# List of dicotyledons of Great Britain and Ireland

This page covers a group of dicotyledon families (Lauraceae to Salicaceae). For the background to this list see parent article List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland.
Status key: * indicates an introduced species and e indicates an extinct species.
This division of the eudicots is shown in the following cladogram:

## Order Ceratophyllales
### Family Ceratophyllaceae (coontails, hornworts)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Rigid hornwort | Ceratophyllum demersum | |
| Soft hornwort | Ceratophyllum submersum | |

## Order Ranunculales
### Family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Marsh-marigold | Caltha palustris | |
| Globeflower | Trollius europaeus | |
| Stinking hellebore | Helleborus foetidus | |
| Green hellebore | Helleborus viridis | |
| Lenten-rose | Helleborus orientalis | * |
| Winter aconite | Eranthis hyemalis | * |
| Love-in-a-mist | Nigella damascena | * |
| Monk's-hood | Aconitum napellus | |
| Wolf's-bane | Aconitum lycoctonum | * |
| Larkspur | Consolida ajacis | * |
| Baneberry | Actaea spicata | |
| Wood anemone | Anemone nemorosa | |
| Blue anemone | Anemone apennina | * |
| Yellow anemone | Anemone ranunculoides | * |
| Liverleaf | Anemone hepatica | * |
| Pasqueflower | Pulsatilla vulgaris | |
| Traveller's joy | Clematis vitalba | |
| Virgin's-bower | Clematis flammula | * |
| Orange-peel clematis | Clematis tangutica | * |
| Himalayan clematis | Clematis montana | * |
| Purple clematis | Clematis viticella | * |
| Meadow buttercup | Ranunculus acris | |
| Creeping buttercup | Ranunculus repens | |
| Bulbous buttercup | Ranunculus bulbosus | |
| Hairy buttercup | Ranunculus sardous | |
| St Martin's buttercup | Ranunculus marginatus | * |
| Rough-fruited buttercup | Ranunculus muricatus | * |
| Small-flowered buttercup | Ranunculus parviflorus | |
| Corn buttercup | Ranunculus arvensis | |
| Jersey buttercup | Ranunculus paludosus | |
| Goldilocks buttercup | Ranunculus auricomus | |
| Celery-leaved buttercup | Ranunculus sceleratus | |
| Greater spearwort | Ranunculus lingua | |
| Lesser spearwort | Ranunculus flammula | |
| Creeping spearwort | Ranunculus reptans | |
| Adder's-tongue spearwort | Ranunculus ophioglossifolius | |
| Aconite-leaved buttercup | Ranunculus aconitifolius | * |
| Lesser celandine | Ranunculus ficaria | |
| Ivy-leaved crowfoot | Ranunculus hederaceus | |
| Round-leaved crowfoot | Ranunculus omiophyllus | |
| Three-lobed crowfoot | Ranunculus tripartitus | |
| Brackish water-crowfoot | Ranunculus baudotii | |
| Thread-leaved water-crowfoot | Ranunculus trichophyllus | |
| Common water-crowfoot | Ranunculus aquatilis | |
| Pond water-crowfoot | Ranunculus peltatus | |
| Stream water-crowfoot | Ranunculus penicillatus | |
| River water-crowfoot | Ranunculus fluitans | |
| Fan-leaved water-crowfoot | Ranunculus circinatus | |
| Pheasant's-eye | Adonis annua | * |
| Mousetail | Myosurus minimus | |
| Columbine | Aquilegia vulgaris | |
| Pyrenean columbine | Aquilegia pyrenaica | * |
| French meadow-rue | Thalictrum aquilegiifolium | * |
| Chinese meadow-rue | Thalictrum delavayi | * |
| Common meadow-rue | Thalictrum flavum | |
| Lesser meadow-rue | Thalictrum minus | |
| Alpine meadow-rue | Thalictrum alpinum | |

## Order Gunnerales
### Family Gunneraceae

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Giant-rhubarb | Gunnera tinctoria | * |

## Basal angiosperms
### Order Nymphaeales
#### Family Nymphaeaceae (waterlilies)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| White water-lily | Nymphaea alba | |
| Yellow water-lily | Nuphar lutea | |
| Least water-lily | Nuphar pumila | |
| Spatter-dock | Nuphar advena | * |

## Magnoliids
### Order Laurales
#### Family Lauraceae (laurel family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Bay laurel | Laurus nobilis | * |

### Order Piperales
#### Family Aristolochiaceae (birthwort family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Asarabacca | Asarum europaeum | * |
| Birthwort | Aristolochia clematitis | * |
| Smearwort | Aristolochia rotunda | * |

