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Flora of Rwanda: Utilities: List of species vernacular names

Click on a letter below to take you to the first species whose name begins with that letter.

A
African allophylus (English)
African almond (English)
African beech (English)
African bittercress (English)
African buttercup (English)
African chilli (English)
African dogwood (English)
African false currant (English)
African foxtail (English)
African heart-vine (English)
African holly (English)
African indigo (English)
African olive (English)
African paddle-pod (English)
African Pepper (English)
African protea (English)
African purslane (English)
Afrormosia (English)
Air potato (English)
Air yam (English)
Ambatch (English)
American cherry (English)
American cudweed (English)
American sicklepod (English)
Annual meadow grass (English)
Annual wild poinsettia (English)
Antelope grass (English)
Apple-of-Peru (English)
Argentine fleabane (English)
Arrowroot (English)
Artillery plant (English)
Australian silky oak (English) (Cultivated species)
Avery fern (English)
Avocado pear (English)

B
Bachelor's button (English)
Balloon cotton bush (English)
Balloon vine (English)
Balsawood tree (English)
Banana orchid (English)
Bark bush (English)
Basket grass (English)
Bastard stinkwood (English)
Batoka plum (English)
Be-still tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Bead-bean (English)
Beauty-of-the-night (English)
Bells of St Mary's (English)
Bengal trumpet vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Bicoloured bushwillow (English)
Big-leaf (English)
Bird's eye (English)
Bitter albizia (English)
Bitter almond (English)
Bitter grape (English)
Bitter yam (English)
Black bitterberry (English)
Black cherry (English)
Black nightshade (English)
Black Sudan grass (English)
Black wattle (English)
Black-eyed susan (English)
Black-jack (English)
Blinks (English)
Blood lily (English)
Bloodberry (English)
Blue bitter-berry (English)
Blue buffalo grass (English)
Blue carpet (English)
Blue cat's whiskers (English)
Blue disa (English)
Blue milkweed (English)
Blue trumpet vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Blueweed (E) (English)
Boat lily (English) (Cultivated species)
Bottle gourd (English)
Bottle-brush grass (English)
Bottlebrush (English)
Bougainvillea (English) (Cultivated species)
Bracken (English)
Brazilian clover (English)
Brick-red ochna (English)
Brittlewood (English)
Broad-leaved beechwood (English)
Broad-leaved bristle-grass (English)
Broad-leaved Croton (English)
Broad-leaved pondweed (English)
Broad-leaved turpentine grass (English)
Broadleaf sorrel (English)
Brook pimpernel (English)
Broom-cluster fig (English)
Brown-berry fluted-milkwood (English)
Buffalo grass (English)
Buffalo-thorn (English)
Buffelgrass (English)
Bug catcher (English)
Bug tree (English)
Bugweed (English)
Bulrush (English)
Bur bristle grass (English)
Burning bush (English)
Bush asparagus (English)
Bush guarri (English)
Bush yam (English)
Bushman's grape (English)
Bushveld grape (English)
Bushy bulbine (English)
Butter-berry (English)
Butterfly orchid tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Butternut pumpkin (English) (Cultivated species)
Butternut squash (English) (Cultivated species)

