Genera

• Plumbago
  Plumbago
  Plumbago is a genus of 10-20 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. Common names include plumbago and leadwort...
  
  , the leadworts, a genus of flowering plants
• Plumbago (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterflies
• "Plumbago drawing
  Plumbago drawing
  Plumbago drawings are graphite drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries. There was a group of artists whose work in plumbago is remarkable for their portraits drawn with finely pointed pieces of graphite and on vellum. Initially these works were often prepared as the basis of an engraving...
  
  ", graphite portraits of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Materials

• From the Latin word plumbum for the metallic element lead (Pb).
• Used generically for lead ores such as galena
  Galena
  Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulfide. It is the most important lead ore mineral.Galena is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It crystallizes in the cubic crystal system often showing octahedral forms...
  
   and lead oxides such as Red lead
  Red lead
  Lead tetroxide, also called minium, red lead or triplumbic tetroxide, is a bright red or orange crystalline or amorphous pigment. Chemically, red lead is lead tetroxide, Pb3O4, or 2PbO·PbO2....
  
  
• Plumbago (mineral) an archaic word for the mineral form of graphite.