## Superasterids
### Order Caryophyllales
#### Family Aizoaceae (ice plants, carpet weeds)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Indian pokeweed | Phytolacca acinosa | * |
| Heart-leaf ice-plant | Aptenia cordifolia | * |
| Shrubby dewplant | Ruschia caroli | * |
| Sickle-leaved dewplant | Lampranthus falciformis | * |
| Rosy dewplant | Lampranthus multiradiatus (syn. L. roseus) | * |
| Deltoid-leaved dewplant | Oscularia deltoides | * |
| Purple dewplant | Disphyma crassifolium | * |
| Pale dewplant | Drosanthemum floribundum | * |
| Lesser sea-fig | Erepsia heteropetala | * |
| Sally-my-handsome | Carpobrotus acinaciformis | * |
| Hottentot-fig | Carpobrotus edulis | * |
| Angular sea-fig | Carpobrotus glaucescens | * |

### Order Santalales
#### Family Santalaceae (sandalwoods)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Mistletoe | Viscum album | |

### Asterids
#### Order Cornales
##### Family Hydrangeaceae (hydrangea family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Mock-orange | Philadelphus coronarius | * |

#### Order Escalloniales
##### Family Escalloniaceae (Escallonia family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Escallonia | Escallonia macrantha | * |

#### Order Ericales
##### Family Balsaminaceae (balsam family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Touch-me-not balsam | Impatiens noli-tangere | |
| Orange balsam | Impatiens capensis | * |
| Small balsam | Impatiens parviflora | * |
| Himalayan balsam | Impatiens glandulifera | * |

#### Campanulids
##### Order Asterales
###### Family Menyanthaceae

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Bogbean | Menyanthes trifoliata | |
| Fringed water-lily | Nymphoides peltata | |

###### Family Asteraceae (aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family)
##### Order Apiales
###### Family Pittosporaceae

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Karo | Pittosporum crassifolium | * |
| Kohuhu | Pittosporum tenuifolium | * |

###### Family Araliaceae (ginseng family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Persian ivy | Hedera colchica | * |
| Ivy | Hedera helix | |
| Chinese angelica-tree | Aralia chinensis | * |
| Japanese angelica-tree | Aralia elata | * |
| American-spikenard | Aralia racemosa | * |
| Marsh pennywort | Hydrocotyle vulgaris | |
| Hairy pennywort | Hydrocotyle moschata | * |
| New Zealand pennywort | Hydrocotyle novae-zeelandiae | * |

###### Family Apiaceae (celery, carrot or parsley family; umbellifers)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Sanicle | Sanicula europaea | |
| Astrantia | Astrantia major | * |
| Tall eryngo | Eryngium giganteum | * |
| Blue eryngo | Eryngium planum | * |
| Sea-holly | Eryngium maritimum | |
| Field eryngo | Eryngium campestre | |
| Hairy chervil | Chaerophyllum hirsutum | * |
| Golden chervil | Chaerophyllum aureum | * |
| Rough chervil | Chaerophyllum temulum | |
| Cow parsley | Anthriscus sylvestris | |
| Bur chervil | Anthriscus caucalis | |
| Shepherd's-needle | Scandix pecten-veneris | |
| Sweet cicely | Myrrhis odorata | * |
| Coriander | Coriandrum sativum | * |
| Alexanders | Smyrnium olusatrum | * |
| Perfoliate alexanders | Smyrnium perfoliatum | * |
| Great pignut | Bunium bulbocastanum | |
| Pignut | Conopodium majus | |
| Greater burnet-saxifrage | Pimpinella major | |
| Burnet-saxifrage | Pimpinella saxifraga | |
| Ground-elder | Aegopodium podagraria | * |
| Greater water-parsnip | Sium latifolium | |
| Lesser water-parsnip | Berula erecta | |
| Rock samphire | Crithmum maritimum | |
| Moon carrot | Seseli libanotis | |
| Tubular water-dropwort | Oenanthe fistulosa | |
| Narrow-leaved water-dropwort | Oenanthe silaifolia | |
| Corky-fruited water-dropwort | Oenanthe pimpinelloides | |
| Parsley water-dropwort | Oenanthe lachenalii | |
| Hemlock water-dropwort | Oenanthe crocata | |
| River water-dropwort | Oenanthe fluviatilis | |
| Fine-leaved water-dropwort | Oenanthe aquatica | |
| Fool's parsley | Aethusa cynapium | |
| Fennel | Foeniculum vulgare | * |
| Pepper-saxifrage | Silaum silaus | |
| Spignel | Meum athamanticum | |
| Bladderseed | Physospermum cornubiense | |
| Hemlock | Conium maculatum | |
| Shrubby hare's-ear | Bupleurum fruticosum | * |
| Sickle-leaved hare's-ear | Bupleurum falcatum | |
| Slender hare's-ear | Bupleurum tenuissimum | |
| Small hare's-ear | Bupleurum baldense | |
| False thorow-wax | Bupleurum subovatum | * |
| Honewort | Trinia glauca | |
| Wild celery | Apium graveolens | |
| Fool's water-cress | Apium nodiflorum | |
| Creeping marshwort | Apium repens | |
| Lesser marshwort | Apium inundatum | |
| Garden parsley | Petroselinum crispum | * |
| Corn parsley | Petroselinum segetum | |
| Stone parsley | Sison amomum | |
| Cowbane | Cicuta virosa | |
| Bullwort | Ammi majus | * |
| Longleaf | Falcaria vulgaris | * |
| Caraway | Carum carvi | * |
| Whorled caraway | Carum verticillatum | |
| Cambridge milk-parsley | Selinum carvifolia | |
| Scots lovage | Ligusticum scoticum | |
| Wild angelica | Angelica sylvestris | |
| Garden angelica | Angelica archangelica | * |
| Lovage | Levisticum officinale | * |
| Hog's fennel | Peucedanum officinale | |
| Milk-parsley | Peucedanum palustre | |
| Masterwort | Peucedanum ostruthium | * |
| Wild parsnip | Pastinaca sativa | |
| Hogweed | Heracleum sphondylium | |
| Giant hogweed | Heracleum mantegazzianum | * |
| Hartwort | Tordylium maximum | * |
| Upright hedge-parsley | Torilis japonica | |
| Spreading hedge-parsley | Torilis arvensis | |
| Knotted hedge-parsley | Torilis nodosa | |
| Wild carrot | Daucus carota | |

