Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
Report on invasive plant species on Niue following Cyclone Heta
Appendix 1.
|
Scientific Name |
Common Names (abridged) |
Family |
Habit |
| Abutilon indicum | English: abutilon, Indian abutilon, Indian mallow | Malvaceae | shrub |
| Abutilon theophrasti | English: abutilon-hemp, butterprint, buttonweed, China-jute, Indian-mallow, Tientsin-jute, velvetleaf, velvetweed | Malvaceae | herb |
| Acacia aulacocarpa | English: brown salwood, brush ironbark wattle, hickory wattle; Other: ākasia (Cook Islands) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia auriculiformis | English: Papuan wattle, auri, earleaf acacia, northern black wattle, ear-pod wattle; Other: ākasia (Cook Islands) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia boliviana | English: Bolivian wattle | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Acacia confusa | English: Formosa koa, Formosa acacia | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia crassicarpa | English: northern wattle, Papua New Guinea red wattle; Other: ākasia (Cook Islands) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia farnesiana | English: Ellington curse, klu, sweet acacia; Other: titima (Cook Islands); kolu (Hawai'i) | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Acacia glauca | English: redwood | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia longifolia | English: Sydney golden wattle, golden wattle, long-leaved wattle, long-leaved acacia, sallow wattle, coast wattle, golden rods | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia mangium | English: mangium, brown salwood, black wattle, hickory wattle; Other: ākasia (Cook Islands) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia mearnsii | English: black wattle; Other: ākasia (Cook Islands) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia melanoxylon | English: Australian blackwood, blackwood acacia | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia nilotica | English: prickly acacia, black thorn, Egyptian thorn, Nile acacia, algaroba, babul, gum arabic tree | Fabaceae | tree |
| Acacia sinuata | English: chikakai, piquant sappan, sappan, soap pod | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Acalypha alopecuroides | English: foxtail copperleaf | Euphorbiaceae | herb |
| Acanthocereus tetragonus | English: barbed-wire cactus, sword-pear, triangle cactus | Cactaceae | succulent |
| Acmella uliginosa | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Adiantum raddianum | English: delta maidenhair fern | Pteridaceae | fern |
| Aeschynomene americana | Fabaceae | herb | |
| Aeschynomene indica | English: budda pea, curly-indigo, hard sola, Indian joint-vetch, kat sola, northern joint-vetch, sensitive jointed vetch, sensitive vetch | Fabaceae | herb |
| Agave americana | English: American aloe, century plant | Agavaceae | succulent |
| Agave sisalana | English: sisal, sisal hemp; Other: malina (Hawai'i) | Agavaceae | succulent |
| Ageratina riparia | English: spreading mistflower, creeping croftonweed, river eupatorium; Other: hamakua pamakani (Hawai‘i) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Ailanthus altissima | English: tree of heaven, varnishtree | Simaroubaceae | tree |
| Ajuga reptans | Lamiaceae | herb | |
| Albizia chinensis | English: Chinese albizia, silktree; Other: ‘arapitia (Cook Islands); tamaligi uliuli, tamaligi ena‘ena (Samoa) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Albizia lebbeck | English: siris-tree, rain tree, East Indian walnut, kokko, woman's-tongue tree, soros-tree, raom tree; Other: ‘arapitia (Cook Islands (Miti‘aro)); 'ohai (Hawai‘i); tamaligi pa’epa’e (Samoa); kasia (Tonga) | Fabaceae | tree |
| Alstonia macrophylla | English: devil-tree | Apocynaceae | tree |
