Floriculture Plant Identification
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Saintpaulia ionantha cv.
African Violet
• Colors: blue to violet to red flowers in
groupings of 3
• Characteristics: heart-shaped leaves with
smooth margin; leaf texture-glossy, shiney
• Type of plant: house plant
• Size: 6” tall
• Growth requirements: average water
needs; between 60-70 degrees-tough &
hardy
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Saintpaulia ionantha cv.
African Violet
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Salvia splendens cv.
Salvia
• Colors: blues, reds, oranges, pink
yellows, purple, white
• Characteristics: flower spikes, grows
upright clumps
• Type of plant: annual
• Size: 12”
• Growth requirements: can handle frost
• Other: used in floral designs, culinary arts,
& medicine
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Salvia splendens cv.
Salvia
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Sansevieria trifasciata cv.
Snake Plant
• Other names: sword Plant, sansevieria,
mother-in-law’s tongue, manolin
• Colors: green & tan variegations
• Characteristics: leaves long and green,
look like a snake’s head
• Type of plant: succulent, tropical
houseplant
• Size: 6-24” tall
• Growth requirements: average water, sun
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Sansevieria trifasciata cv.
Snake Plant
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Saxifraga stolonifera
Strawberry Plant
• Colors: white & blue/green leaves
• Characteristics: velvet/fuzzy texture;
colorful lush plant
• Type of plant: groundcover; perennial
• Size: 6-12”
• Growth requirements: average water; light
to full shade
• Other: Belongs to the genus Frageria, a
member of the rose family
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Saxifraga stolonifera
Strawberry Plant
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Schlumbergera bridgesii
Christmas Cactus
• Other names: holiday cactus, zygocactus
• Colors: pink, red, coral, white
• Characteristics: grown for foliage,
evergreen, smooth textured
• Type of plant: tropical, tender perennial
• Size: 18-24”
• Growth requirements: sun to partial
shade; indoor; average water needs
• Other: not drought tolerant as other
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Schlumbergera bridgesii
Christmas Cactus
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Schlumbergera truncata cv.
Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus
• Other names: crab cactus; zygocactus
• Colors: white,
• Characteristics: blue-green rubbery
leaves, toothed margin
• Type of plant: tropical succulent
• Size: 6-18”
• Growth requirements: average water
needs
• Other: bright direct sunlight, but only for a
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Schlumbergera truncata cv.
Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus
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Senecio cineraria ‘Diamond’
Diamond Dusty Miller
• Other names: silver ragwort
• Colors: light green
• Characteristics: grown for silvery light
green foliage; velvet, fuzzy texture
• Type of plant: bedding plant
• Size: 6-12”
• Growth requirements:
• Other: used as annuals but will flower if
they survive the winter and can be treated
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Senecio cineraria ‘Diamond’
Diamond Dusty Miller
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Senecio x hybridus cv.
Florist’s Cineraria
Other names:
Colors: various, bi-colored
Characteristics: upright flowering
Type of plant: flowering houseplant
Size: under 24”
Growth requirements: average water;
partial shade
• Other:
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Senecio x hybridus cv.
Florist’s Cineraria
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Sinningia speciosa fiana
Group cv.---Gloxinia
• Other names: Florist’s Gloxinia
• Colors: red, purple, blue, pink & bicolored
• Characteristics: bell shaped flower; green
rounded leaves
• Type of plant: tropical plant; bedding
• Size: 6-12”
• Growth requirements: partial shade, water
when soil is dry
• Other: don’t waterlog; related to African
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Sinningia speciosa fiana
Group cv.
Gloxinia
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Sinningia speciosa fiana
Group cv.
Gloxinia
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Solanum pseudocapsicum cv.
Jerusalem Cherry
• Other names: winter cherry, madeira
winter cherry
• Colors: white flowers; red berries
• Characteristics:
• Type of plant: houseplant
• Size: 8-12”
• Growth requirements: high water
requirement while growing
• Other:
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Solanum pseudocapsicum cv.
