Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 11 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)

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Map Lichen

Rhizocarpon geographicum

Marchantia liverwort

Marchantia polymorpha

Cattails and Rushes

Typha spp. (Cattails), Juncus spp. (Rushes)

Marigold Bonanza

Tagetes patula 'Bonanza'

Mixed Grass Species

Poaceae (various genera and species)

Moss on Tree Bark

Various species (e.g., Hypnum cupressiforme, Orthotrichum species, Dicranum scoparium)

Mountain Alder

Alnus incana subsp. tenuifolia

Mountain Birch

Betula pubescens subsp. tortuosa

Mountain Lichen

Umbilicaria species (commonly U. pustulata, U. phaeaea, or other alpine Umbilicaria spp.)

Mounted Mosses and Lichens

Bryophyta (mosses) and Ascomycota/Basidiomycota (lichens)

Mulch-producing plants

Various species

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