| Alternanthera caracasana | English: mat chaff flower | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Alternanthera philoxeroides | English: alligator weed | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Alternanthera pungens | English: khaki weed | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Alternanthera sessilis | English: joyweed, sessile joyweed; Other: mata kura (Cook Islands (‘Atiu)); fisi‘i‘anoa (Tonga) | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Amaranthus cruentus | English: bush greens, purple amaranth, red amaranth, red shank | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Amaranthus dubius | English: amaranth, spleen amaranth | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Amaranthus hybridus | English: green amaranth, green pigweed, hybrid amaranth, slim amaranth, smooth amaranth, smooth pigweed | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Amaranthus interruptus | English: amaranth | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Amaranthus spinosus | English: edlebur, needle burr, spiny amaranth, thorny pigweed; Other: pakai kuku (Hawai‘i) | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Ammannia auriculata | Lythraceae | herb | |
| Anagallis arvensis | English: bird's-eye, poor-man's weatherglass, red chickweed, scarlet pimpernel, shepherd's-weatherglass | Primulaceae | herb |
| Andropogon gayanus | English: gamba grass, tambuki grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Andropogon glomeratus | English: bush beardgrass, bushy bluestem | Poaceae | grass |
| Andropogon virginicus | English: broomsedge, yellow bluestem, whisky grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Araujia sericifera | English: moth plant, moth catcher, white bladder flower | Ascelepiadaceae | vine |
| Archontophoenix alexandrae | English: Alexandra palm, king palm | Arecaceae | tree (palm) |
| Ardisia crenata | English: hen's eyes, Hilo holly, coral berry, Australian holly, scratchthroat | Myrsinaceae | shrub |
| Ardisia elliptica | English: shoebutton ardisia; Other: venevene tinitō (Cook Islands); ati popa‘a, atiu (French Polynesia); togo vao (Samoa) | Myrsinaceae | shrub |
| Argyreia nervosa | English: elephant creeper, Hawaiian baby woodrose , silver morning glory, woolly morning glory | Convolvulaceae | vine |
| Aristolochia odoratissima | English: duck, swan | Aristolochiaceae | herb |
| Arthrostemma ciliatum | English: arthrostemma, everblooming eavender | Melastomataceae | herb |
| Arundinaria graminea | Poaceae | grass | |
| Arundo donax | English: giant reed, Spanish reed, wild cane; Other: fiso palagi (Samoa); kaho folalahi (Tonga) | Poaceae | grass |
| Asclepias curassavica | English: bastard ipecac, blood flower, bloodflower milkweed, butterfly weed, false ipecac, milkweed; Other: tirika, tiare moko (Cook Islands); laulele, lauhele, nu‘umela, pua ‘anuhe (Hawai‘i); pepetoa, vaomumu, vao fualele (Samoa); lou pepe, tu‘ulapepe (Tonga) | Asclepiadaceae | herb |
| Asparagus densiflorus | English: asparagus fern, sprengeri fern, smilax, regal fern | Liliaceae | herb |
| Austroeupatorium inulaefolium | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Averrhoa bilimbi | English: bilimbi, cucumber tree, tree cucumber, tree sorrel | Oxalidaceae | tree |
| Axonopus micay | Poaceae | grass | |
| Azadirachta indica | English: neem, nim, margosa | Meliaceae | tree |
| Baccharis halimifolia | English: consumption weed, eastern baccharis, groundsel bush, groundsel tree, Sea Island myrtle, sea myrtle, silverling, tree groundsel, waterbrush | Asteraceae | shrub |
| Bacopa procumbens | Scrophulariaceae | herb | |
| Barleria lupulina | English: hophead, Philippine violet | Acanthaceae | shrub |
| Barleria prionitis | English: barleria, porcupine flower | Acanthaceae | shrub |
| Bauhinia acuminata | English: dwarf white bauhinia | Fabaceae | tree |
