil

    • Asparagus Family - Asparagaceae
  • Common Butcher's-broom
  • Divergent Star-of-Bethlehem
  • Mediterranean Sea Squill
  • Greek Squill
  • Bellevalia dubia
  • Dark Grape-hyacinth
  • Tassel Hyacinth
  • Sharp-leaved Asparagus
  • Spiny Asparagus
  • Giant Yucca
  • Centuryplant

    • Palms - Arecaceae
  • California Fan Palm
  • Canary Islands Date Palm

    • Bulrushes & Bur-reeds - Typhaceae
  • Branched Bur-reed

    • Rushes - Juncaceae
  • Sea Rush
  • Sharp Rush

    • Sedge Family - Cyperaceae
  • Sea Club-rush
  • Black Bog-rush
  • Pendulous Sedge

    • Grasses - Poaceae
  • Smilo-grass
  • Slender Oat
  • Wild Oat
  • Mediterranean Hair-grass
  • Hare's-tail Grass
  • Lesser Canary-grass
  • Sweet Vernal-grass
  • Greater Quaking-grass
  • Lesser Quaking-grass
  • Annual Meadow-grass
  • Bulbous Meadow-grass
  • Black-grass
  • Elegant Hair-grass
  • Common Cock's-foot
  • Golden Dog's-tail
  • Rough Dog's-tail
  • Curved Hard-grass
  • Sea Fern-grass
  • Rigid Fern-grass
  • Great Brome
  • Barren Brome
  • Compact Brome
  • Wall Barley
  • Aegilops biuncialis
  • False Barley
  • Ravenna-grass
  • Andropogon distachyos
  • Common Thatching-grass
  • Giant Reed
  • Common Reed
  • Beach Dropseed
  • Bermuda-grass

    • Poppy Family - Papaveraceae
  • Common Poppy
  • Mediterranean Poppy
  • Yellow Horned Poppy
  • Beardless Hypecoum
  • Judean Fumitory
  • White Ramping-fumitory
  • Common Fumitory
  • Fine-leaved Fumitory

    • Buttercup Family - Ranunculaceae
  • Oriental Meadow-rue
  • Balkan Anemone
  • Peacock Anemone
  • Creeping Buttercup
  • Marginate Buttercup
  • Rough-fruited Buttercup
  • Slender Buttercup
  • Mill's Buttercup

    • Plane Family - Platanaceae
  • Oriental Plane

    • Saxifrage Family - Saxifragaceae
  • Ivy-leaved Saxifrage
  • Saxifraga rotundifolia ssp. chrysospleniifolia
  • Saxifraga carpetana
  • Rue-leaved Saxifrage

    • Stonecrop Family - Crassulaceae
  • Mossy Stonecrop
  • Green Navelwort
  • Common Navelwort
  • Horizontal Navelwort
  • Laconia Stonecrop
  • Coastal Stonecrop

    • Vines - Vitaceae
  • Common Grape-vine

    • Pea Family - Fabaceae
  • Judas-tree
  • Carob
  • Honey Locust
  • Mexican Palo Verde
  • Blue-leaved Wattle
  • Japanese Pagoda Tree
  • Bean Trefoil
  • Shrubby Milk-vetch
  • Hairy Spiny-broom
  • Chamaecytisus spinescens
  • Genista acanthoclada
  • Spanish Broom
  • Narrow-leaved Lupin
  • Pitch Trefoil
  • Anthyllis hermanniae
  • Common Kidney Vetch
  • Disc Vetch
  • Canary Clover
  • Greater Badassi
  • Common Bird's-foot-trefoil
  • Large-fruited Bird's-foot-trefoil
  • Grey Bird's-foot-trefoil
  • Southern Bird's-foot-trefoil
  • Asparagus-pea
  • Bladder Vetch
  • Small Crown Vetch
  • Scorpion Senna
  • Lesser Horseshoe Vetch
  • Caterpillar-plant
  • Black Locust
  • Downy Vetch
  • Hairy-fruited Vetch
  • Mani Hairy Vetch
  • Cretan Vetch
  • Large Yellow Vetch
  • Common Vetch
  • Black-eyed Vetch
  • Yellow Vetch
  • Hairy Yellow Vetch
  • Bithynian Vetch
  • Brown Vetchling
  • Red Vetchling
  • Annual Pea
  • Crimson Pea
  • Yellow Vetchling
  • Culinary Pea
  • Bird's-foot Restharrow
  • Small Restharrow
  • Downy Restharrow
  • Italian Melilot
  • Sicilian Melilot
  • Greek Fenugreek
  • Balansa's Fenugreek
  • Trigonella rotundifolia
  • Rugose Medick
  • Sea Medick
  • Strong-spined Medick
  • Rigid Medick
  • Shore Medick
  • Spotted Medick
  • Black Medick
  • Tree Medick
  • Button Medick
  • Toothed Medick
  • Medicago disciformis
  • Bur Medick
  • White Clover
  • Greater Strawberry Clover
  • Reversed Clover
  • Orange Trefoil
  • Hop Trefoil
  • Rough Clover
  • Starry Clover
  • Cherler's Clover
  • Subterranean Clover
  • Cockscomb Sainfoin
  • Equal-toothed Sainfoin
  • Biserrula
  • Hooked Milk-vetch
  • Montpellier Milk-vetch
  • Corky Milk-vetch

