Plant Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ plants, flowers, trees, and succulents — with care, light, water, and how to tell them apart.
Bird's Nest Fern
An epiphytic fern that forms a rosette of broad, undivided, ripple-edged fronds around a central nest-like crown. Unlike lacy ferns, its simple glossy leaves make it forgiving and bold indoors.
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Snake Plant
The snake plant is a tough, drought-tolerant succulent with stiff, upright sword-shaped leaves banded in green and yellow. It thrives on neglect and tolerates low light, making it one of the most beginner-friendly houseplants available.
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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.
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Century Plant
A massive rosette-forming agave with thick, spiny, blue-grey leaves that grows for decades before sending up a towering flower stalk and then dying. It is an iconic architectural plant of arid gardens.
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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.
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Aluminum Plant
A compact foliage plant with quilted green leaves splashed with shimmering silver patches that look like brushed aluminum. Fast, bushy, and easy to grow.
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Spider Plant
The spider plant is a fast-growing, easy-care houseplant with arching variegated leaves and dangling baby plantlets called 'spiderettes.' It is adaptable and one of the best plants for beginners.
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Zebra Plant
The zebra plant is a striking Brazilian houseplant prized for glossy dark leaves boldly striped in white and short-lived golden bract spikes. It is notoriously fussy about humidity and watering.
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Rubber Plant
A popular indoor tree with large, thick, glossy leaves that can grow tall and statuesque indoors. Burgundy and variegated cultivars add dramatic color to the classic deep-green form.
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Prayer Plant
A low-growing tropical foliage plant famous for folding its decoratively veined leaves upward at night, like hands in prayer. Its oval leaves show striking patterns of green, cream and red.
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Panda Plant
The panda plant is a fuzzy, felt-leaved succulent covered in soft silvery hairs with brown-tipped edges. Its plush, ear-like leaves make it a charming, low-maintenance houseplant.
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Nerve Plant
The nerve plant is a low, spreading tropical houseplant grown for its small leaves laced with bright white, pink, or red veins. It loves humidity and is a favorite for terrariums.
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Lipstick Plant
A trailing tropical epiphyte named for its tubular red flowers that emerge from dark, lipstick-tube-shaped buds. It makes a lush, flowering hanging-basket plant when given warmth and bright light.
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Cup Plant
A towering North American prairie perennial whose paired leaves fuse around the square stem to form water-holding cups beneath bright yellow daisy flowers.
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Compass Plant
A towering prairie perennial with large yellow sunflower-like blooms and deeply cut leaves that align north-south to avoid the midday sun, giving it its navigational name.
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Cigar Plant
A bushy tender perennial covered in tiny tubular orange-red flowers tipped with white and black, resembling lit cigars and beloved by hummingbirds.
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Banana Plant
The banana is a giant tropical herb, not a true tree, grown for its fruit and dramatic paddle-shaped leaves. Its 'trunk' is actually a pseudostem of tightly rolled leaf sheaths.
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Air Plant
Air plants are rootless epiphytes that absorb water and nutrients through their leaves, so they can grow mounted on wood, in shells, or simply set on a shelf without any soil.
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Waffle Plant
A low, spreading foliage plant with puckered, waffle-textured leaves that are metallic green-gray above and rich purple beneath. Loves warmth and humidity.
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Wax Plant
The wax plant is a long-lived trailing vine with thick, waxy leaves and clusters of star-shaped, sweetly scented flowers that look almost like porcelain.
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ZZ Plant
The ZZ plant is an exceptionally tough houseplant with glossy, waxy leaves and thick water-storing rhizomes that let it survive drought and low light. It is nearly indestructible and ideal for beginners or neglectful owners.
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Rattlesnake Plant
A prayer plant with long, wavy leaves patterned in alternating dark and light green spots and rich purple undersides. Its dramatic markings come with calathea-typical demands for humidity and clean water.
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Obedient Plant
Obedient plant is a native perennial with tall spikes of pink to white snapdragon-like flowers in late summer. It earns its name because pushed flowers stay in their new position.
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Pitcher Plant
A carnivorous plant whose leaves form hanging, fluid-filled pitchers that lure, trap, and digest insects. Tropical Nepenthes species dangle their colorful 'monkey cups' from vining stems.
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