#subshrub__suffrutex  low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
  supertype:  shrub__bush  a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches
  subtype:  darling_pea__poison_bush  either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep
     subtype:  smooth_darling_pea__Swainsona_galegifolia  erect or trailing perennial of eastern Australia having axillary racemes of blue to purple or red flowers
     subtype:  hairy_darling_pea__hairydarlingpea__Swainsona_greyana__Swainsona_grandiflora  shrubby perennial of southern Australia having downy or woolly stems and undersides of leaves and racemes of red to pink flowers
  subtype:  blue_star__Amsonia_tabernaemontana  subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes
  subtype:  periwinkle  chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
     subtype:  Vinca_minor__myrtle  widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers
     subtype:  large_periwinkle__largeperiwinkle__Vinca_major  plant having variegated foliage and used for window boxes
  subtype:  wild_sarsaparilla__false_sarsaparilla__falsesarsaparilla__wild_sarsparilla__Aralia_nudicaulis  common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America
  subtype:  American_spikenard__petty_morel__life-of-man__Aralia_racemosa  unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico
  subtype:  bristly_sarsaparilla__bristlysarsaparilla__bristlysarsparilla__dwarf_elder__Aralia_hispida  bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
  subtype:  bloodleaf  any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage
     subtype:  beef_plant__beefsteak_plant__beefsteakplant__Iresine_herbstii__Iresine_reticulata  South American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bracts
  subtype:  desert_plume__prince's-plume__Stanleya_pinnata__Cleome_pinnata  perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
  subtype:  matilija_poppy__California_tree_poppy__Romneya_coulteri  tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers
  subtype:  burdock__clotbur  any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
     subtype:  common_burdock__lesser_burdock__Arctium_minus  ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; most of Europe (except Arctic Caucasus) and North Africa
     subtype:  great_burdock__greatburdock__greater_burdock__greaterburdock__cocklebur__arctiumlappa  burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use
  subtype:  marguerite_daisy__marguerite__Paris_daisy__Chrysanthemum_frutescens__Argyranthemum_frutescens  perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum
  subtype:  wormwood  any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium
     subtype:  mugwort  any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia
        subtype:  western_mugwort__westernmugwort__white_sage__whitesage__cudweed__prairiesage__Artemisia_ludoviciana__Artemisia_gnaphalodes  perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
        subtype:  common_mugwort__Artemisia_vulgaris  European tufted aromatic perennial herb having hairy red or purple stems and dark green leaves downy white below and red-brown florets
     subtype:  southernwood__Artemisia_abrotanum  shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer
     subtype:  common_wormwood__absinthe__old_man__lad's_love__lad'slove__Artemisia_absinthium  aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
     subtype:  sweet_wormwood__sweetwormwood__Artemisia_annua  wormwood of southeastern Europe to Iran
     subtype:  field_wormwood__fieldwormwood__Artemisia_campestris  European wormwood similar to common wormwood in its properties
     subtype:  wormwood_sage__prairie_sagewort__prairiesagewort__Artemisia_frigida  silky-leaved aromatic perennial of dry northern parts of the northern hemisphere; has tawny florets
     subtype:  Roman_wormwood__Artemis_pontica  European wormwood; minor source of absinthe
     subtype:  beach_wormwood__beachwormwood__dusty_miller__dustymiller__oldwoman__Artemisia_stelleriana  herb with grayish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
     subtype:  sea_wormwood__seawormwood__Seriphidium_maritimum__Artemisia_maritima  plants of western and northern European coasts
  subtype:  sagebrush__sage_brush  any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
     subtype:  California_sagebrush__California_sage__Artemisia_californica  low ashy-gray California shrub
     subtype:  sand_sage__silvery_wormwood__silverywormwood__Artemisia_filifolia  silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands
     subtype:  bud_brush__budbrush__bud_sagebrush__budsagebrush__Artemis_spinescens  half-shrubby perennial valuable as sheep forage in the United States
     subtype:  silver_sage__silver_sagebrush__gray_sage__Seriphidium_canum__Artemisia_cana  low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant
     subtype:  big_sagebrush__bigsagebrush__blue_sage__Seriphidium_tridentatum__Artemisia_tridentata  aromatic shrub of arid regions of western North America having hoary leaves
  subtype:  bur_marigold__burmarigold__burr_marigold__beggar-ticks__beggar's-ticks__sticktight  any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
     subtype:  Bidens_bipinnata__spanish_needles__spanishneedle  common bur marigold of the eastern United States
     subtype:  tickseed_sunflower__Bidens_coronata__Bidens_trichosperma  North American bur marigold with large flowers
     subtype:  European_beggar-ticks__trifid_beggar-ticks__trifid_bur_marigold__Bidens_tripartita  of temperate Eurasia
     subtype:  swampy_beggar-ticks__Bidens_connata  bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows
  subtype:  centaury  any plant of the genus Centaurea
     subtype:  basket_flower__Centaurea_americana  annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple-rayed flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets
