Plants - Parts [category].
Some edible plants are under:
Potential Titles: Food [category].
Potential Titles: Fruit [category].
Potential Titles: Grain [category].
There are some edible things below and some medicinal herbs. For the former, I either didn't want to duplicate or found cases where the word was used for both edible and inedible plants. For the latter, I didn't want to research.
Edible herbs and spices used in food/drink (assuming I recognized them as such) can be found here:
Food - Herbs & Spices [category].
Acanthus:
The acanthus, the molecules of resin - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Aconite:
About your feet spontaneous aconite - D.H. Lawrence "Purple Anemones"
With shudders chill as aconite - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"
Lifting the green head of aconite - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Acorn.
Adder-tongues:
Adder-tongues in coats of gold - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"
The chaperone lingers at the adder's-tongue - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
Agave:
Looking at the agave outside my window - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
Whisper once into the heart of the agave - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
[See also: Century Plant].
Algae:
Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"
Come hurricane, come rip current, come toxic algal bloom - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
Bubbles up fabulous algal paints - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Better than soot or algae's wet sigh - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
Almond.
Aloe:
Slender shards of aloe escaping - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"
Aloes to cool the burn - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
Bring excess of myrrh and aloe - Michael Field "Blessed Are the Beggars Matt. v. 3"
Thorns out-grown like spiked aloe - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Threw the pot of aloe from the balcony - Noah Warren "Wind"
Amanita:
The blood red amanitas pushed out of the earth - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
Angel Hair:
Wading through jewelweed strangled by angel's hair - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Bamboo.
Beanstalk: See
Bean.
Belladonna:
The drunken birds in the belladonna - Frank Stanford "My Day Is Over"
Bindweed.
Bitterroot:
Daunting mountains and bitterroots - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Bittersweet.
Blackthorn:
Blackthorn petals pearl the breeze - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
Blood-root:
Bloodroot and wake-robin rest in quiet slumber - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
The blood-root in its sheath of gray - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
Plaid patterns push against bloodroot - John McCarthy "General Electric Monitor Top"
Botanical/Botany:
If forgiveness were botanical - Chiyuma Elliott "Tinder"
Drifting parabotanical evasion - fahima ife "recrudescence"
As germane as botanic - Aditi Machado "nation"
Some overzealous botanist might travel there to collect the last flower - Keith Taylor "Between Home and Isle Royale"
Bracken.
Bramble.
Briar.
Briony:
Wind uplifts the briony leaves - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Bulrush:
Melting ice and brown islands of bulrush - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Burdock:
All other routes are sown with burdock - Mary Jo Bang "Nonesuch"
Small bones scattered in a field among burdocks - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together One: A Night in the Barn"
Bush.
Cactus.
Calabash:
That calabash is pledged to silence - Grace Nichols "Ole Higue"
Camphorweed:
A garland of buds plucked from the camphorweed - Divya Victor "Blood/Soil"
Cane.
Cattails:
Made fields of cattails kneel - Ariana Benson "Love Poem in the Black Field"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Perches on trampled cat tail reeds - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"
Century Plant:
The majestic blooming of the century plant - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"
[See also: Agave].
Chaparral:
Riding off into the moonlessly blue chaparral - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"
Chicory:
To cook down to syrup with chicory leaves and clover - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
Leave the chicory where it stands - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"
Clover.
Cocklebur:
The cockleburs tore our feet open - John McCarthy "Toughness"
Cohosh:
The blue ashes snap and uproot cohosh - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"
Copal:
Kindle leaves & clay with rare copal - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"
Crabgrass:
Seven hills of scraped earth topped with crab grass - Philip Levine "Drum"
This stubborn patch of crabgrass - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Diatom:
Microscopic diatoms swarmed in salt - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Duckweed:
Lions of the duckweed, dragons of the Water - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "newt"
Ergot:
what ergot saddles we ride - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
Fern.
Feverfew:
The feverfew my grandmother grew - Judy Patterson Wenzel "'Twas a Beautiful Day"
Fever-seed:
Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Ficus:
Split three pills with my ficus - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"
Fiddlehead Fern:
Mirror the fetal scroll of fiddlehead ferns - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Firethorn:
Mugwort, red clover, firethorn for compost & company - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Flora/Floral.
