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Spinacia oleracea

Spinach

Photo: Forest and Kim Starr · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

Ocimum basilicum

Basil

Photo: Forest and Kim Starr · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

Mentha spica plant

Mint

Photo: Forest-and-Kim-Starr · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

A pile of harvested cherry and cocktail tomatoes.

Cherry tomato

Photo: Anh Van · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Cropped for display.

Flower heads (some still in bud) with orange & yellow flowers.

French marigold

Photo: Taco Witte · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

Zinnia elegans

Zinnia

Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

Trailing vine with green and yellow, heart-shaped leaves.

Pothos

Photo: Sergei · CC0. Cropped for display.

Form

Snake plant

Photo: Lucy Bradley · CC0. Cropped for display.

Bright green, loose ruffled leaves of Ashbrook lettuce growing in soil.

Leaf lettuce

Photo: DeFacto · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Loose-leaf lettuce, cultivar Ashbrook.

Small round red radishes growing at the soil surface beneath green leaves.

Radish

Photo: Rasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped for display.

Dense, deeply curled green leaves on a mature curly kale plant.

Kale

Photo: Rasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped for display.

A green bell pepper with broad lobes hanging from a leafy garden plant.

Bell pepper

Photo: Cathy Dewitt · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display.

Fresh cilantro plants with bright green lobed leaves in nursery pots.

Cilantro

Photo: Forest and Kim Starr · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

A clump of common chives with slender green leaves and round purple flower heads.

Chives

Photo: Pohled 111 · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display.

Purple-pink funnel-shaped petunia flowers with darker veins among green leaves.

Petunia

Photo: Malcolm Manners · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display. Hybrid petunia flowers; the pictured cultivar and multiflora class are unverified.

A yellow Henry Wilde sunflower bloom opening around a dark central disk.

Dwarf sunflower

Photo: Hope Duckworth · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display. Illustrative sunflower bloom: Henry Wilde, not the dwarf Junior cultivar covered by this guide.

Flat, deeply divided green parsley leaves on slender stems.

Parsley

Photo: Will Lewis · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display.

A rosemary shoot with narrow green needle-like leaves.

Rosemary

Photo: Cathy Dewitt · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display.

A pile of harvested slender green snap-bean pods.

Bush bean

Photo: David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display.

Long green cucumbers hanging from a leafy vine in a greenhouse.

Cucumber

Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped for display.

A red nasturtium flower with a yellow center among green stems and leaves.

Nasturtium

Photo: Hope Duckworth · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display.

A bee visits a pink-and-white cosmos flower with a yellow central disk.

Cosmos

Photo: Curt Hiller · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display.

A spider plant with arching green-and-white striped leaves and hanging plantlets.

Spider plant

Photo: Joanne Kollar (Pitt County) · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display.

A potted ZZ plant with upright stems and glossy green leaflets.

ZZ plant

Photo: Andreas Hammerschmidt · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped for display.

A dill plant with upright stems and fine, feathery green foliage.

Dill

Photo: Magnus Brath · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

A thyme sprig with tiny narrow green leaves held against a dark gardening glove.

Thyme

Photo: Forest and Kim Starr · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

Harvested orange carrots piled together with their cut stem ends facing forward.

Carrot

Photo: Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0. Cropped for display.

Red ripe and pale unripe strawberries hanging beneath green leaves.

Strawberry

Photo: Fomulaax · CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped for display.

Orange and yellow calendula flowers above green leaves in a garden bed.

Calendula

Photo: Roberto Verozo · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

A mass of small white sweet-alyssum flowers with yellow-green centers.

Sweet alyssum

Photo: Carl Lewis · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

A potted peace lily with glossy, pointed green leaves on a white stand.

Peace lily

Photo: Sherri Barras · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display.

Clusters of fleshy oval green jade-plant leaves on branching stems.

Jade plant

Photo: S.G.S. · CC0 1.0. Cropped for display.

A red original Knock Out rose opening its layered petals against a soft garden-center background.

Shrub rose

Photo: David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized and re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Purple English-lavender flowers on slender upright stems against a soft green background.

English lavender

Photo: Aneo · CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped for display. Re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 2.0.

A conical cluster of creamy white Little Lime hydrangea flowers among fresh green leaves.

Panicle hydrangea

Photo: Randy Harter · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display. Re-encoded as WebP.

An open Krinkled White peony with a single cup of crinkled white petals surrounding bright yellow stamens.

Peony

Photo: David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

A large open dahlia with layered peach, blush-pink and soft yellow petals in a sunny garden.

Dahlia

Photo: Jim Janke · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display. Re-encoded as WebP.

Pink sweet-pea flowers climbing through a cottage-garden border beside an old stone wall.

Sweet pea

Photo: Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized and re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

A spike of pale pink foxglove bells with deep burgundy spots inside the open flowers.

Foxglove

Photo: Parent Gery · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped for display. Re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 3.0.

An open pink hollyhock flower with a deep rose center and pale yellow stamens.

Hollyhock

Photo: Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped for display. Re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 3.0.

A lavender-blue Arabella clematis flower with six gently recurved tepals and pale spreading stamens.

Clematis

Photo: Wilrooij · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Coral-pink zonal geranium flowers held in rounded clusters above scalloped green leaves.

Geranium

Photo: Forest and Kim Starr · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

A pink wax-begonia flower with yellow stamens above glossy bronze-green leaves.

Begonia

Photo: Dinkum · CC0 1.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

Pink and red tulip flowers rising above broad, blue-green leaves in a garden bed.

Tulip

Photo: Cathy Dewitt · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

White snapdragon flowers with small yellow throats clustered along green stems.

Snapdragon

Photo: David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Violet-pink impatiens flowers with small white centers among oval green leaves.

Impatiens

Photo: Carole McHale · CC BY 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

Harvested white and purple-streaked garlic bulbs with dried roots and papery skins.

Garlic

Photo: Filo gèn' · CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Two bunches of yellow bulb onions hang to dry with their green tops attached.

Onion

Photo: Ztaffanb · CC0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

Freshly dug sweet potatoes with reddish-tan skins lie on grass beside their vine.

Sweet potato

Photo: Vmenkov · CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP. Image adaptation available under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pendant pink Christmas-cactus flowers hang from flattened green stems with rounded, scalloped edges.

Christmas cactus

Photo: Joe deSousa · CC0 1.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

A potted Monstera deliciosa with glossy green leaves split into deep lobes and natural holes.

Monstera

Photo: Maja Dumat · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.

A cluster of ripe blue and unripe green blueberries beside a fresh green leaf.

Blueberry

Photo: Rob Thurman · CC BY 2.0. Cropped for display. Resized where applicable and re-encoded as WebP.