C
Calabash (English)
Calceolaria cassia (English) (Cultivated species)
Calthrop (English)
Camel-foot (English)
Canary pea (English)
Cannabis (English)
Cape ash (English)
Cape beech (English)
Cape fig (English)
Cape gooseberry (English)
Cape holly (English)
Cape leadwort (English) (Cultivated species)
Cape myrtle (English)
Cape smilax (English)
Cardinal guard (English) (Cultivated species)
Carpolobia (English)
Carrot seed grass (English)
Cat-thorn (English)
Cats tail grass (English)
Catstail dropseed (English)
Catstail grass (English)
Caustic vine (English)
Chandelier plant (English)
Cheeky yam (English)
Cheesewood (English)
Cherry guava (English)
Cherry pie (English)
Chickweed (English)
Chickweed (English)
Chinese lantern (English)
Chinese mustard (English)
Chinese silk plant (English) (Cultivated species)
Chinese violet (English)
Chishambo (English)
Christmas berry (English)
Christmas flower (English)
Christmas flower (English) (Cultivated species)
Christmas lima bean (English)
Climbing fig (English) (Cultivated species)
Climbing nettle (English)
Climbing orange (English)
Climbing turkey-berry (English)
Clinging aneilema (English)
Clock vine (English) (Cultivated species)
Cluster-head protea (English)
Cockspur orange (English)
Codlins-and-cream (English)
Coffee senna (English)
Common allamanda (English) (Cultivated species)
Common broomrape (English)
Common celtis (English)
Common cluster fig (English)
Common crowfoot (English)
Common crown-berry (English)
Common fireball (English)
Common forest ochna (English)
Common purslane (English)
Common reed (English)
Common russet grass (English)
Common signal grass (English)
Common water-plantain (English)
Common wild elder (English)
Common wireweed (English)
Confetti tree (English)
Coontail (English)
Coral creeper (English)
Coral-vine (English)
Corn spurry (English)
Costa Rican nightshade (English)
Cottonwool grass (English)
Couch panicum (English)
Crawcraw vine (English)
Creeping bauhinia (English)
Creeping ludwigia (English)
Creeping starbur (English)
Crown-of-gold tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Crystal-bark (English)
Cudweed (English)
Curry bush (English)

D
Dandelion (English)
Decan hemp (English)
Devil's eyelashes (English)
Devil's thorn (English)
Diamond-leaved euclea (English)
Dogplum (English)
Dogwood (English)
Donkey-berry (English)
Duckweed (English)
Dwarf aspilia (English)
Dwarf morning-glory (English)

E
Eared vernonia (English)
Earth almond (English)
Eastern St Paul's-wort (English)
Edible galingale (English)
Elbow-leaf (English)
Elm (English)

F
Fairy dropseed (English)
False assegai (English)
False cape fig (English)
False daisy (English)
False dogwood (English)
False maidenhair (English)
False marula (English)
False shiny-leaf (English)
False-fig (English)
Feathery love-grass (English)
Fibrous dropseed (English)
Finger millet (English)
Fire bush (English)
Fishbone cassia (English)
Flamboyant (English) (Cultivated species)
Flame lily (English)
Flat-crowned albizia (English)
Floating fig (English)
Floating pennywort (English)
Florida beggar weed (English)
Fluted milkwood (English)
Footpath love grass (English)
Forest bead-string (English)
Forest big-leaf (English)
Forest bitterberry (English)
Forest dracaena (English)
Forest elder (English)
Forest false-currant (English)
Forest fever tree (English)
Forest flame-creeper (English)
Forest jasmine (English)
Forest newtonia (English)
Forest nuxia (English)
Forest peach (English)
Forest sandpaper fig (English)
Forest sandpaper figtree (English)
Forest star (English)
Forest toad-tree (English)
Forest velvet false-currant (English)
Forget-me-not tree (English)
Four o'clock flower (English)
Foxglove orchid (English)
French marigold (English)
Fringe tail (English)
Furry-fruited teclea (English)

G
Gallant soldier (English)
Garden bristle-grass (English)
Garden nasturtium (English)
Giant devil's fig (English)
Giant Maize Witchweed (English)
Giant potato (English)
Giant potato creeper (English)
Giant potato tree (English)
Giant salvia (English)
Giant sensitive plant (English)
Giant spear grass (English)
Giant thatching grass (English)
Giant-leaved fig (English)
Globe amaranth (English)
Glossy flat-bean (English)
Glossy guarri (English)
Goat bitter-apple (English)
Golden bristle-grass (English)
Golden candle orchid (English)
Golden dewdrop (English)
Golden trumpet (English) (Cultivated species)
Governor's plum (English)
Granite garcinia (English)
Granite mangosteen (English)
Grannyvine (English)
Grape ivy (English)
Grape strychnos (English)
Grass aloe (English)
Grassland tree fern (English)
Greater willowherb (English)
Green leaf desmodium (English)
Green pepper (English) (Cultivated species)
Grey-beard grass (English)
Grey-haired acacia (English)
Ground-nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Guava (English)
Guava baby (English)
Guinea grass (English)
Gummy canthium (English)
Gunpowder plant (English)