    • Rose Family - Rosaceae
  • Almond
  • Webb's Almond
  • Apricot
  • Blackthorn
  • Almond-leaved Pear
  • Common Pear
  • Loquat
  • Salad Burnet
  • Spiny Burnet

    • Buckthorns - Rhamnaceae
  • Mediterranean Buckthorn

    • Elm Family - Ulmaceae
  • Small-leaved Elm

    • Hemp Family - Cannabaceae
  • Southern Nettle Tree

    • Mulberries & Figs - Moraceae
  • White Mulberry
  • Common Fig

    • Nettle Family - Urticaceae
  • Membranous Nettle
  • Roman Nettle
  • Common Pellitory
  • Pellitory-of-the-wall

    • Oak Family - Fagaceae
  • Kermes Oak
  • Holm Oak
  • Valonia Oak
  • Downy Oak


    • Walnut Family - Juglandaceae
  • White Walnut

    • Cucumber Family - Cucurbitaceae
  • Squirting Cucumber
  • Black-fruited Bryony
  • White Bryony

    • Wood-sorrels - Oxalidaceae
  • Procumbent Yellow Sorrel
  • Cape Sorrel

    • St John's-wort Family - Hypericaceae
  • Crowberry-leaved St John's-wort

    • Violets - Violaceae
  • Sweet Violet
  • Common Field Pansy

    • Willow Family - Salicaceae
  • Grey Poplar
  • Afghan Poplar

    • Spurge Family - Euphorbiaceae
  • Annual Mercury
  • Tree Spurge
  • Greek Spiny Spurge
  • Sun Spurge
  • Narrow-leaved Glaucous Spurge
  • Dwarf Spurge
  • Petty Spurge
  • Sea Spurge
  • Mediterranean Spurge

    • Flax Family - Linaceae
  • Pale Flax
  • Downy Flax

    • Stone-breaker Family - Phyllanthaceae
  • Andrachne telephioides

    • Crane's-bills - Geraniaceae
  • Round-leaved Crane's-bill
  • Dove's-foot Crane's-bill
  • Calabrian Crane's-bill
  • Cut-leaved Crane's-bill
  • Shining Crane's-bill
  • Little Robin
  • Three-lobed Stork's-bill
  • Mallow-leaved Stork's-bill
  • Long-beaked Stork's-bill
  • Common Stork's-bill
  • Musk Stork's-bill

    • Purple Loosestrife Family - Lythraceae
  • Pomegranate

    • Myrtle Family - Myrtaceae
  • River Red Gum
  • Southern Blue Gum
  • Common Myrtle

    • Sumac Family - Anacardiaceae
  • Terebinth
  • Lentisc

    • Soapberry Family - Sapindaceae
  • Green Maple

    • Rue Family - Rutaceae
  • Cultivated Orange
  • Cultivated Lemon

    • Mahogany Family - Meliaceae
  • Indian Bead-tree

    • Mallow Family - Malvaceae
  • Kurrajong Bottle Tree
  • Egyptian Mallow
  • Common Mallow
  • Smaller Tree Mallow
  • Tree Mallow

    • Daphne Family - Thymelaeaceae
  • Thymelaea tartonraira

    • Rock-rose Family - Cistaceae
  • Willow-leaved Rock-rose
  • Cretan Rock-rose
  • Small-flowered Rock-rose
  • Sage-leaved Rock-rose
  • Arabian Fumana

