Plants That Start With D

39 plants Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 39 plants that start with D, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

D holds 39 plants, with a few clear stars. Dandelion and dill are easy for kids, and the date palm, durian and dogwood are well known trees. The douglas fir and the dawn redwood are tall conifers often seen in parks.

Prefixes repeat a lot here. Dwarf names include dwarf banana, dwarf maple and dwarf oak. Dog names cover dog rose, dog violet and dog laurel, while desert plants include desert rose and desert willow. Dumb cane is an odd houseplant name that tends to make readers smile.

Plants starting with D: 39
Best known: daphne, dill
Longest name: dwarf blueberry

Best-known plants that start with D

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

daphne
dill
dandelion
desert rose
date palm
durian
dogwood
day lily
dusty miller
douglas fir
dawn redwood

All plants that start with D

#	Name	What it is
1	dagger fern	North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
2	daisy bush	any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes...
3	dandelion	any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers...
4	daphne	any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers
5	darling pea	either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep
6	date palm	tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit
7	date plum	an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes
8	dawn redwood	large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones
9	day lily	any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers
10	deer fern	fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse
11	deer grass	any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America
12	dent corn	corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity
13	desert holly	handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used...
14	desert olive	spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers...
15	desert pea	sprawling shrubby perennial noted for its scarlet black-marked flowers; widely distributed in dry parts of Australia
16	desert rose	South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall
17	desert willow	evergreen shrubby tree resembling a willow of dry regions of southwestern North America having showy purplish flowers...
18	dill	aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
19	ditch fern	large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds
20	ditch reed	tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles
21	dock	any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
22	dog grass	European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
23	dog laurel	fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white...
24	dog mercury	European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers
25	dog rose	prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe
26	dog violet	Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet
27	dogwood	a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers
28	douglas fir	tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles
29	dumb cane	an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves
30	durian	tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
31	dusty miller	a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust
32	dutch clover	creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves
33	dwarf banana	low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit
34	dwarf blueberry	low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by...
35	dwarf chestnut	shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
36	dwarf elder	bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
37	dwarf elm	fast-growing shrubby Asian tree naturalized in United States for shelter or ornament
38	dwarf maple	small maple of northwestern North America
39	dwarf oak	deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense...

Short plants with D

dill
dock

Questions people ask

How many plants start with D?

This list has 39 plants starting with D, from well-known ones like daphne, dill, dandelion to rarer kinds.

What plants start with D?

Well-known examples are daphne, dill, dandelion, desert rose, date palm, durian, dogwood, day lily.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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