H
Hairy acalypha (English)
Hairy balls (English)
Hairy caterpillar-pod (English)
Hairy heartleaf (English)
Hairy rock fig (English)
Hairy tare (English)
Hand grenade fruit (English)
Hare's ears (English)
Haroni fig (English)
Heart-leaved Brooms and Brushes (English)
Heart-leaved vine (English)
Helicopter grass (English)
Hemp (English)
Herbst's bloodleaf (English) (Cultivated species)
Hippo grass (English)
Hissing tree (English)
Honey-scented protea (English)
Honeysuckle tree (English)
Horn-of-plenty (English)
Horsewood (English)
Hydrangea (English) (Cultivated species)

I
Indaba tree (English)
India rubber tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Indian cress (English)
Indian mustard (English)
Indian shot (English)
Inkberry (English)

J
Jacket plum (English)
Jimson weed (English)
Jimson weed (English)
Judgement tree (English)
Jumping-seed tree (English)
Jungle rice (English)

K
Kalahari bushwillow (English)
Kassod tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Kenaf (English)
Kenya croton (English)
Kew weed (English)
Khaki burrweed (English)
Khaki bush (English)
Kidneyweed (English)
Kikuyu grass (English)
Koko tree (English)
Kooboo-berry (English)
Kundanyoka knobwood (English)

L
Lablab bean (English)
Lace-leaf (English)
Lantana (English)
Large forest asparagus (English)
Large forest ipomoea (English)
Large jujube (English)
Large plume eragrostis (English)
Large red-heart (English)
Large, or Smooth-fruited lightning-bush (English)
Large-flowered sebaea (English)
Large-fruited sycamore fig (English)
Large-leaved climbing dalbergia (English)
Large-leaved cordia (English)
Large-leaved knobwood (English)
Large-leaved onionwood (English)
Large-leaved saucer-berry (English)
Large-leaved star-chestnut (English)
Large-leaved terminalia (English)
Large-seeded millet grass (English)
Late weed (English)
Lebombo hibiscus (English)
Lemon wood (English)
Lemon Yellow Rosemallow (English)
Leopard orchid (English)
Loofah (English)
Loquat (English) (Cultivated species)
Lowveld bead-string (English)
Lucky bean creeper (English)
Lucky nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Lucky-bean tree (English)

M
Madagascar periwinkle (English)
Maggot killer (English)
Magic guarri (English)
Maidenhair fern (English)
Makoni tea bush (English)
Malabar spinach (English)
Marama bean (English)
Marijuana (English)
Maroon milkweed (English)
Marsh dissotis (English)
Marvel-of-Peru (English)
Mauritius thorn (English)
Mexican Bird of Paradise (English) (Cultivated species)
Mexican clover (English)
Mexican fire plant (English)
Mexican firespike (English) (Cultivated species)
Mexican fleabane (English)
Mexican lupin (English)
Mexican marigold (English)
Mexican poppy (English)
Mexican sunflower (English)
Mexican sunflower (English)
Milk rope (English)
Milkweed (English)
Miniature bells (English)
Mistletoe cactus (English)
Mitzeerie (English)
Mobola plum (English)
Monkey bread (English)
Monkey nut (English) (Cultivated species)
Monkey sugarcane (English)
Mopane orchid (English)
Morning glory-bush (English)
Moses in the cradle (English) (Cultivated species)
Mountain rock fig (English)
Mountain stock-rose (English)
Msasa fern (English)
Mud plantain (English)
Mufindi coffee (English)
Mumvee (English)
Myrianthus (English)

N
Narrow heart love grass (English)
Narrow-plumed dropseed (English)
Natal cotton plant (English)
Natal fig (English)
Natal rhus (English)
Needle bush (English)
Nettle-leaved goosefoot (English)
New Zealand spinach (English) (Cultivated species)
Night cestrum (English) (Cultivated species)
Night-blooming jasmine (English) (Cultivated species)
Nile cabbage (English)
Nile ceropegia (English)
Northern ammocharis (English)
Northern coffee-pear (English)
Northern large-leaved dragon-tree (English)
Northern stinkwood (English)
Nyanga flat-top (English)

O
Oat grass (English)
Octopus cabbage tree (English)
Oldland rattlepod (English)
Orange bird-berry (English)
Orange-milk tree (English)
Orchid tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Ordeal tree (English)
Outeniqua yellowwood (English)
Oyster plant (English) (Cultivated species)