    • Mignonette Family - Resedaceae
  • White Mignonette

    • Caper Family - Capparaceae
  • Common Caper

    • Cabbage Family - Brassicaceae
  • Burnt Candytuft
  • Southern Warty Cabbage
  • Hoary Stock
  • Sea Stock
  • Three-horned Stock
  • Spring Rock-cress
  • Common Aubretia
  • Common Whitlowgrass
  • Common Disc Cress
  • Tiny Alison
  • Strigose Alyssum
  • Golden Alison
  • Greek Bittercress
  • Hairy Bittercress
  • Hoary Cress
  • Corinthian Wallflower
  • Greek Treacle-mustard
  • Wavy Stock
  • Thale Cress
  • Common Shepherd's-purse
  • Common Buckler-mustard
  • Annual Honesty
  • Dwarf Stock
  • Southern Shepherd's-cress
  • Perfoliate Penny-cress
  • Greek Penny-cress
  • White Ball-mustard
  • Woad
  • Eastern Rocket
  • Hedge Mustard
  • Spanish Mustard
  • Sea Rocket
  • Abyssinian Kale
  • White Mustard
  • Charlock
  • Common Rocket
  • Hoary Mustard
  • Bastard Cabbage

    • Sandalwood Family - Santalaceae
  • Common Osyris
  • Field Bastard-toadflax
  • Common Mistletoe

    • Sea-heaths - Frankeniaceae
  • Hairy Sea-heath

    • Tamarisk Family - Tamaricaceae
  • Hampe's Tamarisk

    • Leadwort Family - Plumbaginaceae
  • Twiggy Sea-lavender

    • Docks & Smartweeds - Polygonaceae
  • Horned Dock
  • Spiny Emex

    • Chickweeds & Pinks - Caryophyllaceae
  • Parnassus Rupturewort
  • Four-leaved Allseed
  • Capitate Nailwort
  • Sand Spurrey
  • Procumbent Pearlwort
  • Mediterranean Sandwort
  • Thyme-leaved Sandwort
  • Sticky Chickweed
  • Greek Upright-chickweed
  • Illyrian Mouse-ear
  • Sticky Mouse-ear
  • Hairy Pink
  • Petrorhagia glumacea
  • Bladder Campion
  • Entire-petalled Catchfly
  • Stonecrop Catchfly
  • Cretan Catchfly
  • Behen Catchfly
  • Nocturnal Catchfly
  • Small-flowered Catchfly
  • Mediterranean Catchfly

    • Amaranths & Goosefoots - Amaranthaceae
  • Common Beet
  • Spear-leaved Orache
  • Common Sea-purslane
  • Glaucous Glasswort
  • Perennial Glasswort
  • Shrubby Glasswort
  • Prickly Saltwort

    • Iceplants - Aizoaceae
  • Heart-leaved Iceplant
  • Sally-my-handsome
  • Hottentot-fig

    • Cactus Family - Cactaceae
  • Common Prickly-pear

    • Primrose Family - Primulaceae
  • Common Sowbread
  • Peloponnese Spring Sowbread
  • Scarlet Pimpernel

    • Heath Family - Ericaceae
  • Tree Heath
  • Mediterranean Strawberry Tree
  • Eastern Strawberry Tree

    • Bedstraw Family - Rubiaceae
  • Field Madder
  • Heldreich's Bedstraw
  • Common Cleavers
  • Bristly Crosswort
  • Dog-cabbage

    • Gentian Family - Gentianaceae
  • Lesser Centaury

    • Dogbane Family - Apocynaceae
  • Common Oleander
  • Herbaceous Periwinkle
  • Greater Periwinkle

    • Borage Family - Boraginaceae
  • Greater Honeywort
  • Violet Honeywort
  • Yellow Gromwell
  • Dyer's Alkanet
  • Pale Viper's-bugloss
  • Purple Viper's-bugloss
  • Small-flowered Viper's-bugloss
  • Coastal Viper's-bugloss
  • Shrubby Golden Drop
  • Intermediate Alkanet
  • Large Blue Alkanet
  • Variegated Alkanet
  • Bulbous Comfrey
  • Cretan Comfrey
  • Common Borage
  • Early Forget-me-not
  • Cynoglossum columnae
  • Blue Hound's-tongue

    • Bindweed Family - Convolvulaceae
  • Five-lobed Bindweed
  • Small Blue Bindweed
  • Mallow-leaved Bindweed
  • Common Dodder

    • Nightshade Family - Solanaceae
  • Silvery-leaved Nightshade
  • Withania
  • White Henbane

    • Ashes, Privets & Allies - Oleaceae
  • Golden Jasmine
  • Manna Ash
  • Common Olive
  • Broad-leaved Mock Privet

