Plants That Start With T

38 plants Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 38 plants that start with T, 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.

T gives 38 plants, many of them central to cooking. Tea, tomato, thyme and tarragon are well known, and turmeric and tamarind bring tropical flavors. Taro is grown for its edible root, and turnip is a familiar garden crop.

Teak is a famous timber tree, and the tumbleweed is a prickly bushy plant that rolls across dry plains. Some names here sound like objects: the toothbrush tree, telegraph plant and tortoise plant. The toad lily adds an animal name that young readers like to spot.

Plants starting with T: 38
Best known: tree, tea
Longest name: telegraph plant

Best-known plants that start with T

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

tree
tea
tomato
tea rose
thyme
tangerine
taro
turmeric
teak
turnip
tamarind
tumbleweed
tarragon
trumpet vine
tree fern

All plants that start with T

#	Name	What it is
1	tamarind	long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding...
2	tangerine	a variety of mandarin orange
3	tara vine	climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible...
4	taro	herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental...
5	tarragon	aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia
6	tea	a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves
7	tea rose	any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers
8	teak	tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
9	telegraph plant	erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence...
10	thorn apple	any of several plants of the genus Datura
11	thrift	any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
12	thyme	any of various mints of the genus Thymus
13	ti	shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing
14	toad lily	a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers
15	toe toe	tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads
16	tomato	native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
17	tomato plant	native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
18	tongue fern	east Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus
19	toothbrush tree	glabrous or pubescent evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Salvadora
20	tortoise plant	South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
21	tower mustard	European cress having stiff erect stems; sometimes placed in genus Turritis
22	tree	a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown
23	tree cotton	small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States
24	tree fern	any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds
25	tree heath	evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots...
26	tree poppy	evergreen shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico often cultivated for its fragrant golden yellow flowers
27	tree tomato	South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat...
28	trumpet flower	woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
29	trumpet tree	tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
30	trumpet vine	evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
31	trumpet weed	North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple
32	tumble grass	North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
33	tumbleweed	prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
34	tung	Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
35	tupelo	any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America
36	turkey oak	large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and...
37	turmeric	widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome
38	turnip	widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root

Short plants with T

tree
tea
thyme
taro
teak
ti
tung

Questions people ask

How many plants start with T?

This list has 38 plants starting with T, from well-known ones like tree, tea, tomato to rarer kinds.

What plants start with T?

Well-known examples are tree, tea, tomato, tea rose, thyme, tangerine, taro, turmeric.

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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