| Bauhinia purpurea | English: purple orchid tree; purple butterfly tree | Fabaceae | tree |
| Bauhinia variegata | English: orchid tree; mountain ebony | Fabaceae | tree |
| Bidens alba | English: beggar’s tick, Spanish needle, cobbler's pegs, romerillo; Other: ki, ki nehe, ki pipili, nehe (Hawai‘i) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Bidens cynapiifolia | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Blainvillea gayana | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Bocconia frutescens | English: bocconia, plume-poppy, tree poppy, tree celandine, parrotweed | Papaveraceae | shrub |
| Boehmeria macrophylla | English: African jolanettle, false nettle | Urticaceae | herb |
| Boerhavia coccinea | English: boerhavia, hog weed, hog feed, red spiderling, wineflower, tar vine; Other: mata pavo, patagon | Nyctaginaceae | herb |
| Brachiaria eruciformis | English: sweet signal grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Brillantaisia lamium | Acanthaceae | herb | |
| Brugmansia suaveolens | Solanaceae | shrub | |
| Bryophyllum delagoense | English: chandelier plant | Crassulaceae | succulent |
| Buddleja asiatica | English: dog tail; Other: huelo ‘ilio (Hawai'i) | Scrophulariaceae | shrub |
| Buddleja davidii | English: orange eye, butterfly bush, summer lilac | Scrophulariaceae | shrub |
| Buddleja madagascariensis | English: butterfly bush, smoke bush | Scrophulariaceae | shrub |
| Caesalpinia decapetala | English: cat's claw, Mysore thorn, Mauritius thorn, wait-a-bit; Other: puakelekino (Hawai'i) | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Cajanus scarabaeoides | English: peanut grass (Fiji), tropical clover (Fiji) | Fabaceae | vine |
| Calamus spp. | English: rattan | Arecaceae | vine (palm) |
| Calliandra haematocephala | English: red powder puff | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Calliandra surinamensis | English: Surinamese stickpea | Fabaceae | tree |
| Callisia fragrans | English: fragrant inch plant, basketplant, spironema | Commelinaceae | herb |
| Calophyllum antillanum | English: Alexandrian laurel, Antilles calophyllum, beauty leaf, calaba, galba, Indian laurel, kamani, Santa Maria tree | Clusiaceae | tree |
| Calotis lappulacea | English: bur daisy, yellow daisy burr | Asteraceae | herb |
| Calotropis procera | English: calotropis, rubber bush, apple of Sodom, mudar, madar, king’s crown, roostertree | Ascelepiadaceae | shrub |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Cardiospermum grandiflorum | English: balloon vine; heart seed; Other: kopūpū takaviri? (Cook Islands) | Sapindaceae | vine |
| Carmona retusa | English: Fukien tea, Philippine tea, scorpionbush | Boraginaceae | tree |
| Carpobrotus edulis | English: ice plant, pigface, hottentot fig | Aizoaceae | succulent |
| Castilla elastica | English: Panama rubber tree, Mexican rubber tree, uletree; Other: pulu mamoe (American Samoa) | Moraceae | tree |
| Casuarina cunninghamiana | English: river oak, river she-oak, small cone ironwood | Casuarinaceae | tree |
| Casuarina glauca | English: swamp oak, saltmarsh ironwood, longleaf ironwood, gray sheoak | Casuarinaceae | tree |
| Cecropia obtusifolia | English: trumpet tree, guarumo; Other: rau-māniota (Cook Islands) | Cecropiaceae | tree |
| Cecropia peltata | English: trumpet tree | Cecropiaceae | tree |
| Cedrela odorata | English: cigar box cedar, Mexican cedar, West Indian cedar, Spanish cedar, Barbados cedar; Other: sita hina (Tonga) | Meliaceae | tree |
| Cenchrus brownii | English: burgrass, burr grass, sand-bur, slimbristle sandbur | Poaceae | grass |
| Centaurea melitensis | English: Maltese cockspur, Maltese star thistle, Napa thistle, yellow star thistle | Asteraceae | herb |
| Centaurium spicatum | English: spiked centaury | Gentianaceae | herb |
