Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 25 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Wallaby Grass

Austrodanthonia caespitosa

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Water-loving grasses

Various species (e.g., Spartina, Phragmites, Typha, Carex)

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Japanese Sweet Flag / Dwarf Japanese Sweetflag

Acorus gramineus

Water-loving Sedges

Carex spp. (aquatic and wetland species)

Water Sedge

Carex aquatilis

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Weeping Brown Sedge

Carex flagellifera

Weeping Grass

Microlaena stipoides

Western wheatgrass

Pascopyrum smithii

Westerwolds Ryegrass

Lolium multiflorum var. westerwoldicum

Wetland Grasses

Various species (e.g., Phragmites australis, Typha latifolia, Spartina alterniflora)

Wet-soil Sedges

Carex species (various)

White Carpet

Dymondia margaretae

White Clover

Trifolium repens

White Dutch Clover

Trifolium repens

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Widgeon Grass

Ruppia maritima

Widgeongrass

Ruppia maritima

Wigeon Grass

Ruppia maritima

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Wild Rye

Elymus canadensis

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Wildrye

Elymus species

Winter Cover Crops

Various species (Secale cereale, Vicia villosa, Trifolium repens, others)

Winter-flowering Grasses

Various genera (Festuca, Poa, Lolium, Miscanthus, Panicum)

Wool Grass

Scirpus cyperinus

Woolgrass

Scirpus cyperinus

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Woolly sedge

Carex lanuginosa

Wool Sedge

Carex lanuginosa

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