Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2020 | 6b | 8 |
| Butterfly Deep Pink Pentas lanceolata | Pentas | Flame Proof | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2006 | 8a | 9 |
| Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2021 | 8a | 9 |
| Truffula™ Pink Globe Amaranth Gomphrena pulchella | Gomphrena | Perfect Score | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2022 | 8a | 9 |
| Supertunia Vista® Cool Jazz® Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2025 | 6b | 8 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer - In Ground - Sun | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2024 | 8a | 9 |
| ColorBlaze® Mini Me™ Watermelon Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Flame Proof | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2025 | 8a | 9 |
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia | Euphorbia | Rising Star | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2007 | 8a | 9 |
| Daredevil® Mulberry Zonal Geranium Pelargonium zonale | Pelargonium | 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 |
| Dragon Wing® Red Angelwing Begonia Begonia | Begonia | Flame Proof | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2005 | 8a | 9 |
| ColorBlaze® Cherry Drop Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer - Hanging Basket - Sun | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2024 | 8a | 9 |
| Graceful Grasses® King Tut® Egyptian Papyrus Cyperus papyrus | Cyperus | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2010 | 6b | 8 |
| Suncredible® Saturn™ Sunflower Helianthus | Helianthus | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2021 | 6b | 8 |
| 'Prima Angelina' Stonecrop Sedum rupestre | Sedum | North Texas Winners Circle | Dallas Arboretum | Southwest | 2004 | 8a | 9 |
| Supertunia Mini Vista® Midnight Petunia | Petunia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2022 | 6b | 8 |
| Big Leaf Creeping Wire Vine Muehlenbeckia complexa | Muehlenbeckia | Perfect Score | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2022 | 6b | 8 |
| White Knight® II sweet alyssum Lobularia | Lobularia | Top Performer | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2025 | 6b | 8 |
| ColorBlaze® Mini Me™ Watermelon Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Perfect Score | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2022 | 6b | 8 |
| ColorBlaze® El Brighto Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Perfect Score | Oklahoma State University Botanical Gardens | Southwest | 2021 | 6b | 8 |
