Plant Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ plants, flowers, trees, and succulents — with care, light, water, and how to tell them apart.
Noble Fir
Noble Fir is a stately Pacific Northwest conifer with blue-green upswept needles and large upright cones. It is one of the most popular and long-lasting Christmas trees.
tree
Moon Valley Pilea
Moon Valley pilea is a compact tropical houseplant grown for its deeply textured, quilted bright green leaves with bronze sunken veins that resemble a lunar landscape.
houseplant
Marshmallow
Marshmallow is a soft, downy wetland perennial in the mallow family, with velvety gray-green foliage and pale pink to white flowers. It grows in damp meadows and along riverbanks.
herb
Friendship Plant
The Friendship Plant is a low-growing Pilea with deeply quilted, bronze-green leaves. It earns its name from how easily it propagates and is shared between gardeners.
houseplant
Goldfish Plant
The goldfish plant is a tropical trailing houseplant named for its bright orange, pouched flowers that look like leaping goldfish among glossy dark green leaves.
houseplant
Globe Thistle
Globe thistle is a bold, architectural perennial topped with spherical, steel-blue flower heads above spiny, gray-green foliage. It is drought-tolerant and irresistible to bees.
flower
Catmint
A soft, billowing perennial with gray-green aromatic foliage and a long haze of small lavender-blue flowers. Tough, drought-proof, deer-resistant, and a magnet for bees.
herb
Asparagus Fern
The asparagus fern is not a true fern but a relative of garden asparagus, grown for its soft, feathery sprays of bright green needle-like foliage. It is easy and fast-growing.
houseplant
Silver Dollar Eucalyptus
A fast-growing eucalyptus famous for its round, silvery blue-green juvenile leaves, widely cut for fresh and dried floral arrangements. It carries the signature menthol-like eucalyptus fragrance.
tree
Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a hardy herbaceous perennial grown for its thick, ruby-to-green leaf stalks rising from a ground-level crown. It is a robust, long-lived cool-season garden plant.
herb
Red Tip Photinia
Red tip photinia is a fast-growing evergreen shrub famous for its brilliant red new growth that matures to glossy green. It is one of the most popular shrubs for tall hedges and screens.
shrub
Pink Princess Philodendron
Pink Princess Philodendron is a collector's vining aroid prized for dark green leaves splashed with bubblegum-pink variegation. Each leaf is unique, and bright light is needed to keep the pink coming.
houseplant
Medallion Calathea
The Medallion Calathea has large rounded leaves with intricate feathered patterns of green, cream, and pink over deep purple undersides. A showstopper that demands humidity, clean water, and steady care.
houseplant
Key Lime Pie Plant
A small clumping succulent with plump, wedge-shaped green leaves whose ruffled, crinkled tips look like pie crust. Reddish aerial roots fuzz the stem like cinnamon.
succulent
Joseph's Coat
Joseph's coat is a colorful foliage plant grown for its vividly variegated leaves in shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, and green. It is widely used for low edging, patterns, and container accents.
houseplant
Gray Pine
A sparse, open-crowned California pine known for its ghostly gray-green foliage and enormous, heavy cones with large seeds. It is endemic to the dry foothills surrounding California's Central Valley.
tree
Elephant Bush
Elephant bush is a fast-growing South African succulent shrub with small round jade-green leaves on reddish stems, popular as a houseplant, bonsai subject, and carbon-storing landscape plant.
succulent
Corn Plant
The corn plant is a sturdy indoor tree with thick woody canes topped by arching, corn-like leaves, often with a yellow-green center stripe. It is famously tolerant of low light and neglect.
houseplant
Blue Star Fern
An epiphytic fern with broad, deeply lobed fronds in a soft blue-green hue and fuzzy golden-brown rhizomes. It is more forgiving than many ferns and tolerates average household humidity.
fern
Arrowhead Plant
The arrowhead plant is an easy, fast-growing tropical vine whose leaves shift from arrowhead-shaped to deeply lobed as the plant matures. It comes in green, variegated, and pink-tinged forms.
houseplant
Begonia Maculata
Begonia maculata is the iconic polka dot begonia, with olive-green angel-wing leaves dotted in silver and backed in deep red. It produces clusters of white flowers under good conditions.
houseplant
Polka Dot Plant
A compact, bushy plant grown for its colorfully spotted leaves splashed in pink, white, or red over green. Cheerful and easy, though it gets leggy without pinching.
houseplant
Peperomia Raindrop
Peperomia Raindrop has glossy, heart-to-teardrop-shaped leaves that resemble large green raindrops. Compact and semi-succulent, it's an easy and attractive choice for desks and shelves.
houseplant
Little Jewel
A compact intergeneric hybrid forming tight rosettes of plump, pointed, blue-green leaves tipped in rosy red. A small, jewel-like succulent that clusters into neat clumps.
succulent