Plants That Start With F

57 plants Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 57 plants that start with F, 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.

F gives 57 plants, with ferns and firs leading off. Flax, fennel and fuchsia are other familiar names, and the fiddle-leaf fig is a popular houseplant with violin-shaped leaves.

Three word families make this page useful for sorting. Field names include field corn, field mint and field maple. Flame names include flame tree, flame bush and flame pea. Corn also comes in several types, such as flint corn and flour corn. For a rare pick, fat hen is a weedy plant with a name that always gets a laugh.

Plants starting with F: 57
Best known: fir, fern
Longest name: false bittersweet

Best-known plants that start with F

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

fir
fern
flax
fennel
fan palm
fuchsia
fig tree
fountain grass
flowering cherry
fir tree
fiddle-leaf fig

All plants that start with F

#	Name	What it is
1	false bittersweet	twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
2	false heather	North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
3	false indigo	an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
4	false rue	slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers
5	false saffron	thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil
6	fan fern	large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
7	fan palm	palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
8	fat hen	European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
9	feather palm	palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
10	felt fern	east Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus
11	fennel	any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems
12	fern	any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward
13	fever tree	ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and...
14	fiddle-leaf fig	houseplant fig with large violin-shaped leaves
15	field balm	low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain; naturalized in United States
16	field bean	Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodder
17	field corn	corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
18	field maple	shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge
19	field mint	European mint naturalized in United States
20	field mustard	weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields
21	field pea	variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage
22	fiesta flower	straggling California annual herb with deep purple or violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Nemophila
23	fig	Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
24	fig tree	any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus
25	film fern	any fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leaves
26	finger grass	any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils
27	fir	any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas
28	fir tree	any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas
29	fire bush	evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant
30	fire thorn	any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red...
31	five-finger	any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers
32	five-spot	California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal
33	flamboyant	showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar
34	flame bush	Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers
35	flame flower	a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers
36	flame pea	any of several small shrubs or twining vines having entire or lobed leaves and racemes of yellow to orange-red flowers
37	flame tree	tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery
38	flat pea	European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink; sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure
39	flax	plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem
40	flint corn	corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
41	floating fern	pantropical aquatic fern
42	flooded gum	any of several Australian gum trees growing on moist or alluvial soil
43	flour corn	corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch
44	flowering almond	deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers
45	flowering ash	shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant white flowers
46	flowering cherry	any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms
47	flowering crab	small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms
48	flowering fern	Australasian fern with clusters of sporangia on stems of fertile fronds
49	flowering hazel	any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the...
50	flowering stone	any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble...
51	fountain grass	tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia
52	fox grape	native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes
53	fragile fern	delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems
54	fringe bush	small bushy tree of southeastern United States having profuse clusters of white flowers
55	fringe tree	any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus
56	fuchsia	any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers
57	fuji cherry	shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms

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This list has 57 plants starting with F, from well-known ones like fir, fern, flax to rarer kinds.

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Well-known examples are fir, fern, flax, fennel, fan palm, fuchsia, fig tree, fountain grass.

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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