Jerusalem Cherry
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Spathiphyllum clevelandii
White Athurium, Peace Lily
• Other names:
• Colors: white
• Characteristics: evergreen; shiny, glossy
textured; spadix & spathe; dark green,
spear shape leaves
• Type of plant: tropical houseplant
• Size:12-24”
• Growth requirements: light shade;
consistently moist soil
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Spathiphyllum clevelandii
White Athurium, Peace Lily
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Stephanotis floribunda
Stephanotis
• Other names: Madagascar jasmine;
Hawaiian wedding flower, wax flower
• Colors: white
• Characteristics: smooth, shiny & glossy
flower; leathery dark green leaves—3-5”
leaves
• Type of plant: tropical vine
• Size: 12-12’
• Growth requirements: average water,
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Stephanotis floribunda
Stephanotis
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Strelitzia reginae
Bird-of-Paradise
• Other names: crane flower
• Colors: orange and blue flower
• Characteristics: paddle shape, leathery
leaves; orange petals shaped like a beak
and a green leaf that cups the bloom
• Type of plant: tropical
• Size: 3’ tall
• Growth requirements: light shade,
average water
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Strelitzia reginae
Bird-of-Paradise
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Syngonium podophyllum
Nephthytis
• Other names: white-veined arrowhead
vine
• Colors: white, green variagation
• Characteristics: variegated, sliver/gray;
climbing vines with 3-parted leaves on
long petioles when mature
• Type of plant: houseplant; vine
• Size: 18-24”
• Growth requirements: consistently moist
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Syngonium podophyllum
Nephthytis
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Tagetes species cv.
Marigold
• Other names: French, New Mexico,
African marigold
• Colors: orange, yellow, mixed, red,
maroon, cream
• Characteristics: Lacy leaves & petals
• Type of plant: annual bedding plant
• Size: 6”-3’
• Growth requirements:
• Other: pungent odor; most common
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Tagetes species cv.
Marigold
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Tolmiea menziesii
Pickaback Plant
• Other names:
• Colors: bloom-maroon
• Characteristics: small tufted plant with
green-white and red flowers; attractive
fresh, green leaves speckled with gold
• Type of plant: perennial
• Size: 12-18”
• Growth requirements: shady, well drained
• Other: grows best stream banks
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Tolmiea menziesii
Pickaback Plant
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Tulipa cv.
Tulip
• Other names:
• Colors: various except blue
• Characteristics: long green stem with long
leaves and cup like bloom
• Type of plant: perennial; cut flower
• Size: 18-24” tall
• Growth requirements: warm environment;
water ever other day
• Other: early spring bulb
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Tulipa cv.
Tulip
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Vaccinium ovatum
Florist’s “Huckleberry”
• Other names: evergreen huckleberry
• Colors: blue berries; green leaves
• Characteristics: evergreen, glossy
dark green leaves; urn shaped, white
to pink flowers
• Type of plant: shrub; cut foliage
• Size: 2-3’
• Growth requirements: light full sun to
shade; soil moist but well drained & acidic
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Vaccinium ovatum
Florist’s “Huckleberry”
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Viola x wittrockiana cv.
(Garden) Pansy
• Other names:
• Colors: various
• Characteristics: five petal flower with
faces
• Type of plant: self-seeding annual
• Size: 6-12”
• Growth requirements: full sun to partial
shade
• Other:
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Viola x wittrockiana cv.
(Garden) Pansy
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Zebrina pendula cv.
Wandering Jew
• Other names:
• Colors: green with sliver, pink, purple
• Characteristics: leaves are elongated with
pointed tip and striped dark green and
silver, underside is purplish
• Type of plant: houseplant
• Size: 6-12”
• Growth requirements: regular water, full
shade, humid
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Zebrina pendula cv.
Wandering Jew
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Zinnia elegans
Zinnia
Other names:
Colors: various
Characteristics: many petals; wide bloom
Type of plant: annual
Size: 6”-3-4’
Growth requirements: full sun; moderate
water; well drained soil
• Other: flowers in late spring to early fall
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Zinnia elegans
Zinnia