P
Painted Euphorbia (English)
Pan dropseed (English)
Paper thorns (English)
Paperbark acacia (English)
Paperthorn (English)
Papyrus (English)
Paradise flower (English)
Parasol tree (English)
Peach (English) (Cultivated species)
Peacock Flower (English) (Cultivated species)
Peanut (English) (Cultivated species)
Peanut butter cassia (English)
Pearl acacia (English)
Pencil cactus (English)
Persian lilac (English)
Pigeon pea (English)
Pigeonwood (English)
Pigweed (English)
Pineapple-fruit tree (English)
Pinhole grass (English)
Pink bauhinia (English) (Cultivated species)
Pink camel's-foot (English) (Cultivated species)
Pink dombeya (English)
Pink garden sorrel (English)
Pink-leaved blechnum (English)
Pink-vine (English)
Pith-tree (English)
Poison apple (English)
Poison devil-tree (English) (Cultivated species)
Poison gooseberry (English)
Poison-grub commiphora (English)
Poison-grub corkwood (English)
Poison-pod albizia (English)
Porcupine-root (English)
Potato vine (English)
Potato yam (English)
Powder-bark gardenia (English)
Powder-bark monkey-orange (English)
Praying-hands (English)
Prickly acanthus (English)
Prickly poppy (English)
Pride of Barbados (English) (Cultivated species)
Pride of the Cape (English) (Cultivated species)
Prostrate globe-amaranth (English)
Prostrate starbur (English)
Pumpkin (English) (Cultivated species)
Purple morning-glory (English)
Purple nutsedge (English)
Purple-leaved albizia (English)
Purple-wood dalbergia (English)

Q
Queensland silver wattle (English)

R
Rainbow grass (English)
Raisin bush (English)
Raisin-fruit keetia (English)
Ramie (English) (Cultivated species)
Red bauhinia (English) (Cultivated species)
Red bitter apple (English)
Red bitter berry (English)
Red dropseed (English)
Red grass (English)
Red hook-berry (English)
Red ironwood (English)
Red oat grass (English)
Red spike-thorn (English)
Red stinkwood (English)
Red sunflower (English)
Red thorn (English)
Red-hot-poker tree (English)
Red-leaved rock fig (English)
Red-striped cucumber (English)
Redwing (English)
Reed grass (English)
Rescue grass (English)
Rhodes grass (English)
Rice grass (English)
Rigid hornwort (English)
Ritchiea (English)
River dombeya (English)
River guarri (English)
River jasmine (English)
River pumpkin (English)
River tamarind (English)
Rock tannin-bush (English)
Rosy periwinkle (English)
Rough love grass (English)
Rough-barked flat-top (English)
Rough-leaved shepherds tree (English)
Rough-leaved white-stinkwood (English)
Royal fern (English)
Royal poinciana (English) (Cultivated species)
Rubber euphorbia (English)
Rubber hedge plant (English)
Rubber plant (English) (Cultivated species)
Rum cherry (English)
Rusty velvet protea (English)

S
Sand lily (English)
Sand paddle-pod (English)
Sandpaper raisin (English)
Sausage tree (English)
Scrambled egg (English)
Scrambling dutchman's pipe (English)
Shaggy soldier (English)
Shepherd's purse (English)
Shiny leaf (English)
Shoo-fly (English)
Shoo-fly plant (English)
Siamese cassia (English) (Cultivated species)
Siamese senna (English) (Cultivated species)
Sickle bush (English)
Silky-bark (English)
Silver bushwillow (English)
Silver oak (English) (Cultivated species)
Silver spike (English)
Silver spinach (English)
Simple-leaved wild grape (English)
Simple-spined num-num (English)
Sky-berry (English)
Small buffalo grass (English)
Small myrsine (English)
Small-flowered canna (English)
Small-fruited potato bush (English)
Small-fruited teclea (English)
Small-fruited toad-tree (English)
Small-leaved yellow-wood (English)
Smilax (English)
Smooth senna (English)
Smooth-barked flat-crown (English)
Smooth-fruit zanha (English)
Snake lily (English)
Snake-root (English)
Snowberry tree (English)
Soccerball fruit (English)
Sorrel (English)
Sorrel (English)
Sourplum (English)
Soursop (English) (Cultivated species)
Spear grass (English)
Spider-wisp (English)
Spiderweb chloris (English)
Spiky dropseed (English)
Spiky love-grass (English)
Spindle pod (English)
Spiny monkey-orange (English)
Spiny tree fern (English)
Splinter bean (English)
Staddo (English)
Sticky pod (English)
Sticky purple cleome (English)
Sticky purple mousewhiskers (English)
Sticky-leaved rubia (English)
Stinging nettle (English)
Stinging pavonia (English)
Stinking roger (English)
Stipe-fruited strychnos (English)
Strawberry (English) (Cultivated species)
Strawberry guava (English)
Strombosia (English)
Sundew (English)
Sweet pepper (English) (Cultivated species)
Sweet potato (English)
Sweet prickly-pear (English)
Sycomore fig (English)
Syringa (English)
Syringa berry (English)