Flower [category].
Foliage.
Fungus:
Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Gorse.
Gourd:
Honey in the hearts of gourds - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Dashing the red gourd of light - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"
Like the gourd which Jonas had - Simon Wastell "Man's Mortality"
Grapevine:
In the grapevine of Babylon - Bruce Smith "Garden"
Grass.
Greenery:
Within my narrow garden's greenery - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Gymnosperm:
Gymnosperms by the punch bowl - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Hay.
Heather.
Hedge.
Hemp:
Who made the thread of flax and hemp - Francis Burrows "The Unforgotten"
Wild paths through mulberry and hemp - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson
Sun warm on mulberry and hemp - Su Tung-p'o "[Soft grasses, a plain of sedge]" transl. by Burton Watson
The flaxen hemp still plaits its chain - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Henbane:
Of henbane steeped in chaff - Maya Angelou "To a Freedom Fighter"
Henbane for predators - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
From the sorrel leaf and the henbane bud - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Night-shade's ugly blue and spotted henbane shall grow up - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Herb.
Herbaceous:
Groans through herbaceous thunderclaps - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 3" transl. by Katherine Silver
Herbage:
Where the herbage is like sweet ointment - "XXII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Holly.
Hybrid.
Hyssop:
In the hyssop, vinegar, and gall - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"
Broke hyssop and bramble - H.D. "The Helmsman"
A pleasant draught of bitter hyssop - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Ivy.
Jimsonweed:
Drained floodplains and eucharistic jimson weed - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Through mullein stalks and jimson-weeds - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"
Kelp.
Knapweed:
A wild mustang asleep in the knapweed - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
Knotgrass:
Disappearing into knotgrass and bindweed - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy"
Kudzu:
The kudzu spreads till it darkens - "The Book of Odes: No.124 The Kudzu Spreads Till It Darkens the Brier" transl. by Burton Watson
This time, we're going to let kudzu have a shot - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
Laurel.
Lichen.
Liverwort:
Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Lotus.
Mallow:
Gathering mallows to be my mantle - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
With the gods on mallows dined - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Green mallows enfolding the dew - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
The wind in the mallow flowers - Po Chu'i "Pouring Out My Feelings after Parting from Yuan Chen" transl. by Burton Watson
Mandrake:
Through mandrake groves and tangled vines - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
The mandrake root that fattens in the gloom - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Sandalwood and mandrake - Nicole Sealey "and"
Meadowsweet:
meadowsweet softened by drizzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Milk Vetch:
Milk vetch, tumbleweed, and sticker bush - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"
Milkweed.
Mistletoe:
The mistletoe with globes of sheenless grey - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
In the old woods leave the mistletoe - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
No garden here, apples nor mistletoe - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"
One kiss beneath the mistletoe - Nora C. Usher "Mistletoe" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.49--v.I, 6 Dec. 1884]
Moss.
Mullein:
The stately mullein rears its brown and withered crest - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Through mullein stalks and jimson-weeds - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"
Mushroom.
Mycelium:
The embodied voices of mycelium - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Desire branches like mycelium - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"
Nettle.
Nightshade.
Olive.
Osier:
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank - John Milton "Sabrina"
Fields of flax and of osiers red - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Paspalum:
Feet callused from paspalum and rye - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"
Peas.
Peat:
Out of the black maw of the peat - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
Give me wild things of moss and peat - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Peatmoss:
From the peatmoss of our winter-keep - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"
Pennyroyal:
The dream-side of a pennyroyal river - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
Pepper.
Perennial:
Like perennials you'd forgotten to expect - Carl Phillips "Moralia"
Where perennials wake in competent dirt - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Philodendron:
In the language of philodendrons - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
Pigweed:
Masses of pigweed and bramble - Tu Fu "The Man with No Family To Take Leave Of" transl. by Burton Watson
Pinecone:
Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
Pinecones and primrose marshes - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Heard a pinecone fall - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Invitation"
Pitcher Plant:
This honey-glanded pitcher plant - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 11"
Plankton:
My many plankton realities - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"
Flickering fish and swirls of tiny plankton - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"
Plant.
