Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist® Blue Flossflower Ageratum hybrid | Ageratum | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2021 | 6a | 6 |
| Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Mahogany™ Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea hybrid | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Heart to Heart® 'Radiance' Sun or Shade Caladium Caladium hortulanum | Caladium | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2020 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Hall of Fame | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2012 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Dipt in Wine Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Surefire® Cherry Cordial™ Begonia x hybrida | Begonia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2022 | 6a | 6 |
| Mystic Illusion Dahlia hybrid | Dahlia | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Vista® Snowdrift™ Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2019 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Zoo's Best Annuals | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Superbells® Honeyberry™ Calibrachoa hybrid | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2019 | 6a | 6 |
| Summer Wave® Trailing Large Blue Wishbone Flower Torenia hybrid | Torenia | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Heart to Heart® 'Raspberry Moon' Shade Caladium Caladium hortulanum | Caladium | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2021 | 6a | 6 |
| Persian Shield Strobilanthes dyerianus | Strobilanthes | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Island Giants™ Coffee Cups elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2023 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Vista® Paradise Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2018 | 6a | 6 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome hybrid | Cleome | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Rockapulco® Purple Double Impatiens Impatiens walleriana | Impatiens | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
