Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Island Giants® Coffee Cups elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2010 | 6b | 8 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome | Cleome | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2008 | 6b | 8 |
| Island Giants® Heart of the Jungle® elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2009 | 6b | 8 |
| White Knight® II sweet alyssum Lobularia | Lobularia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2025 | 6b | 8 |
| Island Giants® Coffee Cups elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2008 | 6b | 8 |
| ColorBlaze® Torchlight® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2019 | 8a | 9 |
| Sweet Caroline Upside™ Key Lime Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Flame Proof & Top Performer | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2025 | 8a | 9 |
| Summer Wave® Trailing Large Violet Wishbone Flower Torenia | Torenia | Flame Proof | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2005 | 8a | 9 |
| Superbells® Yellow Chiffon™ Calibrachoa | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2010 | 6b | 8 |
| Butterfly Deep Pink Pentas lanceolata | Pentas | Arboretum Approved | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2005 | 8a | 9 |
| Supertunia Vista® Silverberry Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2008 | 6b | 8 |
| Superbells® Honeyberry™ Calibrachoa | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2019 | 6b | 8 |
| Superbells® Yellow Chiffon™ Calibrachoa | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2010 | 6b | 8 |
| Amazel Basil® Sweet Italian Basil Ocimum basilicum | Ocimum | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2018 | 6b | 8 |
| Sweet Caroline Upside™ Black Coffee Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer - Container - Part Shade | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2024 | 8a | 9 |
| Island Giants® Coffee Cups elephant's ear Colocasia esculenta | Colocasia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2010 | 6b | 8 |
| Luscious® Royale Cosmo Lantana camara | Lantana | Perfect Score All Season | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2020 | 6b | 8 |
| ColorBlaze® Chocolate Drop Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Perfect Score All Season | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2018 | 6b | 8 |
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia | Euphorbia | Arboretum Approved | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2004 | 8a | 9 |
| White Chiffon® Rose of Sharon Hibiscus syriacus | Hibiscus | Top Pick | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2005 | 8a | 9 |
