Potential Titles: Plants [category]

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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.

Almond.

Aloe.

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"

Borage:
Sphinxes from the ripe borage of death - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"

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"

Moon shadow among cattail roots - Chia Tao "South Lake" transl. by David Hinton

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)"

Cytisus:
Spent your love on the white cytisus ridges - [Annie Winifred Ellerman] Bryher "In Exile"

Diatom:
Microscopic diatoms swarmed in salt - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]

Duckweed:
Meandering along past pepperwort and duckweed - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Following Axe-Bamboo Stream, I Cross Over a Ridge and Hike on Along the River" transl. by David Hinton

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:
The perfect marriage of algae and fungi - Talvikki Ansel "The Lichens"

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.

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:
On the tufted herbage spread my purple vestments - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

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. --"

Ironwort:
The ironworts and snakeroots blossom on - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

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"

Koumi:
Black seed-pods from the koumi blow on it now - Tu Fu "I Will Be Alone" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg] I couldn't find anything plant adjacent by googling 'koumi,' but I think it's clear from context that it's a plant/tree of some sort.

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.

Liana:
Gird myself all over with liana - Shivanee Ramlochan "The Meaning of Trees"

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.

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.

Moly:
Flowers of infernal moly over nocturnal grass - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"

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"

A heavy dream roaming with mulleins and chameleons - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Mushroom.

Mycelium:
The embodied voices of mycelium - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

what mycelia spreads its speaking limbs beneath the floors - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

Desire branches like mycelium - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"

Nettle.

Nightshade.

Olive.

Osier:
Diffused its floating umbrage 'mid the silver shade of osiers - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. II"

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

As cypress above pliant osier towers - Virgil "Eclogues I" (transl. not identified)

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.

Peppervine:
Parrots very busy in the trellist pepper-vine - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"

Perennial:
Mannequins perennially enacting the nativity - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

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:
Followed the scent of pitcher plants cast across the river - Jennifer Elise Foerster "American History"

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"

Puffball:
Little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

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"

Choked with sedges works its weedy way - Oliver Goldsmith "The Deserted Village"

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"

Shoot [plant].

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"

Snakeroot:
The ironworts and snakeroots blossom on - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

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.

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"

Quickly sprouting toadstools in an evil yellow row - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

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"

Upas:
That in the heart is sown some upas-seed - Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis "Sonnets: The Oasis" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]

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:
Fresh verdure clothes each fairy-ring - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington "The Belle of a Season: Song [O Nature! let me dwell with thee]"

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"

Wild Onion:
Her hair hung in willow boughs, mine in wild onion - Ruth Awad "The Years of Water and Light" [Poetry Oct. 2019]

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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