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Flora of Botswana: Utilities: List of genus vernacular names

The use of English names for genera is a new feature of the site and at present content is somewhat limited.

Click on a letter below to take you to the first genus whose name begins with that letter.

A
Aloe
Angel's trumpets

B
Basket grasses
Brambles
Bristle grasses
Bristle grasses
Buckwheats
Buttonweeds

C
Carrion-flowers
Catchflies
Cockleburs
Crowfoots

D
Docks
Dodder-laurels
Dodders

E
Evening primroses
Everlasting flowers

F
False thorns
Figs
Finger-grasses
Fleabanes
Fleabanes
Floating hearts
Flossflowers

G
Gallant-soldiers
Geraniums
Gladioluses
Goosefoots

H
Heart-seeds
Horsetails

J
Jasmines

K
Knotgrasses
Knotweeds

L
Lady's hands
Leadworts
Lettuces
Living stones
Lucky-bean trees

M
Maidenhair fern
Marigolds
Mints
Mistletoes

N
Naiads
Nightshades

O
Orchid trees

P
Passion flowers (Cultivated genus)
Pennyworts
Pinks
Pondweeds

Q
Quillworts

R
Rhodes grasses

S
Saltbush, Orache
Saltworts
Spade flowers
Starburs
Sundews
Swine-cresses

T
Tapegrasses
Thatching-grasses
Thorn trees
Tobaccos

V
Vlei-lilies

W
Water clover or clover fern.
Water-milfoils
Water-plantains
Willowherbs
Willows
Witchweeds

Y
Yams

Z
Zinnias

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