Photos: Plant Photos

Photos of plants. This is a broad category including wild plants and landscape plants, as well as houseplants.

Small beetle grubs, showing white bodies with black spots and brown heads

Larvae of the False Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa juncta, on a Carolina Horsenettle

A large yellow flower with four petals, in sunlight, with deeply lobed green foliage behind

A Wood Poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, in Bloom

Blue wood aster, showing many small light blue daisy-like flowers, with red centers

Blue Wood Aster at Grays Ferry Crescent Trail, Philadelphia

Closeup of blue wood aster flowers in a flower bed

A Blue Wood Aster Growing in a Philadelphia Flowerbed

Closeup photo of Doll's Eyes plant, showing big white berries on a red stem, and green, toothed leaves

Doll's Eyes Plant, or White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

Ironweed, with dark green leaves and vibrant purple flowers, with one leaf showing damage from a leaf borer

Ironweed (Vernonia sp.) in Bloom, Showing Leaf Borer Damage

A dense mat of blue-green grass

A Mat of Nimblewill Grass, Growing Near a Street

A type of grass with small blades, growing among other plants

Nimblewill (Muhlenbergia schreberi) Grass Growing Among Other Plants

A close-up of a grass species with blue-green leaves

Nimblewill Grass (Muhlenbergia schreberi), Close-up

A wood nettle, showing some green-and-white variegation on its leaves, illuminated by bright sunlight, on the forest floor

Wood Nettle (Laportea canadensis?) with Natural Variegation

A Christmas Camellia with bright red-pink blooms with yellow centers, dark evergreen leaves, and a few unopened buds

Christmas Camellia (Camellia sasanqua)

A bare branch of a Christmas Camellia showing pruning and a young, bright green resprout, with blooms in the background

Christmas Camellia Resprouting after Pruning

Tough dark green evergreen leaves of a Christmas Camellia, showing serration and coming to a point

Christmas Camellia (Camellia sasanqua) Evergreen Leaves

A blooming Christmas Camellia, an evergreen plant with tough, dark green pointy leaves, showing big red blossoms with yellow centers.

Christmas Camellia (Camellia sasanqua) Blooms

A row of Christmas Camellias, in bloom, evergreen plants with big red flowers, outside a relatively ugly blue building

Christmas Camellia & Relatively Ugly Architecture

Closeup of a perilla plant, with broad, yellow-green opposite leaves, showing fine hairs on the leaves

Perilla Plant, Closeup

A perilla plant growing in a flower bed in an urban area

Perilla Plant, 40th Street, Philadelphia

Deeply lobed, serrated maple leaves, a dark red color

Silver Maple (Armstrong Maple?) with Red Leaves

Perilla, growing wild amongst other plants

Perilla, John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge

A ginger root, with two green sprouts coming out of it, on a table

Ginger Root, Sprouting

Three large planters of ornamental sweet potatoes, on a brick sidewalk, with leaves and plants torn off and lying on the ground

Ornamental Sweet Potatoes, After Hurricane Irene

Two morning glory flowers, with light blue-purple blooms and red-purple veins, and white centers

Closeup of Purple Morning Glory Flowers

Blue-purple morning glories blooming, on a chain link fence, sunlight filtering through

Blue/Purple Morning Glories on Chain-Link Fence

A coffee plant, with smooth, dark green, pointed leaves, opposite on stems, growing on a windowsill

Coffee Plant Houseplant

Fragrant sumac extending over a brick path, wth sets of three light green leaflets with soft, round lobes, leaves branching in alternate fashion from stems

Fragrant Sumac Foliage, Woodland Walk, Philadelphia

English ivy growing as a houseplant, on a windowsill

English Ivy Houseplant

A Dracaena fragrans, Janet Craig Compacta, a small houseplant with dense, dark-green leaves growing in a radial pattern, a bit like leaves on a corn stalk but much denser

Dracaena (Dracaena fragrans), Janet Craig Compacta

A small pot containing a small fiddle-leaf fig plant with three stems, on a windowsill

Fiddle-leaf Fig, Ficus lyrata, Houseplant

Foliage of an eastern whitecedar, showing foliage made up of flat scales rather than needles

Foliage of Eastern Whitecedar or American Arborvitae

A poison ivy plant growing diagonally along a chain link fence with green slats in it

Poison Ivy Growing Diagonally Along Chain Link Fence

A sunflower facing the other direction, displaying yellow petals around the edge, broad leaves somewhat wrinkled, a chain link fence and some wires and trees and a builidng in the background

Sunflower Facing Away

A double daylily, orange and flame-red, and a closed bud, with other plants and a rock in the background

Double Daylily, Orange

A straggling prickly pear cactus overflowing from a pot on a city sidewalk, up against a building, with numerous unripe fruit

Opuntia (Prickly Pear) Plant with Unripe Fruit (Cactus Pears)

A single ripe red cactus pear on an opuntia cactus

Cactus Pear on Cactus

Red shiso or perilla, showing broad purple-red leaves with some green, with an opposite-leaf growth habit like coleus or basil

Red Shiso (Perilla frutescens)

Photo of red shiso, a basil-like plant with dark red leaves, growing in cracks in a sidewalk, with a few other plants coming up as well

Red Shiso (Perilla) Growing in Cracks in a Brick Sidewalk

Closeup photo of a small flower showing two pale blue petals, and yellow-tipped stamens hanging down, with blurry green vegetation in the background

Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) Blossom Closeup

Leaves and young branches of a paper mulberry tree, showing large, deeply lobed leaves covered with dense hairs, branching from hairy stems in both opposite and alternate patterns.

Paper Mulberry Tree Showing Both Alternate and Opposite Leaves

Leaves of a juneberry bush, showing a pointed oval shape with very finely serrated edges, the bush on the left in a bed with ivy, and a brick path on the right.

