🌱 Seedling

A seedling, or a young plant, as a newly sprouted tree. Depicted as a tiny, light-green plant with a short stem and two leaves. Often shown freshly sprung from a small mound of brown earth.

May be used for various content concerning plant life. May also be used as a symbol of spring or representation of various types of new growth.

Not to be confused with 🌿 Herb, though their applications may overlap.

Facebook’s seedling previously had three leaves.

Seedling was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.