Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ColorBlaze® Strawberry Drop Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2018 |
4a 4b |
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| Island Giants™ Coffee Cups elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2020 | 5b | 5 |
| Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® II Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Perfect Score | University of Missouri | Midwest | 2024 |
5a 5b |
7 |
| ColorBlaze® Torchlight® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2021 | 5b | 5 |
| Superbells® Evening Star™ Calibrachoa hybrid | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2018 |
4a 4b |
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| Supertunia Vista® Jazzberry® Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2022 | 5b | 5 |
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia hybrid | Euphorbia | Silver Medal | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2008 | 5b | 5 |
| Icicles Licorice Plant Helichrysum thianschanicum | Helichrysum | Top Performer | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2005 | 5b | 6 |
| Sweet Caroline Raven™ Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2018 |
4a 4b |
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| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Top Performer | Iowa State - Reiman Gardens | Midwest | 2011 |
5a 5b |
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| Supertunia Vista® Silverberry Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Perfomer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2012 |
4a 4b |
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| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome hybrid | Cleome | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2009 | 5b | 5 |
| Lemon Coral® Sedum mexicanum | Sedum | Silver Medal | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2007 | 5b | 6 |
| Dalina® Grande Castillo Dahlia hybrid | Dahlia | Top Perfomer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2012 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performer | Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum - Springfield | Midwest | 2009 | 5b | 5 |
| Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® II Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2011 |
4a 4b |
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| GoldDust® Mecardonia hybrid | Mecardonia | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2010 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Superbells® Cherry Star Calibrachoa hybrid | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2011 |
4a 4b |
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| Sweet Caroline Red Hawk™ Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea hybrid | Ipomoea | Top Performer | University of Missouri | Midwest | 2023 |
5a 5b |
7 |
| Snow Princess® Sweet Alyssum Lobularia hybrid | Lobularia | Top Performer | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2011 |
4a 4b |