| Centratherum punctatum | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Cestrum auriculatum | Solanaceae | shrub | |
| Cestrum diurnum | English: inkberry, day jessamine, day cestrum, China berry; Other: ariki-va‘ine (Cook Islands); makahala (Hawai'i); sugi vao, suni vao (Samoa); vaitohi (Tonga) | Solanaceae | shrub |
| Cestrum parqui | English: green cestrum, willow-leaved jessamine, Chilean cestrum, green poison-berry | Solanaceae | shrub |
| Chamaecrista mimosoides | English: Japanese tea | Fabaceae | herb |
| Chamaesyce thymifolia | English: red caustic creeper, thyme-leafed spurge | Euphorbiaceae | herb |
| Chenopodium ambrosioides | English: American wormseed, bluebush, Jerusalem tea, Mexican tea, Spanish-tea, wormseed | Chenopodiaceae | herb |
| Chenopodium murale | English: Australian-spinach, green fat hen, nettle-leaf goosefoot, salt-green, sowbane | Chenopodiaceae | herb |
| Chloris divaricata | English: slender chloris, star grass, star windmill grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Chloris radiata | English: plush-grass, radiate fingergrass | Poaceae | grass |
| Chloris virgata | English: feather finger grass, feathered chloris, feathertop Rhodes grass, feathery Rhodes grass, oldland grass, sweet grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Chlorophytum comosum | English: ribbonplant, spider ivy, spiderplant | Liliaceae | herb |
| Chromolaena odorata | English: chromolaena, Siam weed, triffid weed, bitter bush, Jack in the bush | Asteraceae | shrub |
| Chrysobalanus icaco | English: coco plum, icaco | Chrysobalanaceae | shrub |
| Chrysophyllum oliviforme | English: satin leaf, wild star-apple, damson plum | Sapotaceae | tree |
| Chukrasia tabularis | English: Burmese almondwood, chickrassy, Chittagong wood | Meliaceae | tree |
| Cinchona pubescens | English: quinine tree, red cinchona | Rubiaceae | tree |
| Cinnamomum burmannii | English: padang cassia | Lauraceae | tree |
| Cinnamomum camphora | English: camphor tree, camphor laurel | Lauraceae | tree |
| Cinnamomum verum | English: cinnamon tree; Other: tinamoni, tigamoni (American Samoa and Samoa) | Lauraceae | tree |
| Cirsium vulgare | English: spear thistle, Scotch thistle, bull thistle, black thistle, plume thistle; Other: pua kali (Hawai'i) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Cissus nodosa | English: grape ivy | Vitaceae | vine |
| Citharexylum caudatum | English: juniper berry | Verbenaceae | tree |
| Citharexylum gentryi | Verbenaceae | tree | |
| Citharexylum spinosum | English: fiddlewood | Verbenaceae | tree |
| Clausena excavata | English: clausena | Rutaceae | tree |
| Cleome gynandra | English: African spider-flower, bastard-mustard, cat's-whiskers, spider wisp, wild spider flower; Other: honohina, ‘ili‘ohu (Hawai‘i) | Capparaceae | herb |
| Cleome spinosa | English: spiny spider-flower | Capparaceae | herb |
| Clerodendrum japonicum | English: glorybower | Lamiaceae | shrub |
| Clerodendrum paniculatum | English: pagoda plant, pagoda flower | Lamiaceae | shrub |
| Clerodendrum quadriloculare | English: bronze-leaved clerodendrum; Other: losa, losa Fiti (American Samoa and Samoa) | Lamiaceae | shrub |
| Clidemia hirta | English: Koster’s curse, soap bush; Other: la‘au lau mamoe (Samoa) | Melastomataceae | shrub |
| Clitoria laurifolia | English: laurel-leaf pigeonwings | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Clitoria ternatea | English: butterfly pea, Asian pigeonwings; Other: paipa (Tonga) | Fabaceae | vine |
| Clusia rosea | English: signature tree, autograph tree, copey, Scotch attorney, pitchapple | Clusiaceae | tree |
| Coccinia grandis | English: ivy gourd, scarlet-fruited gourd | Cucurbitaceae | vine |
| Commelina benghalensis | English: Benghal dayflower, dayflower, hairy wandering Jew, wandering Jew; Other: hairy honohono (Hawai‘i); mau'u Tonga (Samoa); kanini, kaningi, musie matala pulu (Tonga) | Commelinaceae | herb |
