Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Hall of Fame | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2012 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2009 | 5b | 5 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Unplugged® Pink Salvia | Salvia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2024 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Zoo's Best Annuals | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Island Giants® Heart of the Jungle® elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2009 | 5b | 5 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top 10 Plant | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2020 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Cherry Brandy® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2018 | 5b | 5 |
| Diamond Snow® Euphorbia | Euphorbia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia® Lovie Dovie™ Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2020 | 5b | 5 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome | Cleome | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2009 | 5b | 5 |
| Angelface® White III Summer Snapdragon Angelonia | Angelonia | Favorites | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 6a | 6 |
| Double Up™ Red Begonia semperflorens | Begonia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2020 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Mini Vista® Violet Star Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Cherry Brandy® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2020 | 5b | 5 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome | Cleome | Best Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2009 | 5b | 5 |
| Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® II Petunia | Petunia | Silver Medal | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2008 | 5b | 5 |
| Supertunia Mini Vista® White Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2018 | 5b | 5 |
| Limon Blush™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2008 | 5b | 5 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Hot® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Perfect Score All Season | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2019 | 6a | 6 |
