Houseplants
Houseplants care & growing guides
Care guides for the indoor plants people actually grow — light, water, and troubleshooting.
African Violet
Saintpaulia ionantha
A compact, ever-blooming windowsill favorite with velvety leaves and clusters of purple, pink, or…
Air Plant
Tillandsia spp.
The rootless wonder — an epiphytic bromeliad that drinks and feeds through silvery scales on its…
Anthurium
Anthurium andraeanum
The flamingo flower — a glossy tropical prized for its lacquered, heart-shaped spathes in red…
Areca Palm
Dypsis lutescens
Also called the butterfly or golden cane palm, this clustering feather palm sends up multiple…
Baby Rubber Plant
Peperomia obtusifolia
A compact, easygoing tabletop plant with thick, glossy, spoon-shaped leaves that store water like…
Bird of Paradise
Strelitzia reginae
A bold tropical with huge paddle-shaped leaves that brings instant architecture to a bright room…
Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
A lush, arching classic with feathery fronds that spill gracefully over a pot or hanging basket…
Calathea Medallion
Goeppertia veitchiana 'Medallion'
A living-art prayer plant with broad, rounded leaves brushed in feathered emerald and silver, each…
Calathea Orbifolia
Goeppertia orbifolia (syn. Calathea orbifolia)
A showstopping prayer plant grown for its broad, rounded leaves striped in alternating…
Cast Iron Plant
Aspidistra elatior
A famously tough, slow-growing foliage plant with long, arching, deep-green blades that earned its…
Chinese Evergreen
Aglaonema commutatum
One of the most forgiving houseplants you can own — a slow, bushy tropical grown for its patterned…
Chinese Money Plant
Pilea peperomioides
A cheerful, easygoing houseplant with round, coin-shaped leaves on slender stalks that give it the…
Christmas Cactus
Schlumbergera bridgesii
A jungle cactus from Brazil's cloud forests, grown for flat, scalloped segments and a flush of…
Croton
Codiaeum variegatum
The garden croton is grown for its riotous, leathery foliage — leaves splashed and veined in…
Dragon Tree
Dracaena marginata
The Madagascar dragon tree — an architectural, slow-growing houseplant with slender canes topped…
Dumb Cane
Dieffenbachia spp.
A lush, fast-growing tropical foliage plant whose broad leaves are splashed and speckled in cream…
English Ivy
Hedera helix
A classic evergreen trailing vine with lobed, dark-green (often variegated) leaves that spill from…
Fiddle Leaf Fig
Ficus lyrata
The interior-design darling — a West African fig grown indoors for its huge, violin-shaped leaves…
Golden Pothos
Epipremnum aureum
A trailing vine with heart-shaped green leaves splashed in buttery gold, golden pothos is one of…
Heartleaf Philodendron
Philodendron hederaceum
A near-indestructible trailing vine with glossy, deep-green heart-shaped leaves that cascade from…
Hoya Carnosa
Hoya carnosa
The wax plant — a long-lived, semi-succulent trailing vine with thick, waxy leaves and clusters of…
Kentia Palm
Howea forsteriana
An elegant, slow-growing feather palm with gracefully arching deep-green fronds, native to…
Lucky Bamboo
Dracaena sanderiana
Not a true bamboo at all but a slow-growing Dracaena, prized in feng shui and sold as jointed…
Majesty Palm
Ravenea rivularis
A graceful feather palm with arching fronds of fine, deep-green leaflets that bring a soft…
Marble Queen Pothos
Epipremnum aureum 'Marble Queen'
A trailing pothos heavily streaked and speckled in creamy white, as if each green leaf were…
Monstera Adansonii
Monstera adansonii
The Swiss cheese vine — a petite, fast-trailing cousin of the deliciosa whose narrow leaves are…
Monstera Deliciosa
Monstera deliciosa
The Swiss cheese plant — a fast-growing tropical climber prized for the dramatic holes and splits…
Moon Valley Pilea
Pilea mollis
A compact, bushy friendship-plant relative grown for its deeply quilted, apple-green leaves…
Moth Orchid
Phalaenopsis spp.
The moth orchid is the most beginner-friendly orchid you can buy — an epiphyte whose arching…
Nerve Plant
Fittonia albivenis
A low-growing tropical creeper from the Peruvian rainforest floor, prized for olive leaves laced…
Norfolk Island Pine
Araucaria heterophylla
Not a true pine but a tropical conifer from the South Pacific, grown indoors for its soft, tiered…
Parlor Palm
Chamaedorea elegans
A dainty, slow-growing palm that brought tropical greenery into Victorian parlors and still…
Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum wallisii
A graceful tropical with glossy, deep-green leaves and elegant white spathes that look like furled…
Peperomia Hope
Peperomia tetraphylla 'Hope'
A compact trailing semi-succulent with plump, coin-shaped leaves arranged in whorls of three or…
Philodendron Brasil
Philodendron hederaceum 'Brasil'
A variegated cultivar of the heartleaf philodendron, splashed with lime-green and gold streaks…
Polka Dot Plant
Hypoestes phyllostachya
A small, bushy tropical foliage plant grown for its freckled leaves splashed in pink, white, or…
Ponytail Palm
Beaucarnea recurvata
Not a true palm at all, but a succulent from Mexico's dry highlands. Its swollen, water-storing…
Prayer Plant
Maranta leuconeura
A low-growing tropical foliage plant famous for the nightly ritual that gives it its name — its…
Purple Shamrock
Oxalis triangularis
A bulb-grown houseplant grown for its deep burgundy-purple, triangular leaflets that fold up like…
Rattlesnake Plant
Goeppertia insignis (syn. Calathea lancifolia)
A striking prayer plant grown for its long, wavy-edged leaves splashed with alternating large and…
Red Prayer Plant
Maranta leuconeura
A low-growing tropical groundcover named for the nightly ritual that folds its leaves upward like…
Rex Begonia
Begonia rex-cultorum
Grown for its foliage rather than its flowers, the Rex Begonia dazzles with swirled, asymmetric…
Rubber Plant
Ficus elastica
A bold, upright tree-like ficus with thick, glossy leaves that unfurl from rosy-pink sheaths in…
Snake Plant
Dracaena trifasciata
The tough, architectural snake plant (formerly Sansevieria trifasciata) sends up stiff, upright…
Spider Plant
Chlorophytum comosum
The classic arching grassy houseplant that sends out wiry stems tipped with baby plantlets — the…
Stromanthe Triostar
Stromanthe sanguinea 'Triostar'
A flamboyant prayer-plant relative grown for leaves splashed in cream, green, and pink, with vivid…
Sweetheart Hoya
Hoya kerrii
The wax plant with thick, heart-shaped leaves — usually sold as a single rooted leaf in a tiny…
White Nerve Plant
Fittonia albivenis (Argyroneura Group)
A low, spreading tropical groundcover from the Peruvian rainforest floor, named for the bright…
Yucca
Yucca elephantipes
A bold, architectural desert plant grown indoors for its thick woody trunk and crown of stiff…
ZZ Plant
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
The ZZ plant sends up glossy, dark-green stems lined with thick, waxy leaflets that look almost…
Zebrina Wandering Dude
Tradescantia zebrina
A fast, trailing creeper grown for its iridescent leaves — silver-striped on top, vivid purple…
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