| Conocarpus erectus | English: sea mulberry, buttonwood, button mangrove | Combretaceae | shrub/tree |
| Conyza aegyptiaca | English: fleabane | Asteraceae | herb |
| Conyza sumatrensis | English: broadleaf fleabane, tall fleabane; Other: pakaka (Tonga) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Corchorus olitorius | English: Jew's mallow, jute, Nalta jute, tossa jute | Tiliaceae | herb |
| Corchorus trilocularis | Tiliaceae | herb | |
| Cordia alliodora | English: laurel, Ecuador laurel, salmwood, Spanish elm; Other: kotia (Samoa, Tonga) | Boraginaceae | tree |
| Cordia curassavica | English: black sage | Boraginaceae | shrub |
| Cordia glabra | English: broad-leaved cordia | Boraginaceae | tree |
| Cortaderia jubata | English: jubata grass, Andean pampas grass, purple pampas grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Cortaderia selloana | English: pampas grass, silver pampas grass, Uruguayan pampas grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Corynocarpus laevigatus | English: New Zealand laurel, karakara nut | Corynocarpaceae | tree |
| Cosmos caudatus | English: cosmos | Asteraceae | herb |
| Cotula australis | Engllish: bachelor's-button, carrotweed, common cotula, Australian brass buttons | Asteraceae | herb |
| Crotalaria incana | English: fuzzy rattlepod, woolly rattlepod; Other: kūkaehoki, kolomona (Hawai‘i) | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Crotalaria linifolia | English: narrow-leaved crotalaria | Fabaceae | herb |
| Crotalaria quinquefolia | English: rattlepod | Fabaceae | herb |
| Crotalaria retusa | English: devil-bean, wedge-leaf crotalaria, wedge-leaf rattlepod; Other: piini? (Tonga) | Fabaceae | herb |
| Crotalaria spectabilis | English: rattlebox, showy crotalaria, showy rattlebox, showy rattlepod; Other: kolomona (Hawai‘i); ha'apai (Tonga) | Fabaceae | herb |
| Crotalaria zanzibarica | English: curara-pea | Fabaceae | herb |
| Cryptostegia grandiflora | English: rubber vine, India rubber vine, Palay rubbervine | Ascelepiadaceae | vine |
| Cryptostegia madagascariensis | English: Madagascar rubbervine | Ascelepiadaceae | vine |
| Cucumis dipsaceus | English: hedgehog cucumber, hedgehog gourd, teasel gourd | Cucurbitaceae | herb |
| Cupaniopsis anacardioides | English: carrotwood, tuckeroo | Sapindaceae | tree |
| Cuphea carthagenensis | English: Columbian cuphea, Colombian waxweed, tarweed; Other: laau fau moti (Samoa) | Lythraceae | herb |
| Cuscuta cassytoides | Cuscutaceae | herb | |
| Cyathea cooperi | English: Australian tree fern | Cyatheaceae | fern |
| Cyathula prostrata | English: cyathula; Other: mata kura (Cook Islands (Miti'aro?); tolomo'unga (Tonga) | Amaranthaceae | herb |
| Cymbopogon refractus | English: barbwire grass, soap grass; Other: aretu monoi, aretu noanoa (French Polynesia) | Poaceae | grass |
| Cyperus cyperinus | English: long-headed sedge; Other: mue mue, mou upo tutu (French Polynesia) | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Cyperus difformis | English: dirty-Dora, one-arm sedge, rice sedge, small-flower umbrella-plant, variable flat sedge | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Cyperus distans | English: slender cyperus | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Cyperus haspan | Cyperaceae | sedge | |
| Cyperus iria | English: grasshopper’s cyperus, rice flat sedge, umbrella sedge; Other: mou, mou hairi (French Polynesia) | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Cyperus ligularis | English: rocket sedge, swamp flatsedge | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Cyperus pilosus | Cyperaceae | sedge | |
| Cyrtococcum patens | Poaceae | grass | |