Poison Ivy:
Hatreds that have grown like poison ivy - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Poison Oak:
Raised on poison oak and poppies - Ada Limon "Territory"
Pumpkin.
Ragweed:
Inhale the posh scent of ragweed - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"
Rue and ragweed everywhere - Madison Cawein "Waste Land"
With dock and ragweed filled - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Rattan:
A mask of rattan and hair - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"
Reed.
Rhododendron:
Hugged close by the cool rhododendron - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The math-prone leaves of every rhododendron - Conrad Hilberry "Subtract the Digits"
Rhododendra grow through stone - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Rhododendron start the process of shadows - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"
Rush [plant].
Sagebrush:
The smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
Wild geese moved like a wedge between sky and sagebrush - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
A music of sagebrush and bluebonnetts - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"
Sandalwood:
Let him fashion you from sandalwood - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"
paper from the inner bark of sandalwood - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Sandalwood and mandrake - Nicole Sealey "and"
Sea Grass:
Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"
Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"
The rhapsodic seep and spray of sea grasses - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Seaweed.
Sedge:
Purple iris in the woodland sedge - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"
Slipped among sedges out of sight - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Kingfishers ruffle the feathery sedge - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"
Seed.
Seedling:
Summons tiny seedlings from the mud - John James "Lullaby"
Between the floorboards seedlings rise - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Joy the seedling of a dream - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Shallot:
Horizon like a shallot in my palm - Zaina Alsous "A Non-Euclidean View of Backwards as a Warm Place to Be"
Shore-grass:
Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"
Shrub.
Skunk Cabbage:
The skunk cabbage raising bursting violet spheres - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"
Sod.
Sorrel.
Spanish Moss:
Silences that hang like Spanish moss - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"
That clings with nails to Spanish moss - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Spiderwort:
Who bound the ogre with a fetter of spiderwort - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Down in the Clover"
Spinifex:
Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"[plant]
Starwort:
In a carpet of starwort and cress - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Straw.
Succulent:
Succulent pillows of salt and sea - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
Succulents when the rain was scarce - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
Herbs and succulents on their windowsills - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Sugarcane:
On the other side of sugarcane - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"
Sweetbriar:
Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"
Touched by sweetbriar and tangled vetch - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
Sweetgrass:
Sweetgrass ash in the shadows - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Will welcome you with sweetgrass and sage - N. Scott Momaday "Song of Longing"
Switchgrass:
The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"
Tares:
To sow the tares of hatred in a soil prepared - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
By whose hands were sown rank tares - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"
And for my faith reaped tares - Capt. James Sprent "A Confession of Faith" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
And sowed his
tares among the wheat - "The Tares and the Wheat" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]
Thicket.
Thistle.
Timothy [plant]:
Wading through nothing but timothy grass - Maggie Smith "Threshold" [Poetry Feb. 2020]
Toadstool:
Always keeping in mind the distinction between mushroom and toadstools - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"
Tobacco.
Topiary:
Topiary cleaved along a zigzag divide - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"
Ground down and thrown on the metallic topiary - Joanne Merriam "Improving on Nature"
Trees [category].
Tumbleweed.
Underbrush:
Feral cats in the underbrush - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"
Hiding in the underbrush with hopes - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Stop, besieged by underbrush - A.M. Juster "I Sit Half-Naked"
And the underbrush of the world - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
Undergrowth:
Braving the dead undergrowth together - Mouna Ammar "Daydream"
The undergrowth of many-stemmed machines - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Vasevine:
The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"
Vegetation:
Subsist on vegetation and luck - Kristen Tracy "Fable Revisited"
Vegetables.
Verdant.
Verdure:
Slander's snakes within the verdure lurk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Vervain:
And the red seed of the red vervain - H.D. "Simaetha"
A skein of foxfire and the bruised scent of vervain - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
Vetch:
Touched by sweetbriar and tangled vetch - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
Milk vetch, tumbleweed, and sticker bush - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"
Vine.
Weed.
Wild Carrot:
White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
Wisteria.
Witch Hazel:
Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Unless you carve witch hazel in the old style - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"
Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Woad:
Pricked clear against a splash of woad - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Wormseed:
Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"
Wormwood.
Yarrow.
Yucca:
A common fritillary avoiding the wind in the yucca - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
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