Plants by botanic name
Below is a list of plant names beginning with the letter 'l', listed by scientific/botanical (Latin) name. Click a letter of the alphabet to see a list of plants with botanic / latin names beginning with that letter. Alternatively click here to see the plants listed alphabetically by common name.
Botanic name | Common name(s) |
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Laburnum x watereri 'Vossii' | Golden Rain, Voss's laburnum |
Lactuca sativa | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'All The Year Round' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Arctic King' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Bijou' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Continuity' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Dynamite' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Lakeland' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Lollo Rossa' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Marbello' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Pascal' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Salad Bowl' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Trocadero Improved' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa 'Webb's Wonderful' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa var. foliosa 'Rekord' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa var. longifolia 'Little Gem' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa var. longifolia 'Lobjoits Green' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa var. longifolia 'Paris White' | Lettuce |
Lactuca sativa var. longifolia 'Winter Density' | Lettuce |
Lagarosiphon major | Curly waterweed |
Lagurus ovatus | Hare's-tail grass |
Lamium | Dead nettle |
Lamium album | White nettle, White dead-nettle |
Lamium galeobdolon | Yellow archangel |
Lamium maculatum 'Pink Pewter' | Dead nettle |
Lamium maculatum 'Purple Dragon' | Dead nettle |
Lamium maculatum GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY ('Dellam'PBR) | Spotted deadnettle |
Lamium orvala | Dead nettle |
Lamprocapnos spectabilis | Bleeding heart, Lady in the bath, Dicentra |
Larix decidua | Larch |
Larix kaempferi | Japanese larch |
Lathyrus 'Adam Hastings' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Appeal' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Charlie's Angels' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Lord Anson's Pea' | Everlasting sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Mumsie' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Platinum Sensation' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Sir Jimmy Shand' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Spencer Mix' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus 'Sugar 'n' Spice' | Hanging basket sweet pea |
Lathyrus odoratus | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus odoratus 'Champagne Bubbles' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus odoratus 'Cupani' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus odoratus 'Erewhon' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus odoratus 'Matucana' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus odoratus 'Promise' | Sweet pea |
Lathyrus palustris | Marsh pea |
Lathyrus vernus | Spring pea, Spring bitter vetch, Sweet pea |
Laurus | Laurel |
Laurus nobilis | Bay, Bay tree, Sweet bay, Bay laurel |
Lavandula | Lavender |
Lavandula 'Anouk' | French lavender |
Lavandula 'Ballerina' | French lavender, Lavender |
Lavandula 'Fathead' | French lavender |
Lavandula 'Hidcote Blue' | Lavender |
Lavandula 'Little Lady' | English lavender |
