Plants

The plant most often mistaken for a strawberry is mock strawberry, a creeping weed with the same three-part leaves and runners and small red berries that

The plants most often mistaken for begonias fall into two groups. For patterned leaves like rex and cane begonias, look at coleus, caladium, coral bells, polka

The plants most often mistaken for salvia are its relatives in the mint family: catmint, catnip, anise hyssop, hyssop, betony, bugleweed, lamb’s ear and basil, all

The plants that look most like holly are false holly (holly osmanthus), Oregon grape and its relatives leatherleaf mahonia, agarita and Texas barberry, holm oak, hollyleaf

The plants that look most like impatiens, and that do the same job in a shady bed, are New Guinea impatiens and SunPatiens, wax begonias, torenia,

Some plants look like butterflies because of their leaves, and some because of their flowers. The leaf group is led by the red butterfly wing plant,

The plants that look most like thistle fall into two groups. For the garden, globe thistle, sea holly, Miss Willmott’s ghost, cardoon, globe artichoke and basket

The most dangerous plants that look like Queen Anne’s lace are poison hemlock and water hemlock, which can kill if eaten, and giant hogweed, cow parsnip

The plants most often mistaken for clover are wood sorrels (Oxalis) and black medic. Wood sorrels have heart-shaped leaflets that fold down at night and five-petaled