    • Plantains & Allies - Plantaginaceae
  • Common Snapdragon
  • Weasel's-snout
  • Jersey Toadflax
  • Hairy Ivy-leaved Toadflax
  • Buck's-horn Plantain
  • Thick-leaved Plantain
  • Hare's-foot Plantain
  • White Plantain
  • Bellard's Plantain
  • Branched Plantain
  • Glandular Plantain
  • Glaucous Speedwell
  • Wall Speedwell
  • Ivy-leaved Speedwell
  • Pale Speedwell
  • Shrubby Globularia

    • Figwort Family - Scrophulariaceae
  • Verbascum macrurum
  • Undulate Mullein
  • Sinuate Mullein
  • Samnitic Mullein
  • Nettle-leaved Figwort
  • Various-leaved Figwort
  • French Figwort
  • Ngaio

    • Mints, Dead-nettles & Allies - Lamiaceae
  • Chaste-tree
  • French Lavender
  • Shrubby Sage
  • Wild Clary
  • Annual Clary
  • Conehead Thyme
  • Woolly Micromint
  • Greek Micromint
  • Greek Oregano
  • Wall Germander
  • Eastern Felty Germander
  • Ground-pine
  • Stachys canescens
  • Pink Peloponnese Woundwort
  • Spreitzenhofer's Woundwort
  • Hairy Woundwort
  • Small-spined Woundwort
  • Prasium
  • Roman Ironwort
  • Jerusalem Sage
  • Greek Horehound
  • Musk Dead-nettle
  • Bifid Dead-nettle
  • Henbit Dead-nettle

    • Broomrapes & Allies - Orobanchaceae
  • Mutel's Broomrape
  • Violet Broomrape
  • Thistle Broomrape
  • Downy Broomrape
  • Common Broomrape
  • Slender Broomrape
  • Yellow Bartsia
  • Southern Bartsia

    • Bellflower Family - Campanulaceae
  • Branched Bellflower
  • Spoon-leaved Bellflower
  • Campanula andrewsii ssp. hirsutula
  • Campanula topaliana
  • Kamari's Bellflower
  • Rockcress-leaved Bellflower

    • Daisy Family - Asteraceae
  • Spiny Globe-thistle
  • Cage Thistle
  • Flat-topped Carline Thistle
  • Southern False Saw-wort
  • Centaurea raphanina ssp. mixta
  • Centaurea seridis ssp. sonchifolia
  • White Artichoke
  • Lamyropsis cynaroides
  • Shrubby Feather-thistle
  • Cudweed Feather-thistle
  • Milk Thistle
  • Picnomon
  • Southern Slender Thistle
  • White-spotted Thistle
  • Purple Milk-thistle
  • Crocus-leaved Viper’s-grass
  • Slender Salsify
  • Purple Salsify
  • Annual Hyoseris
  • Common Reichardia
  • Prickly Sow-thistle
  • Smooth Sow-thistle
  • Star Hawkbit
  • Pink Hawk's-beard
  • Crepis dioscoridis
  • Common Skeletonweed
  • Prickly Goldenfleece
  • Scaly Hawkbit
  • Tuberous Hawkbit
  • Mediterranean Cat's-ear
  • Downy Leopard's-bane
  • Creeping Ragwort
  • Eastern Groundsel
  • Silver Ragwort
  • Field Marigold
  • Pygmy Cudweed
  • Narrow-leaved Cudweed
  • Scentless Curry-plant
  • Eastern Phagnalon
  • Annual Daisy
  • Common Daisy
  • Southern Daisy
  • Argentine Fleabane
  • Pyramidal Fleabane
  • Scented Mayweed
  • Cottonweed
  • Woolly Chamomile
  • Chios Chamomile
  • Corn Marigold
  • Crown Daisy
  • Woody Fleabane
  • Mullein-leaved Fleabane
  • Golden-samphire

    • Honeysuckle Family - Caprifoliaceae
  • Entire-leaved Scabious
  • Lomelosia brachiata
  • Red Valerian
  • Italian Valerian
  • Disc-fruited Cornsalad
  • Spiny-fruited Cornsalad

    • Pittosporums - Pittosporaceae
  • Japanese Cheesewood

    • Aralia Family - Araliaceae
  • Common Ivy

    • Umbellifers - Apiaceae
  • Sea-holly
  • Field Eryngo
  • Common Alexanders
  • Common Shepherd's-needle
  • Knotted Hedge-parsley
  • Giant Fennel
  • Flat-fruited Orlaya
  • Common Carrot
  • Rock Samphire
  • Hellenocarum multiflorum
  • Scaligeria napiformis
  • Scaligeria moreana
  • Golden Hogweed
  • Balkan Hartwort
  • Mediterranean Hartwort
  • Common Fennel
  • Hispid Heal-all