     subtype:  Centaurea_cineraria__dusty_miller__dustymiller__centaureagymnocarpa  a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust
     subtype:  star-thistle__caltrop__Centauria_calcitrapa  Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
     subtype:  knapweed  any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers
        subtype:  slender_knapweed__slenderknapweed  a variety of knapweed
        subtype:  Jersey_knapweed  a variety of knapweed
        subtype:  lesser_knapweed__black_knapweed__blackknapweed__hardheads__hardhead__Centaurea_nigra  a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized
        subtype:  great_knapweed__greatknapweed__greater_knapweed__greaterknapweed__Centaurea_scabiosa  tall European perennial having purple flower heads
  subtype:  matchweed__matchbush  any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches
     subtype:  little-head_snakeweed__Gutierrezia_microcephala  similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers
     subtype:  rabbitweed__snakeweed__broom_snakeweed__broomsnakeweed__broom_snakeroot__broomsnakeroot__turpentine_weed__Gutierrezia_sarothrae  low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
     subtype:  broomweed__Gutierrezia_texana  annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers
  subtype:  guayule__Parthenium_argentatum  much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
  subtype:  American_feverfew__wild_quinine__prairie_dock__prairiedock__Parthenium_integrifolium  stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba indians to treat burns
  subtype:  chaffweed__bastard_pimpernel__bastardpimpernel__false_pimpernel__falsepimpernel  weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
  subtype:  thrift  any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
     subtype:  cliff_rose__cliffrose__sea_pink__seapink__Armeria_maritima  tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover
  subtype:  sea_lavender__sealavender__marsh_rosemary__marshrosemary__statice  any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of whit or mauve flowers
  subtype:  corchorus__corchoru  any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute
  subtype:  diapensia  any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia
  subtype:  loosestrife.subshrub  any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum
     subtype:  purple_loosestrife__spiked_loosestrife__Lythrum_salicaria  marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States
     subtype:  grass_poly__grasspoly__hyssop_loosestrife__Lythrum_hyssopifolia  annual with small solitary pink flowers; originally of Europe but widely naturalized in moist areas
  subtype:  deer_grass__meadow_beauty  any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America
  subtype:  St_John's_wort  any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil
     subtype:  common_St_John's_wort__tutsan__Hypericum_androsaemum  deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain
     subtype:  great_St_John's_wort__Hypericum_ascyron__Hypericum_pyramidatum  perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes
     subtype:  creeping_St_John's_wort__Hypericum_calycinum  creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover
     subtype:  orange_grass__nitweed__pineweed__Hypericum_gentianoides  annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers
     subtype:  St_Andrews's_cross__Hypericum_crux_andrae  shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas
     subtype:  low_St_Andrew's_cross__Hypericum_hypericoides  low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico
     subtype:  klammath_weed__Hypericum_perforatum  yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands
     subtype:  shrubby_St_John's_wort__Hypericum_prolificum__Hypericum_spathulatum  stiff shrub having oblong entire leaves and dense cymes of yellow flowers
     subtype:  St_Peter's_wort__Hypericum_tetrapterum__Hypericum_maculatum  European perennial St John's wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia
     subtype:  marsh_St-John's_wort__Hypericum_virginianum  perennial marsh herb with pink to mauve flowers; southeastern United States
  subtype:  false_heather__falseheather__golden_heather__Hudsonia_ericoides  North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
  subtype:  beach_heather__beachheather__poverty_grass__povertygras__Hudsonia_tomentosa  small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
  subtype:  partridge_pea__partridgepea__sensitive_pea__sensitivepea__wild_sensitive_plant__Chamaecrista_fasciculata__Cassia_fasciculata  tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
  subtype:  sicklepod__Senna_obtusifolia__Cassia_tora  cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
  subtype:  tick_trefoil__beggar_lice__beggar's_lice  any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
     subtype:  beggarweed__Desmodium_tortuosum__Desmodium_purpureum  West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil
  subtype:  sweet_vetch__sweetvetch__Hedysarum_boreale  perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints
  subtype:  French_honeysuckle__sulla__Hedysarum_coronarium  perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop
  subtype:  horseshoe_vetch__horseshoevetch__Hippocrepis_comosa  European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
  subtype:  cube.plant  any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
  subtype:  prairie_bird's-foot_trefoil__compass_plant__compassplant__prairie_lotus__prairielotu__prairie_trefoil__prairietrefoil__Lotus_americanus  North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers
  subtype:  coral_gem__coralgem__Lotus_berthelotii  low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States
  subtype:  bird's_foot_clover__bird's_foot_trefoil__babies'_slippers__bacon_and_eggs__Lotus_corniculatus  European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America
