Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 17 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

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Akiʻaki

Sporobolus virginicus

Barnyard Millet

Echinochloa frumentacea

Golden Bamboo (Gravesii)

Bambusa vulgaris 'Gravesii'

Grasses

Poaceae (family)

Fodder Grasses (Brachiaria and Panicum species)

Brachiaria spp. and Panicum spp.

Honohono grass

Commelina diffusa

Moss

Bryophyta (Division)

Native Hawaiian Beach Grass

Elymus mollis (formerly Leymus mollis)

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Tropical Forage Species

Various species (e.g., Panicum maximum, Brachiaria spp., Leucaena leucocephala)

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Tropical Grasses for Mixed Pasture

Various species (Brachiaria, Panicum, Setaria, Cynodon, Paspalum spp.)

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Tropical Pasture Grasses

Various species (Brachiaria, Panicum, Digitaria, Setaria, Chloris spp.)

Guinea grass

Panicum maximum

Rhodes Grass

Chloris gayana

Sugar Cane

Saccharum officinarum

Tropical Grasses

Various species (Zoysia, Paspalum, Cynodon, Pennisetum, etc.)

Tropical Moss Plants

Bryophyta (various species)

Wheatgrass

Triticum aestivum

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