T
Tall white squill (English)
Tamani berry (English)
Tamarillo (English)
Tamarind (English)
Tangle-flowered wild-medlar (English)
Tanglehead (English)
Tar berry (English)
Tarvine (English)
Tea (English)
Thorn apple (English)
Thorn pear (English)
Thorny elm (English)
Three men in a boat (English) (Cultivated species)
Tickey-creeper (English) (Cultivated species)
Tiny Sweetvetch (English)
Tobacco (English)
Tobacco tree (English)
Tomato (English) (Cultivated species)
Torpedo grass (English)
Transvaal sumach (English)
Tree entada (English)
Tree orchid (English)
Tree tobacco (English)
Tree tomato (English)
Trellis-vine (English)
Triangle tops (English)
Tropical speedwell (English)
Tsombori (English)
Tumbleweed (English)

U
Undershrub big-leaf (English)
Upright starbur (English)
Urnfig (English)

V
Variable bushwillow (English)
Variable combretum (English)
Vegetable sponge (English)
Veld fan (English)
Veld lupin (English)
Veld paspalum (English)
Velvet bean (English)
Velvet bushwillow (English)
Velvet wild medlar (English)
Violet tree (English)
Vumba grass (English)

W
Wandering jew (English)
Wandering jew (English)
Warty donkey-berry (English)
Warty grape (English)
Water chestnut (English)
Water grass (English)
Water hyacinth (English)
Water lettuce (English)
Water melon (English)
Water speedwell (English)
Waterberry (English)
Watercress (English)
Waterlily (English)
Weeping bushwillow (English)
Whipstick loquat (English)
Whipstick tree (English)
White angel's trumpet (English)
White buffalo grass (English)
White candles (English)
White pear (English)
White ribbon bush (English)
White stinkwood (English)
White thorn (English)
White witch-hazel (English)
White-banded ceropegia (English)
Wild banana (English)
Wild crocus (English)
Wild custard-apple (English)
Wild date palm (English)
Wild gardenia (English)
Wild grape (English)
Wild lucerne (English)
Wild olive (English)
Wild pear (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild pepper (English)
Wild petunia (English)
Wild sarsaparilla (English)
Wild Sorghum (English)
Wild squill (English)
Wild stockrose (English)
Wild sunhemp (English)
Wild tobacco (English)
Wild white plumbago (English)
Wild yam (English)
Willow beechwood (English)
Windball (English)
Wing-leaved wooden pear (English)
Winged bersama (English)
Winged bersama (English)
Winter cassia (English)
Winter cherry (English)
Winter-flowering senna (English)
Wire grass (English)
Witchweed (English)
Woodland waterberry (English)
Woodrose (English)
Woolly caper-bush (English)
Woolly senna (English)
Wormseed (English)

Y
Yellow bauhinia (English)
Yellow bristle-grass (English)
Yellow commelina (English)
Yellow fire lily (English)
Yellow fleabane (English)
Yellow justicia (English)
Yellow nut-grass (English)
Yellow nutsedge (English)
Yellow oleander (English) (Cultivated species)
Yellow sorrel (English)
Yellow thatching-grass (English)
Yellow-heads (English)
Yellow-spike thatching grass (English)

Z
Zambezi false-nettle (English)

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