Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award |
Trial |
Region | Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Mound Wormwood Artemisia schmidtiana | Artemisia | Best Perennials at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2005 | 6a | 6 |
| Margarita Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Rediculous® Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2018 | 6a | 6 |
| Gays Delight Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| ColorBlaze® Dipt in Wine Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® II Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
| Evergold Sedge Carex hachijoensis | Carex | Best Grasses at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2005 | 6a | 6 |
| Persian Shield Strobilanthes dyerianus | Strobilanthes | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Zoo's Best Annuals | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2011 | 6a | 6 |
| Autumn Joy Sedum, Stonecrop Hylotelephium spectabile | Hylotelephium | Best Annuals at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2005 | 6a | 6 |
| Freckles Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Dragon Wing® Pink Angelwing Begonia Begonia | Begonia | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Persian Shield Strobilanthes dyerianus | Strobilanthes | Best of the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2007 | 6a | 6 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Rockapulco® Rose Double Impatiens Impatiens walleriana | Impatiens | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
| Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass Calamagrostis acutiflora | Calamagrostis | Best Grasses at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2005 | 6a | 6 |
| Texas Parking Lot Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Annuals of Note | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Rockapulco® Purple II Double Impatiens Impatiens walleriana | Impatiens | Top Performer | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2010 | 6a | 6 |