Lavandula 'Papillion' | French lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia | English lavender, Old English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Alba' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Dwarf Munstead' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Folgate' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Imperial Gem' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' | English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Nana Alba' | Dwarf white lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Rosea' | Pink lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula angustifolia 'Royal Purple' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula dentata | Fringed lavender (green form) |
Lavandula dentata var. candicans | Fringed lavender (silver form) |
Lavandula dentate | Fringed lavender, French lavender |
Lavandula dentate 'Highdown Prince' | Fringed lavender |
Lavandula dentate 'Silver Queen' | Fringed lavender |
Lavandula lanata | Woolly lavender, Lavender |
Lavandula lanata 'Richard Gray' | Woolly lavender, Lavender |
Lavandula latifolia | Portuguese lavender, Spike lavender |
Lavandula pinnata | Fernleaf lavender, Egyptian lavender |
Lavandula stoechas | Spanish lavender, French lavender |
Lavandula stoechas 'Alba' | French lavender |
Lavandula stoechas 'Helmsdale' PBR | Lavender |
Lavandula stoechas 'Kew Red' | French lavender |
Lavandula stoechas subsp. pedunculata | French lavender, Papillon or butterfly lavender |
Lavandula viridis | Green lavender |
Lavandula x chaytoriae 'Richard Gray' | Woolley lavender |
Lavandula x intermedia | Dutch lavender |
Lavandula x intermedia 'Grappenhall' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula x intermedia 'Grosso' | Lavender |
Lavandula x intermedia 'Seal' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavandula x intermedia 'Twickel Purple' | Lavender, English lavender |
Lavatera thuringiaca 'Barnsley' | Lavatera |
Leccinum versipelle | Orange birch bolete |
Leersia oryzoides | Rice cutgrass |
Lemna | Duckweed |
Lemna gibba | Fat duckweed |
Lemna minor | Common duckweed |
Lemna minuta | Least duckweed |
Lemna triscula | Ivy-leaved duckweed |
Leonurus cardiaca | Motherwort |
Lepidium sativum 'Triple Curled' | Cress |
Leptospermum | Manuka, Tea-tree, New Zealand tea-tree |
Leucanthemella serotina | Giant daisy, High daisy |
Leucanthemum vulgare | Ox-eye daisy, Oxeye daisy |
Leucanthemum x superbum 'Aglaia' | Shasta daisy |
Leucanthemum x superbum 'Gold rush' | Shasta daisy |
Leucanthemum x superbum ('Goldfinch'PBR) | Shasta Daisy |
Leucanthemum ‘Banana Cream’ | Shasta Daisy |
Leucojum aestivum | Summer snowflake, Loddon lily |
Leucojum vernum | Spring snowflake, Snowflake |
Levisticum officinale | Lovage |
Leycesteria formosa | Himalayan honeysuckle, Pheasent berry |
Leymus arenarius | Lyme grass |
Liatris spicata | Gay feathers |
Liatris spicata 'Kobold' | Gay feathers |
Libertia elegans | Lesser Chilean iris |
Libertia formosa | Chilean iris |
Ligusticopsis wallichiana | Wallich milk parsley |
Ligustrum ovalifolium | Oval leaf privet, Privet |
Ligustrum vulgare | Common pivet, Wild privet |
Lilium | Lily |
Lilium 'Amazing' | Lily |
Lilium 'Colour Parade' | Lily |
Lilium 'Miss Lucy' | Lily |
Lilium candidum | Lily, Madonna lily |
Lilium martagon | Martagon lily |
Lilium pyrenaicum | Pyrenean lily |
Linaria | Toadflax |
Linaria Cymbalaria | Ivy-leafed toadflax, Pennywort |
Linaria purpurea | Purple toadflax |
Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went' | Purple toadflax |
Linaria vulgaris | Common toadflax |
Linum perenne | Flax |
Linum perenne subsp. alpinum | Flax |
Liparis | False twayblade |
Liparis loeselii | Fen orchid |
Lippia citriodora | Lemon beebrush |
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweet gum |
Liriodendron tulipfera | Tulip tree |
Liriodendron tulipifera 'Fastigiatum' | Tulip tree |
Liriope muscari | Lilyturf |
Listera cordata | Lesser twayblade |
Listera ovata | Twayblade, Common twayblade |
Livistona chinensis | Chinese fan palm, Chinese cabbage palm |
