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Unknown Drought Smart Plants

Find the Name of Your Mystery Plant here...

Many times you visit a garden and see a fabulous plant that makes you salivate, but finding a name so you can successfully grow these mystery plants is a difficult task. Once you've lost the labels to your new plants, your memory may be faulty and you can't for the life of you remember the name of the plant. Don't worry, it's a common problem! I can help a bit with finding out the names or identities of your plants - in many cases, a small hint here and there can trigger a memory, or a similarity to another related plant makes it easier to pin down what you have.

Tell me about your unknown Drought Smart Plant here, and get an ID and some basic tips on their preferred conditions.

If I don't know what your plant is, sometimes a visitor to this site will be able to identify it. Join the community and pitch in - you may know about plants on this page, so please tell!

If you have a succulent plant to identify, see the succulent plant identification page.

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What is this?  This plant has green/red leaves and I can't find out anything about it.Please help me?


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Hi Kenneth, this one has me stumped....

Help me identify the flower  I saw this flower in London and thought it was beautiful. Can someone tell me the name? I want to plant some if it could survive in this climate.


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Plant used in vegatative reproduction project  bamboo like stalks, minimal rooting system, palmitic leaf grouping, leaves fall off easily and frequently. Purchased at Target store in Tempe, Arizona....

Unknown plant  I would appreciate it if someone could identify this plant for me. It was growing in the arid region of a botanical garden and there was no identification ...

very large, soft fuzzy flower  it has a large thick stem, lots of closely bunched long leaves, reminds me of an artichoke with the way the flower starts with the alternating layering ...

Bought this at HEB and it wasn't labeled...  It has thick, fuzzy leaves and produces a very pretty flower that hangs off of the end of a long brown stem (and looks similar to Clitoria). I put a picture ...

Long purple leaves, pink flowers  Found it in a little nursery and forgot to ask what it was called.


Drought Smart Plants reply:

Hi Dodie, based on the clasping leaves (where they ...

plant project  This plant is white and looks like cotton - it has many blooms.

Just found along a fence like a vine  Seems vine like, lots of flowers on this vine... the picture was taken in August in Pensacola Fl.


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Scott, what you'...

Pig's ear?  This plant was my mother's and we inherited it. She called it a lamb's ear, but I know that's not right. The closest I can find is a pig's ear, but that'...

Please help me identify the plant  Low to ground. Appearance of dew-like clear and raspberry covered orbs and white flowers (that look like coral "flowers").

tiny 5 point star flowers with purple and yellow inside  The leaves are blue-green with stalks of tiny flowers. It seems to be wild.

Plants with very green leaves  I found these plants in a yard and they really spread but are not a vine. im very curious as to what they are.


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Hi Debbie,...

lavender color  this is a lavender flower that little hairs come out at the end.


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This is one of the most reliable annual plants available,...

Long-stemmed common looking succulent  This plant has a long, skinny stem with long skinny green leaves (with a few bits of red) on the top. It's been identified by several people as a succulent,...

Do you know what this plant is?  Hi There,
I have this plant, and I have no idea what it is.
I don't know what the best position for it would be. Indoor or outdoor, or how often to water ...

Abandoned "Friendship Plant"  Found in the hallway with a note attached. Poor abandoned plant. The stout stem leads to a 2 inch cactus-ey center, where broad, dark waxy 6 inch long ...

alternate green and white waxy leaves, plant about 30" tall  Please identify this plant for me. I've had it for 20 years but now it is failing. I need a new one, but I have never known what it is called.

It has ...

purple succulent with small pink flowers  A friend gave me cuttings of this purple succulent from her garden. She said that she didn't know what it was but it is a happy and prolific plant with ...

Marianne's Lilies  We live in Media PA and after 5 years of living in this location my husband noticed this strange grass and stopped mowing around it. We now have what appears ...

Wild Beautiful Orchid  I came across this gorgeous flower, and I'm pretty sure it's an orchid of some type. There were several growing in a group, three in a group together,...

Found Succulent Plant  I found the original plant at place in Olalla, BC.

The owner had taken some of them and potted for sale. They were growing in between the cracks ...


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