  subtype:  wild_lupine__sundial_lupine__sundiallupine__Indian_beet__old-maid's_bonnet__Lupinus_perennis  stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
  subtype:  Ononis_repens__restharrow  European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners
  subtype:  restharrow__Ononis_spinosa  Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots
  subtype:  hoary_pea__hoarypea  a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods
     subtype:  Tephrosia_purpurea__bastard_indigo__bastardindigo  East Indian shrub
     subtype:  catgut__goat's_rue__wild_sweet_pea__Tephrosia_virginiana  perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
  subtype:  prince's-feather__princess_feather__kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate__prince's-plume__Polygonum_orientale  annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
  subtype:  eriogonum  any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers
     subtype:  Eriogonum_allenii__umbrella_plant  late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
     subtype:  wild_buckwheat__California_buckwheat__Erigonum_fasciculatum  low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah)
  subtype:  mountain_avens__Dryas_octopetala  creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America
  subtype:  avens__aven  any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers
     subtype:  Geum_alleppicum_strictum__yellow_avens__Geum_strictum  erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America
     subtype:  Geum_canadense__bennet__white_avens  North American white-flowered avens
     subtype:  yellow_avens__Geum_macrophyllum  hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America
     subtype:  water_avens__wateraven__Indian_chocolate__purple_avens__chocolate_root__chocolateroot__Geum_rivale  erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and few nodding flowers with brown-purple calyx and orange-pink petals
     subtype:  prairie_smoke__prairiesmoke__purple_avens__Geum_triflorum  North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits
     subtype:  herb_bennet__cloveroot__wood_avens__Geum_urbanum  hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally
     subtype:  bennet__white_avens__Geum_virginianum  avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers
  subtype:  Western_sand_cherry__Rocky_Mountains_cherry__Prunus_besseyi  dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit
  subtype:  woodruff  any plant of the genus Asperula
     subtype:  dyer's_woodruff__Asperula_tinctoria  creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing
  subtype:  twinflower__Linnaea_borealis  creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs
     subtype:  American_twinflower__Linnaea_borealis_americana  similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia
  subtype:  milkwort  any of various plants of the genus Polygala
     subtype:  Polygala_alba__senega  perennial bushy herb of Central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot
     subtype:  orange_milkwort__yellow_milkwort__candyweed__yellow_bachelor's_button__Polygala_lutea  bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers
     subtype:  flowering_wintergreen__floweringwintergreen__gaywings__bird-on-the-wing__fringed_polygala__fringedpolygala__Polygala_paucifolia  common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
     subtype:  Seneca_snakeroot__Seneka_snakeroot__senga_root__sengaroot__senega_root__senega_snakeroot__Polygala_senega  eastern North American plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots
     subtype:  common_milkwort__gand_flower__Polygala_vulgaris  small European perennial with numerous branches having racemes of blue, pink or white flowers; formerly reputed to promote human lactation
  subtype:  caltrop__devil's_weed__devil'sweed__Tribulus_terestris  tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
  subtype:  pachysandra  any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover
     subtype:  Allegheny_spurge__Allegheny_mountain_spurge__Pachysandra_procumbens  low semi-evergreen perennial herb having small spikes of white or pinkish flowers; native to southern United States but grown elsewhere
     subtype:  Japanese_spurge__Pachysandra_terminalis  slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground cover
  subtype:  pinwheel__Aeonium_haworthii  perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
  subtype:  phlomis  any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage
  subtype:  Jerusalem_sage__Phlomis_fruticosa  a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers
  subtype:  germander  any of various plants of the genus Teucrium
     subtype:  American_germander__wood_sage__Teucrium_canadense  subshrub with serrate leaves and cream to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
     subtype:  wall_germander__Teucrium_chamaedrys  European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots
     subtype:  cat_thyme__catthyme__marum__Teucrium_marum  Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers; attractive to cats
     subtype:  wood_sage__Teucrium_scorodonia  European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America
  subtype:  blue_curls  any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers
     subtype:  black_sage__blacksage__wooly_blue_curls__California_romero__Trichostema_lanatum  aromatic wooly-leaved plant of southern California and Mexico
     subtype:  turpentine_camphor_weed__camphorweed__vinegarweed__Trichostema_lanceolatum  aromatic plant of western United States
     subtype:  bastard_pennyroyal__bastardpennyroyal__Trichostema_dichotomum  aromatic plant of the eastern United States
  subtype:  eryngo__eringo  any plant of the genus Eryngium

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