Plants That Start With P

97 plants Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 97 plants that start with P, 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.

P is a big plant letter, with 97 entries packed with food. Potato, pumpkin, pineapple, peach, pear and plum are easy wins, along with nuts like peanut, pecan and pistachio. Parsley and peppermint add herbs.

Houseplants make a strong showing too: pothos, philodendron and poinsettia. Children love the pitcher plant, which traps insects. Popcorn and paprika show how kitchen words often name the plant itself. For harder answers, try painted tongue or the palmyra palm.

Plants starting with P: 97
Best known: palm, potato
Longest name: princess feather

Best-known plants that start with P

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

palm
potato
pine
peanut
pumpkin
peach
pineapple
plum
pea
pear
parsley
peppermint
poplar
pecan
pomegranate
primrose
papaya
pansy
pistachio
palm tree
pine tree
persimmon
parsnip
pitcher plant
philodendron
poinsettia
pothos

All plants that start with P

#	Name	What it is
1	painted leaf	tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small...
2	painted tongue	Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat
3	pak choi	Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves
4	pale violet	leafy-stemmed violet of eastern North America having large white or creamy flowers faintly marked with purple
5	palm	any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
6	palm tree	any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
7	palmetto	any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
8	palmyra	tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and...
9	palo verde	densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark
10	panic grass	any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder
11	pansy	large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
12	papaya	tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
13	paper birch	small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
14	paper flower	Brazilian vine that tends to flower continuously
15	paprika	plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
16	paradise flower	tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
17	paradise tree	medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale...
18	parsley	annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves
19	parsnip	a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root
20	partridge pea	tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
21	patchouli	small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes
22	pea	a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
23	pea plant	a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
24	pea tree	any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod
25	peach	cultivated in temperate regions
26	peach tree	cultivated in temperate regions
27	peacock flower	showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar
28	peanut	widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions
29	peanut vine	widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions
30	pear	Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
31	pear hawthorn	erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
32	pear tree	Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
33	peat moss	any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
34	pecan	tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
35	pepper	any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
36	pepper bush	shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers
37	pepper grass	annual herb used as salad green and garnish
38	pepper root	North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
39	pepper tree	small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of...
40	pepper vine	any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper
41	peppermint	herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring
42	perennial pea	perennial climber of central and southern Europe having purple or pink or white flowers; naturalized in North America
43	persimmon	any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
44	philodendron	popular tropical houseplant with heart-shaped leaves
45	pigeon pea	tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
46	pin cherry	small shrubby North American wild cherry with small bright red acid fruit
47	pin oak	fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having...
48	pine	a coniferous tree
49	pine fern	fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown hairs
50	pine tree	a coniferous tree
51	pineapple	a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves
52	pineapple plant	a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves
53	pineapple weed	annual aromatic weed of Pacific coastal areas (United States and northeastern Asia) having bristle-pointed leaves and...
54	pink shower	tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or rose-colored flowers; used as an ornamental
55	pipe vine	hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe
56	pistachio	small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts
57	pitch pine	large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs
58	pitcher plant	any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales
59	pitcher sage	California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white flowers
60	plane tree	any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and...
61	plantain	any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago
62	plum	any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
63	plum tomato	an Italian variety of cherry tomato that is shaped like a plum
64	plum tree	any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
65	poinsettia	shrub with bright red leaves popular in winter
66	pole bean	a climbing bean plant that will climb a wall or tree or trellis
67	pomegranate	shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
68	pond apple	small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit; used chiefly as grafting stock
69	pond pine	large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States
70	ponderosa	common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5...
71	popcorn	corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
72	poplar	any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins
73	post oak	small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough...
74	potato	annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers
75	potato bean	a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
76	potato fern	large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people
77	potato tree	hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers; not a true potato
78	potato vine	copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue
79	pothos	easy trailing houseplant with heart-shaped leaves
80	poverty grass	small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
81	prairie crab	wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers
82	prairie dock	stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers
83	prairie grass	handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
84	prairie sage	perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
85	prairie smoke	North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits
86	prairie willow	slender shrubby willow of dry areas of North America
87	primrose	any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in...
88	princess feather	annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers
89	pumpkin	a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds
90	pumpkin ash	timber tree of central and southeastern United States having hairy branchlets and a swollen trunk base
91	pumpkin vine	a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds
92	purple beech	variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
93	purple clover	erect to decumbent short-lived perennial having red-purple to pink flowers; the most commonly grown forage clover
94	purple heather	semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States
95	purple pea	any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich...
96	purple sage	silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers
97	purple willow	Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin

Short plants with P

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pine
peach
plum
pea
pear
pecan
pansy

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This list has 97 plants starting with P, from well-known ones like palm, potato, pine to rarer kinds.

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Well-known examples are palm, potato, pine, peanut, pumpkin, peach, pineapple, plum.

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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