Plants

Songs that mention trees and other plants.

Central theme

• C Is For Conifers
• Cabbagetown
• Clean Bean
• Dallas - Venue song for Trees
• Dear Old Plants
• Garden Of Eden
• Healer's Lament
• The House At The Top Of The Tree
• King Weed
• Mountain Flowers
• O Tannenbaum
• Old Pine Box
• Oranges
• Out Of A Tree
• Photosynthesis - In plants!
• Poison Flowers
• Sleeping In The Flowers
• Stalk Of Wheat
• Super Hot Mowing
• T-Shirt - About a squirrel in a tree
• To A Forest
• Tree
• The Tree Has Died
• Tumbleweed
• Welcome To The Jungle

Briefly mentioned

• Apple Juice Blues - "Sassafras..."
• Black Ops - "Ripping up some lawn"
• Boomerang - "All the deer and all the flowers"
• Canajoharie - "Through the overgrowth / Of the underbrush" , "Right through those trees"
• Can You Find It? - "Is the R inside the tree?"
• Careful What You Pack - "Shaking up the bees, swinging from the tree"
• Cells - Moss, a sunflower, and a tree
• Concrete And Clay - "You to me are sweet as roses in the morning"
• Cowtown - "The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned, the ardor of arboreality is an adventure we have spurned."
• Darling, The Dose - "Venom and nightshade and strychnine's done in some"
• The Day - "The trees all waved their giant arms"
• Different Town - "And the stick would be this big old tree"
• Dimension Six Rock - "Along with trees and rocks and sticks"
• Eight Hundred And Thirteen Mile Car Trip - "Three thousand trees"
• Electric Car - "On verdant green", "Beside the tree"
• For Science - "Flowers die and so will I"
• The Gravel's Coming With Us - "There'll be trees, lots of trees"
• Gudetama's Busy Days - "Sitting in an old truck tire swinging from a tree"
• Havalina - "Among the trees"
• How Now Dark Cloud? - "Left under a tree"
• I Am A Paleontologist - "Crushing plants with rounded teeth"
• I Can't Remember The Dream - "They creep like weeds / Like weeds, they cover all the flowerbeds"
• I Enjoy Being A Boy - "And the blackbirds make nest in my tree"
• James K. Polk - "Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump"
• The Joker - "Want to shake your tree"
• Judy Is Your Viet Nam - "Boughs of holly"
• Lazy - "I want to peep through that deep tangled wildwood"
• Let Me Tell You About My Operation - "Front lawn"
• Lullabye To Nightmares - "Underneath the shady tree"
• Maine - "Glazed with coniferous green"
• Meet The Elements - "Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bacteria and men"
• Money For Dope - "Sarsaparilla"
• Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "But when the breeze knocks the hive off the trees"
• Mr. Mischief Night - "Creeping in the grass"
• My Brother The Ape - "Some relatives of ours / Like the rotifer, the sycamore"
• New Hampshire - "Flower-sniffing poet of New Hampshire"
• New Haven - "I'm off the lily pad"
• Nevada (Hello EP) - "Ladies falling from the treetops"
• Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "And nothing's smellin' like a rose"
• Now Is Strange - "Have you seen that naughty boy who steals each blade of grass"
• O, Do Not Forsake Me - "O, some have forgotten the flower of speech"
• One Dozen Monkeys - "Mom was upset with the monkeys in the tree"
• One Everything - "You got the cars, the trees, the house"
• Pittsburgh - "Called the Electric Banana"
• Quit The Circus - "Now I make as much sense / As the car on the lawn / Sinking real low / Until it is gone"
• Santa Claus - "What you gonna put under my Christmas tree?"
• Santa Cruz - "Somebody invented a gun that shoots flowers"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "From the top of a tree"
• So To Be One Of Us - "We swing on limbs of trees"
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "The bark now commands the trees"
• Synopsis For Latecomers - mentions a forest
• Then The Kids Took Over - "I even planted a tree, now it's twelve feet tall"
• They Might Be Giants - "They might be frying up a stalk of wheat"
• Too Tall Girl - "Past the rooftops and the trees"
• Tractor - "The flowers wilt in his wake"
• Up The Junction - "So I bought the girl some flowers"
• West Virginia - "Rhododendron evergreen, propellers spinning from the tree"
• What Bothers The Spaceman? - "Walk past the trees he used to swing from"
• Where Do They Make Balloons? - "In Holland they have windmills, lots of bikes and pretty flowers"
• Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? - "Like the rose so sweet"
• You'll Miss Me - "Lighting up your house like X-mas trees" , "Every tree a finger of my glove"
• Your Mom's Alright - "Your ass is grass, and I'm a lawnmower / You dandelion, I am a sunflower"

Honorable mention

• Artwork for The Else - specifically, the front cover features bare trees in the background
• Artwork for Glean - specifically, the front cover features bare trees in the background
• Grassroots Internet Revolution - "Grass" is a plant, but not what "grassroots" refers to.
• Artwork for Join Us — specifically, the back cover and the Never Knew Love image — features a yellow rose.
• Museum Of Idiots - An interpretation is one of deforestation.
• The Spine features trees on the front and back covers, as well as the liners.
• They Got Lost - Artwork features cacti.

See also

• Animals
• Food