Plants That Start With V

17 plants Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 17 plants that start with V, 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.

V has 17 plants and a surprising number of soft textures. Velvet appears again and again: velvet bean, velvet grass, velvet plant and velvet-leaf. Violet and viola lead the flowering plants, and vanilla is a climbing orchid whose pods give its famous flavor.

Vegetable names also stand out. Vegetable marrow is a squash, and vegetable sponge is the loofah climber. Vetch is a legume grown for animal feed, and the valley oak is a tall California tree. The vine cactus is a fun rare pick for quiz rounds.

Plants starting with V: 17
Best known: violet, vine
Longest name: vegetable marrow

Best-known plants that start with V

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

violet
vine
viola
vegetable marrow
vanilla
vetch

All plants that start with V

#	Name	What it is
1	valley oak	tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns
2	vanilla	climbing orchid whose pods give vanilla flavoring
3	vase vine	scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved...
4	vegetable marrow	any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
5	vegetable oyster	Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root
6	vegetable sponge	the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit
7	velvet bean	the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods
8	velvet flower	young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
9	velvet grass	tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem; naturalized in United States and used for forage
10	velvet plant	Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
11	velvet-leaf	tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber
12	vetch	climbing legume grown for animal feed and soil
13	vine	a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
14	vine cactus	desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season...
15	vine maple	small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets
16	viola	any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
17	violet	any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

Short plants with V

vine
viola
vetch

Questions people ask

How many plants start with V?

This list has 17 plants starting with V, from well-known ones like violet, vine, viola to rarer kinds.

What plants start with V?

Well-known examples are violet, vine, viola, vegetable marrow, vanilla, vetch.

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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