| Cyrtococcum trigonum | English: short-leaf cyrtococcum grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Dactylis glomerata | English: barnyard grass, cocksfoot, cockspur, orchard grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Dalbergia sissoo | English: Indian dalbergia, Indian rosewood, sissoo, shisham | Fabaceae | tree |
| Datura ferox | English: fierce thorn-apple, large thorn-apple, long-spine thorn-apple | Solanaceae | herb |
| Datura inoxia | English: angel's-trumpet, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, sacred datura, thorn-apple | Solanaceae | herb |
| Datura stramonium | English: datura, jimsonweed, moonflower, purple thorn-apple, thorn-apple; Other: lā’au hānō, kīkānia, kīkānia haole (Hawai‘i) | Solanaceae | herb |
| Delairea odorata | English: German ivy, Italian ivy, cape ivy | Asteraceae | vine |
| Dentella repens | Rubiaceae | herb | |
| Derris elliptica | English: derris | Fabaceae | vine |
| Desmanthus virgatus | English: slender mimosa, virgate mimosa | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Desmodium gangeticum | Fabaceae | herb | |
| Desmodium heterophyllum | English: hetero, Spanish clover | Fabaceae | herb |
| Desmodium intortum | English: beggarlice, green-leaf desmodium | Fabaceae | herb |
| Desmodium nicaraguense | Fabaceae | shrub | |
| Desmodium scorpiurus | Fabaceae | herb | |
| Desmodium tortuosum | English: Florida beggarweed, Spanish clover, dixie ticktrefoil | Fabaceae | herb |
| Dichrostachys cinerea | English: aroma, Kalahari Christmas tree, Chinese lantern tree, sickle bush, marabou-thorn, marabú | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Digitaria bicornis | English: southern crabgrass | Poaceae | grass |
| Digitaria eriantha | English: common finger grass, digit grass, pangola grass, woolly finger grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Digitaria fuscescens | English Y grass; Other: creeping kūkaepua‘a (Hawai‘i) | Poaceae | grass |
| Digitaria horizontalis | Poaceae | grass | |
| Digitaria insularis | English: cottongrass, sourgrass, feather-top grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Digitaria sanguinalis | English: crab finger grass, hairy crabgrass, large crabgrass, manne terrestre, panic sanguin, summer grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Dillenia suffruticosa | English: shrubby dillenia, shrubby simpoh | Dilleniaceae | shrub/tree |
| Diplotaxis muralis | English: wall rocket | Brassicaceae | herb |
| Drymaria cordata | English: drymaria, tropical chickweed, West Indian chickweed; Other: pipili, pilipili (Hawai‘i) | Caryophyllaceae | herb |
| Duranta erecta | English: duranta, golden dewdrop, pigeon-berry, sky-flower; Other: ‘olive (Tonga) | Verbenaceae | shrub |
| Echinochloa polystachya | English: aleman grass, carib grass, creeping rivergrass | Poaceae | grass |
| Echinochloa stagnina | English: barnyard grass, burgu grass, hippo grass, long-awn water grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Elaeocarpus angustifolius | English: blue fig, blue marble tree, quandong (Australia); Other: apatua, siapoatua, siapatua (American Samoa and Samoa) | Elaeocarpaceae | tree |
| Eleocharis dulcis | English: Chinese water-chestnut, ground-chestnut, waternut; Other: utu utu (Samoa) | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Eleocharis geniculata | English: spikerush | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Elephantopus mollis | English: elephantopus, elephant’s foot, tobacco weed; Other: tapuvae ‘erepani, tapuae ‘erepani, vaevae ‘erepani, tapua ‘erepani? (Cook Islands); lata hina, lau veveli (Tonga) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Elettaria cardamomum | English: cardamom | Zingiberaceae | herb |
| Emex australis | English: doublegee, spiny emex, three-corner Jack | Polygonaceae | herb |
| Emex spinosa | Polygonaceae | herb | |
| Emilia coccinea | English: Flora’s paintbrush, tasselflower | Asteraceae | herb |