Lloydia serotina | Snowdon lily |
Lobelia | Lobelia |
Lobelia 'Crystal Palace' | Lobelia |
Lobelia 'Dark Crusader' | Lobelia |
Lobelia 'Fountain Mix' | Lobelia |
Lobelia 'Moondust Mix' | Lobelia |
Lobelia angulata | Panakenake, Pratia |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower, Lobelia |
Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' | Cardinal Flower |
Lobelia dortmanna | Lobelia |
Lobelia erinus | Lobelia |
Lobelia erinus 'Rainbow Cascade' | Trailing Lobelia |
Lobelia gibberoa | Lobelia |
Lobelia siphilitica | Lobelia |
Lobelia x gerardii 'Vedrariensis' | Lobelia |
Lobularia maririma | Sweet alyssum |
Loiseleuria procumbens | Alpine azalea, Trailing azalea |
Lolium | Ryegrass |
Lolium multiflorum | Italian ryegrass |
Lolium perenne | Perennial ryegrass |
Lolium temulentum | False wheat, Darnel, poison darnel, cockle |
Lonicera | Honeysuckle |
Lonicera 'Celestial' | Honeysuckle |
Lonicera caprifolium | Italian honeysuckle, Perfoliate honeysuckle |
Lonicera fragrantissima | Shrubby honeysuckle, Winter-flowering honeysuckle, Winter honeysuckle |
Lonicera fragrantissima subsp. fragrantissima | Shrubby honeysuckle, Winter-flowering honeysuckle, Winter honeysuckle |
Lonicera hildebrandiana | Giant honeysuckle |
Lonicera japonica | Japanese honeysuckle |
Lonicera japonica 'Halliana' | Evergreen honeysuckle |
Lonicera nitida | Chinese honeysuckle, Poor man's box |
Lonicera nitida var. fertilis | Box honeysuckle, Shubby honeysuckle |
Lonicera periclymenum | Honeysuckle, Wild honeysuckle, Common honeysuckle, Woodbine |
Lonicera periclymenum 'Belgica' | Early Dutch honeysuckle |
Lonicera periclymenum 'Graham Thomas' | Honeysuckle |
Lonicera periclymenum 'Serotina' | Late Dutch honeysuckle, Dutch honeysuckle |
Lonicera pileata | Privet honeysuckle |
Lonicera setifera | Honeysuckle, Winter flowering honeysuckle |
Lonicera standishii | Winter honeysuckle |
Lonicera x purpusii | Winter-flowering honeysuckle |
Lophophora williamsii | Peyote |
Loropetalum chinense | Chinese witch hazel |
Luffa aegyptiaca | Loofah, Sponge Gourd, The Loofah Gourd |
Lunaria annua | Honesty |
Lunaria annua 'Corfu Blue' | Honesty |
Lupinus | Lupin |
Lupinus 'Dwarf Strain' | Lupin |
Lupinus 'Manhattan Lights' | Lupin |
Lupinus 'Masterpiece' PBR | Lupin |
Lupinus 'Mixed Russell Hybrids' | Lupin |
Lupinus 'The Page' | Lupin |
Lupinus 'Tutti Frutti' | Lupin |
Lupinus albus | White Lupin, Egyptian Lupin, Wolf Bean |
Lupinus arboreus | Tree Lupin, Yellow Bush Lupine |
Lupinus chamissonis | Dune lupin |
Lupinus lepidus | Pacific Lupin |
Luronium natans | Floating water-plantain |
Luzula arcuata | Curved wood rush |
Luzula campestris | Field wood rush |
Luzula forsteri | Southern wood rush |
Luzula luzuloides | White wood rush |
Luzula maxima | Greater wood rush |
Luzula multiflora | Heath wood rush |
Luzula nivea | Snowy wood rush |
Luzula pallidula | Fen wood rush |
Luzula pilosa | Hairy wood rush |
Luzula spicata | Spiked wood rush |
Luzula sylvatica | Greater wood rush |
Luzula sylvatica 'Aurea' | Greater woodrush |
Luzula sylvatica 'Hohe Tatra' | Greater woodrush |
Lychnis chalcedonica | Maltese cross, Jerusalem Cross |
Lychnis coronaria | Rose campion |
Lychnis coronaria 'Alba' | White-flowered rose campion, White rose campion, White corn rose |
Lychnis flos-cuculi | Ragged robin |
Lycopersicon esculentum | Tomato |
Lycopus europaeus | Gypsywort |
Lysichiton americanus | American skink cabbage |
Lysichiton camtschatcensis | Asian skunk-cabbage, White skunk cabbage |
Lysimachia | Loosestrife, Yellow loosestrife |
Lysimachia atropurpurea | Loosestrife |
Lysimachia ciliata 'Firecracker' | Loosestrife |
Lysimachia clethroides | Loosetrife |
Lysimachia ephemerum | Loosestrife |
Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea' | Crepping jenny, Moneywort |
Lysimachia punctata | Loosestrife |
Lythrum salicaria | Purple loosestrife |