Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus |
Award |
Trial | Region | Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ColorBlaze® Torchlight® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer in Ground Annuals | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2021 |
4a 4b |
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| Unplugged® Pink Salvia hybrid | Salvia | Top Performer in Ground Annuals | South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens | Midwest | 2021 |
4a 4b |
|
| Bright Lights™ Horizon™ Sunset African Daisy Osteospermum hybrid | Osteospermum | Top Performer, A Top 10 Pick | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2022 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| ColorBlaze® Lime Time® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer- Shade | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2024 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| ColorBlaze® Mini Me™ Watermelon Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer- Shade | University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids | Midwest | 2024 |
3a 3b |
3 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Catalina® Gilded Grape™ Wishbone Flower Torenia hybrid | Torenia | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Mystic Illusion Dahlia hybrid | Dahlia | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Catalina® Gilded Grape™ Wishbone Flower Torenia hybrid | Torenia | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Mystic Illusion Dahlia hybrid | Dahlia | Top Performers | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Dipt in Wine Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' | Pennisetum | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Tricolor Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Margarita Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Black Heart Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Persian Shield Strobilanthes dyerianus | Strobilanthes | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