###### Family Polemoniaceae (Jacob's-ladder or phlox family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Jacob's-ladder | Polemonium caeruleum | |

##### Order Aquifoliales
###### Family Aquifoliaceae (holly)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Holly | Ilex aquifolium | |

##### Order Dipsacales
###### Family Adoxaceae (moschatel family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Red-berried elder | Sambucus racemosa | * |
| Elder | Sambucus nigra | |
| American elder | Sambucus canadensis | * |
| Dwarf elder | Sambucus ebulus | |
| Guelder-rose | Viburnum opulus | |
| Wayfaring-tree | Viburnum lantana | |
| Laurustinus | Viburnum tinus | * |
| Wrinkled viburnum | Viburnum rhytidophyllum | * |
| Snowberry | Symphoricarpos albus | * |
| Twinflower | Linnaea borealis | |
| Himalayan honeysuckle | Leycesteria formosa | * |
| Box-leaved honeysuckle | Lonicera pileata | * |
| Wilson's honeysuckle | Lonicera nitida | * |
| Californian honeysuckle | Lonicera involucrata | * |
| Fly honeysuckle | Lonicera xylosteum | |
| Henry's honeysuckle | Lonicera henryi | * |
| Japanese honeysuckle | Lonicera japonica | * |
| Honeysuckle | Lonicera periclymenum | |
| Perfoliate honeysuckle | Lonicera caprifolium | * |
| Moschatel | Adoxa moschatellina | |

###### Family Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle family)

| English name | Scientific name | Status |
| Common cornsalad | Valerianella locusta | |
| Keeled-fruited cornsalad | Valerianella carinata | |
| Broad-fruited cornsalad | Valerianella rimosa | |
| Narrow-fruited cornsalad | Valerianella dentata | |
| Hairy-fruited cornsalad | Valerianella eriocarpa | * |
| Common valerian | Valeriana officinalis | |
| Pyrenean valerian | Valeriana pyrenaica | * |
| Marsh valerian | Valeriana dioica | |
| Red valerian | Centranthus ruber | * |
| Annual valerian | Centranthus calcitrapae | * |
| Wild teasel | Dipsacus fullonum | |
| Fuller's teasel | Dipsacus sativus | * |
| Small teasel | Dipsacus pilosus | |
| Yellow-flowered teasel | Dipsacus strigosus | * |
| Giant scabious | Cephalaria gigantea | * |
| Field scabious | Knautia arvensis | |
| Devil's-bit scabious | Succisa pratensis | |
| Small scabious | Scabiosa columbaria | |
| Sweet scabious | Scabiosa atropurpurea | * |