| Emilia fosbergii | Other: pualele (Hawai‘i) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Episcia cupreata | English: episcia, flame violet | Gesneriaceae | herb |
| Eragrostis cilianensis | English: gray love grass, stinkgrass | Poaceae | grass |
| Eragrostis elongata | English: clustered lovegrass (Australia) | Poaceae | grass |
| Eragrostis pilosa | English: hairy love grass, Indian love grass, soft lovegrass | Poaceae | grass |
| Eragrostis tenuifolia | English: elastic grass, love grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Eragrostis tremula | Poaceae | grass | |
| Eragrostis unioloides | Poaceae | grass | |
| Erechtites hieraciifolius | English: American burnweed, American fireweed, burnweed, fireweed, Malayan groundsel, pilewort | Asteraceae | herb |
| Erechtites valerianifolia | English: Brazilian fireweed, fireweed, fireweed daisy, Ceylon thistle; Other: fua lele, pua lele (Samoa); fisi puna (Tonga) | Asteraceae | herb |
| Eremochloa ophiuroides | English: centipede grass | Poaceae | grass |
| Erigeron bellioides | Asteraceae | herb | |
| Erigeron karvinskianus | English: Mexican daisy, seaside daisy, daisy fleabane | Asteraceae | herb |
| Eriochloa procera | Poaceae | grass | |
| Eryngium foetidum | English: false coriander, shadow-beni, stinkweed | Apiaceae | herb |
| Euphorbia helioscopia | English: sun spurge | Euphorbiaceae | herb |
| Euphorbia peplus | English: petty spurge | Euphorbiaceae | herb |
| Eustachys petraea | Poaceae | grass | |
| Fallopia convolvulus | English: black bindweed, wild buckwheat | Polygonaceae | herb |
| Ficus altissima | English: lofty fig, false banyan, council tree | Moraceae | tree |
| Ficus benghalensis | English: banyan, Indian banyan, vada tree; Other: pulu (Samoa) | Moraceae | tree |
| Ficus benjamina | English: weeping fig, baka, Java fig, weeping fig, Benjamin tree; Other: ‘ovava Fisi (Tonga) | Moraceae | tree |
| Ficus macrophylla | English: Moreton Bay fig | Moraceae | tree |
| Ficus microcarpa | English: Chinese banyan, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel | Moraceae | tree |
| Ficus nota | English: tibig | Moraceae | tree |
| Ficus rubiginosa | English: rusty-leaved fig, Port Jackson fig, littleleaf fig | Moraceae | tree |
| Filicium decipiens | English: fern tree, soapberry | Sapindaceae | tree |
| Fimbristylis autumnalis | English: slender fimbristylis | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Fimbristylis littoralis | English: grass-like fimbristylis, lesser fimbristylis | Cyperaceae | sedge |
| Flacourtia indica | English: batoko-plum, governor's-plum, Indian-plum, Madagascar-plum, ramontchi | Flacourtiaceae | tree |
| Flacourtia rukam | English: Indian plum, Indian prune, governor's plum; Other: filimoto (American Samoa, Fiji, Futuna, Samoa and Tonga) | Flacourtiaceae | tree |
| Flemingia macrophylla | Fabaceae | tree | |
| Flemingia strobilifera | English: luck plant, wild hops | Fabaceae | shrub |
| Flindersia brayleyana | English: Queensland maple, silkwood | Rutaceae | tree |
| Fuirena umbellata | Cyperaceae | sedge | |
| Funtumia elastica | English: African rubber tree, silkrubber; Other: pulu vao (Samoa) | Apocynaceae | tree |
| Furcraea hexapetala | English: Cuban hemp, hemp | Agavaceae | succulent |
| Galinsoga parviflora | English: gallant soldier, small-flower galinsoga, yellow weed | Asteraceae | herb |
| Galinsoga quadriradiata | English: hairy galinsoga, Peruvian daisy | Asteraceae | herb |
| Gamochaeta pensylvanica | English: Pennsylvania cudweed | Asteraceae | herb |
| Gamochaeta purpurea | English: purple cudweed | Asteraceae | herb |
| Gmelina arborea | English: gmelina, white teak, white beech | Lamiaceae | tree |
| Gmelina asiatica | English: badhara bush, Asiatic beechberry, oval-leafed gmelina | Lamiaceae | shrub |
| Gmelina elliptica |