Juneberry Leaves, Woodland Walk, Philadelphia

Kudzu vines growing over something, completely covering it, with a plain modern building in the background.

Kudzu Infestation in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia

Photo of Trumpet Vine Leaves and Flowers, long compound leaves with opposite leaflefs, and red-orange trumpet-shaped flowers in clusters

Trumpet Vine Leaves and Flowers

A small city street with three story red brick rowhouses, with a massive trumpet vine growing on something like a street tree, with dark green foliage and bright reddish-orange trumpet-shaped flowers

Trumpet Vine on a Philadelphia Street

Vacant lot showing numerous weedy plants, some exposed ground, and two bare walls along the back, with a brick house viewable behind

Vacant Lot at Fairmount Ave and American Ave in Philadelphia

Peppergrass plant, showing unripe seedheads of numerous green, flat seeds, growing from a spindly-looking plant with thin, wiry, dark green leaves

Peppergrass (Lepidium virginicum)

Common ragweed plants in a vacant lot, showing rich foliage of finely-divided, almost fernlike leaves, viewed from above

Common Ragweed Plants, Philadelphia

Closeup photo of a hop vine, showing deeply lobed leaves with a rough-looking texture

Hop Vine Closeup, Philadelphia

A hop vine, with deeply lobed leaves, climbing a chain-lined fence, with a red gate on the left, sidewalk in foreground, and some weedy plants in the back

Hop Vines Growing Wild, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia

Red Camellia leaves, with black ants and tiny green aphids on them, and green leaves in the background

Ants Tending Aphids on Camellia Leaves

A camellia bush, an evergreen bush with serrated, pointed, oval-shaped leaves, showing a sprout with young, red leaves, with ants walking on it

Red Camellia Leaves With Ants

A common plantain plant, showing tough, round leaves with ridges, growing radially, in some mulch

Common Plantain (Plantago major) in Mulch, Philadelphia

A juneberry bush with rounded leaves, and numerous blueberry-shaped berries, of varying colors from greenish white to pinks and deep purples

Juneberries (Serviceberries) on Tree, Woodland Walk, Philadelphia

A small poison ivy plant with deeply-cut lobes on the leaflets, with a few leaves showing more than three leaflets

Poison Ivy with More Than Three Leaflets

Photo of a black locust branch with round leaflets on leaves, and large clusters of light pink flowers

Black Locust with Pink Flowers

A segment of grass near a sidewalk, with violets and dandelions blooming, and clover

Biodiverse Grass, Bryn Athyn, PA

A young American chestnut sapling, showing large, long, pointed, serrated leaves, staked, growing in grass

American Chestnut Sapling, Tanger Arboretum, Lancaster, PA

Variegated Japanese knotweed, with a dense tangle of foliage and stems, showing mostly white leaves with green flecks, some yellowish leaves, and pink or red on the stalks where the leaves branch off

Variegated Japanese Knotweed

A young giant hogweed plant, with immense parsley-like leaves, sprouting out amongst other numerous leafy plants in spring

Giant Hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum, White Clay Creek State Park, Delaware

Bloodroot leaves, oddly shaped leaves, broad, heart-like with lobes near the tip, among other leafy plants close to the ground

Bloodroot And Other Plants

A Canada Goose in a shallow creek, with box elder foliage in the foreground

Canada Goose, White Clay Creek, and Box Elders

A wild hop vine, with rough, deeply lobed leaves, and jewelweed, leafing out in spring together in an area with dead straw-like leaves

Wild Hops and Jewelweed

A tropical-looking evergreen plant with tough leaves, light green with yellow spots, in a bed of myrtle with lavender blooms

Spotted Laurel (Acuba japonica variegata)

A flowering tree with white blossoms, with most of its branches broken off and scattered about the ground, in a suburban commercial area

Flowering Tree (Bradford Pear?) Damaged by Ice

Bittersweet nightshade, showing green, red, and orange berries, and dark green heart-shaped leaves, climbing a chain link fence, with dead grass in the background.

Bittersweet Nightshade Climbing a Chain Link Fence

Photo of a plant on the forest floor with a cluster of bright red berries, and two radially arranged sets of leaves with well-defined veins.

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) Leaves and Fruit

A low branch of a balsam fir tree, showing numerous thin needles, coming off branches in a neatly branching, flat arrangement, with leaf litter visible on the forest floor below

Foliage (Needles) of a Balsam Fir Tree in Maine

Wetlands with tall reeds and cattails, and a few small plants in the foreground, showing a brief patch of water and sky, the water reflecting clouds in a bright sky showing purplish colors of a sunset

Shaker Lakes Wetlands, near Sunset

Dark, curling branches of a curly (corkscrew) willow tree, taken from below from a strange, diagonal angle, showing a dense network of extremely curly smaller branches

Curly Willow (Corkscrew Willow) Tree, Oberlin College

A dense tangle of red branches with numerous clusters of light yellow oval-shaped leaves sprouting from them

Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) Bush Leafing Out in Spring

A pond almost completely overgrown with water hyacinths, showing some purplish-blue blossoms, and the background and water reflection showing an ugly building in the same architecture of the World Trade Center

Water Hyacinths in the Oberlin Conservatory Pond

A large windmill palm tree growing outside a modern brick building, just taller than the 1-story building, with lush foliage

Cold-Hardy Palm Tree (Trachycarpus fortunei) at UMCES, Solomons, MD

A southern magnolia seedling, with large, shiny, light green leaves, in a bed of ivy with dark green leaves

Southern Magnolia Seedling, Horn Point, Maryland

Photo of black medic, a small, clover-like plant with three leaves, showing a few small clusters of tiny yellow flowers

Black Medic - Medicago lupulina