Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award |
Trial |
Region | Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome | Cleome | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| ColorBlaze® El Brighto Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| ColorBlaze® Royale Pineapple Brandy™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Black ornamental sweet potato vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Sweet Caroline Medusa™ Green Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Shadowstorm® ornamental sweet potato vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Top Performer | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire Cascade® Red Begonia | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire® White Begonia benariensis | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire® Rose Begonia benariensis | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Surefire® Red II Begonia benariensis | Begonia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| White Knight® II sweet alyssum Lobularia | Lobularia | Perfect Score | Boerner Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2025 | 5b | 4 |
| Silver Mound Wormwood Artemisia schmidtiana | Artemisia | Best Perennials 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 |
| Texas Parking Lot Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Annuals of Note | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Sky Fire Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| Freckles Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | 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 |
| Persian Shield Strobilanthes dyerianus | Strobilanthes | Top Picks | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2004 | 6a | 6 |
| 'Moonbeam' Threadleaf Coreopsis Coreopsis verticillata | Coreopsis | Best Perennials at the Zoo | Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden | Midwest | 2005 | 6a | 6 |
