Herbaceous plants

• Cold Hardiness: Perennial

• Habit: variegation most common form. Grows 24-inch-tall plant with

• Cultural Requirements: Mesophyte, medium to bright light, average humidity

• Bloom: small greenish-white flowers

• Landscape Utilization: houseplant in hanging basket

• Additional information: Native to tropical and southern Africa. Great for air purification. Easily propagated through its plantlets.

Spider Plant

(Chlorophytum comosum)

Cold Hardiness: perennial

• Habit: Growing in colonies, grows 6-10 inches tall, teardrop-shaped bulbs that are above ground.

• Cultural Requirements: avoid watering on a schedule. Partial shade, mesophyte.

• Bloom: small pale pink flowers

• Landscape Utilization: Interiors plant

• Additional Information: mildly toxic in all of its parts

Leopard Bulb

(Ledebouria socialis)

Cold Hardiness: Perennial, USDA 10 and 11; Annual elsewhere

• Habit: 1 in. to 4 in. upright mounds

• Cultural Requirements: Mesophyte, partial shade; heat tolerant

• Landscape Utilization: Massing plant, containers, background plant

• Additional Information: Grown for foliage (multicolored)

Coleus

(Solenostemon scutellarioides)

Cold Hardiness: Perennial, Zones 6-11

• Habit: 12-36 in tall; 12-36 in wide

• Cultural Requirements: Xerophyte; low maintenance, full sun

• Bloom: red, pink, or yellow raceme of tubes blooms from the bottom of the raceme up

• Landscape Utilization: beds & borders

• Additional info: no serious pest problems; susceptible to root rot Tolerates rabbits, drought; attracts butterflies and hummingbirds

Red Yucca

(Hesperaloe parviflora)

Cold Hardiness: perennial; zones 10-11

• Habit: cascading 1 ft by 1 ft

• Cultural Requirements: medium light, mesophyte, med heat

• Bloom: showy red, purple, or white blooms

• Landscape Utilization: interior rotational color, hanging baskets,

• Additional Information: popular for decorating during winter months inside

Thanksgiving Cactus

(Schlumbergera truncata)

Cold Hardiness: Perennial in zones 8b-9, annual in colder climates

• Habit: Rosette, 6 to 12 in. tall 1 to 2 ft. wide

• Cultural Requirements: well-drained soil, full sun to part shade; Heat and drought tolerant.

• Landscape Utilization: Beds & borders

• Wildlife: Attracts bees, butterflies and other insects

• Additional Information: Genus name derived from the Latin word for old man due to its fluffy white seed heads.

Dusty Miller

(Senecio cineraria)

Cold Hardiness: Annual

• Habit: May be prostrate, 3 in. tall and 18-24 in. wide, or more upright, 8-18 in. tall

• Cultural Requirements: Full sun, but can tolerate semi-shade

• Landscape Utilization: Bedding, annual groundcover, patio containers, hanging baskets

• Additional Information: Native to Madagascar and India

Vinca

(Catharanthus roseus)

Cold Hardiness: zone 10-12

• Habit: 3 to 6 ft wide; more depending on upkeep

• Cultural Requirements: Mesophyte; bright indirect sunlight or in part sun

• Landscape Utilization: houseplant for sunny to shady areas

• Additional info: tolerates, deer, rabits, drought, heavy shade, dry soil, shallow-rocky soil

Pothos Ivy

(Epipremnum aureum)

Cold Hardiness: Herbaceous Perennial; zone 10 to 12

• Habit: 2 to 4 ft tall; 1 to 2 ft wide

• Bloom: Rarely flowers; greenish-white

• Cultural Requirements: Part shade; Mesophyte; low maintenance

• Landscape Utilization: Indoor potter plant

• Additional Information: leaf = evergreen; sometimes called mother-in law’s tongue; native to tropical western Africa

Snake Plant

(Sansevieria trifasciata)

Cold hardiness: Perennial; USDA hardiness zone 7

• Habit: 18- 24 in. tall groundcover; light blue flowers in spring and sporadically after.

• Cultural Requirements: Part-sun; mesophyte

• Landscape Utilization: Vigorous; will engulf small shrubs

• Additional Info: White and yellow forms are available

Purple Heart Vine

(Setcreasea purpurea)

Cold Hardiness: Tender Perennial; zone 9-11

• Habit: 12in to 18 in tall; 20- 32 in wide

• Cultural Requirements: sun to partial shade; mesophyte; consistently moist soil

• Landscape Utilization: Generally an indoor container plant; can be grown outside as long as there is enough shade

• Additional Information: Native to south Brazilian rainforest

Painted Fingernail Bromeliad

(Neoregelia spectabilis)

Cold Hardiness: zone 9;

• Habitat: Up to 12 in tall; up to 6 in wide

• Cultural Requirements: Full sun, bright indoor light

• Additional Information: Native to Madagascar; Showy blooms, easy to propagate

Panda Plant

(Kalanchoe tomentosa)

Cold Hardiness: Zone 11-12; Perennial inside, annual outside

• Habit: Shrub, branching, bushy shrub that grows up to 10 feet tall

• Bloom: White male flowers and yellowish female flowers

• Cultural Requirements: medium water use, part shad to full shade

• Landscape Utilization: hedges, potted specimen

• Additional Information: Native to tropical Asia and the western Pacific region

Croton

(Codiaeum variegatum)

Cold Hardiness: Perennial, zones 3-10

• Habit: Upright, rounded, fine-textured foliage

• Cultural Requirements: excellent drought tolerance, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun

• Foliage: cream-colored seedheads held above foliage like tiny flags

• Landscape Utilization: beds and borders.

• Additional Information: Prairies and plains of North America

Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass

(Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’)

Cold Hardiness: zone 9 to 11; Perennial

• Habit: 3 to 6 ft tall; 1 1/2 to 3 ft wide

• Cultural Requirements: Dry to medium watering; full sun

• Bloom: green subtended by red or yellow bracts; pink showy flower; evergreen leaves

• Additional Information: Has sharp thorns. Tolerates air pollution

Crown of Thorns

(Euphorbia milii)