Plant Finder

Use Plant Finder to find one or more plants that match some set of characteristics of interest. You might use it to find a plant for your garden, or to help identify a plant you have seen.

PlantFinder's database currently includes 1,555,827 attributes for 209,411 of the 1,423,693 plants on this site. Big numbers, but our database is incomplete (VERY incomplete for leaf shape, margin, and venation), and there will always be other plants that also match your specs. The fewer specs you provide, the more plants this tool will find for you.

For definitions of any of these terms, click the term: Annual • Biennial • Evergreen • Deciduous • Forb/Herb • Full Shade • Full Sun • Graminoid • Lichenous • Liana • NonVascular • Perennial • Shrub • SubShrub • Tree • Vine

For illustrated definitions of leaf shape, margin, and venation, click here.

Show me plants with these characteristics: Special Qualities... Deer resistant Salt tolerant Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies Drought tolerant Heat tolerant Fragrant Smog tolerant Humidity tolerant   Appearance... Evergreen/Deciduous: -- Don't Care -- Evergreen Semi-Evergreen Deciduous Flower color: -- Don't Care -- Apricot Black Blue Brown Coral (pinkish orange) Cream (yellowish white) Green Indigo (blue violet) Lilac Magenta (red blue) Maroon (purple brown) Mauve (grayed pink-lilac) Orange Pale Pink Pink Purple Red Red-purple Rose Violet (bluish purple) White Yellow Duration: -- Don't Care -- Annual Biennial Perennial Habit: -- Don't Care -- Forb/herb Graminoid Lichenous Liana Nonvascular Shrub Subshrub Tree Vine Bloom period: -- Don't Care -- January February March April May June July August September October November December   Leaf Morphology... Leaf Shape: -- Don't Care -- acicular - needle shaped acuminate - tapering to a long point alternate - leaflets arranged alternately aristate - with a spine-like tip bipinnate - leaflets also pinnate cordate - heart-shaped, stem in cleft cuneate - wedge shaped, acute base deltoid - triangular digitate - with finger-like lobes elliptic - oval-shaped, small or no point even pinnate - leaflets in rows, two at tip falcate - hooked or sickle shaped flabelate - fan shaped hastate - triangular with basal lobes lanceolate - pointed at both ends linear - parallel margins, elongate lobed - deeply indented margins obcordate - heart-shaped, stem at point obovate - egg-shaped, narrow at base obtuse - bluntly tipped odd pinnate - leaflets in rows, one at tip opposite - leaflets in adjacent pairs orbicular - circular ovate - egg-shaped, wide at base palmate- like a hand with fingers pedate - divided lateral lobes peltate - stem attached centrally perfoliate - stem seeming to pierce leaf pinnatisect - deep, opposite lobing reniform - kidney shaped rhomboid - diamond shaped rosette - leaflets in tight circular rings spatulate - spoon shaped spear-shaped - pointed, barbed base subulate - tapering point, awl-shaped trifoliate leaflets in threes tripinnate - leaflets also bipinnate truncate - squared-off apex tripinnate - leaflets in threes unifoliate - having a single leaf whorled - rings of 3 or more leaflets Leaf Margin: -- Don't Care -- ciliate - with fine hairs crenate - with rounded teeth dentate - with symmetrical teeth denticulate - with fine dentition doubly serrate serrate with sub-teeth lobate - indented, but not to midline serrate - teeth forward-pointing serrulate with fine serration sinuate - with wave-like indentations smooth - even throughout spiny - with sharp stiff points undulate - widely wavy Leaf Venation: -- Don't Care -- arcuate - secondary veins bending toward apex cross-venulate - small veins connecting secondary veins dichotomous veins branching symmetrically in pairs longitudinal - veins aligned mostly along long axis of leaf palmate - several primary veins diverging from a point parallel - veins arranged axially, not intersecting pinnate - secondary veins paired oppositely reticulate - smaller veins forming a network rotate - radiating veins in peltate leaves Growth... Sunlight: -- Don't Care -- Full Sun Part Sun, Part Shade Full Shade Either Sun or Shade USDA Hardiness Zone: -- Don't Care -- 1. Below -50°F 2a. -50 to -45 F 2b. -45 to -40 F 3a. -40 to -35 F 3b. -35 to -30 F 4a. -30 to -25 F 4b. -25 to -20 F 5a. -20 to -15 F 5b. -15 to -10 F 6a. -10 to -5 F 6b. -5 to 0 F 7a. 0 to 5 F 7b. 5 to 10 F 8a. 10 to 15 F 8b. 15 to 20 F 9a. 20 to 25 F 9b. 25 to 30 F 10a. 30 to 35 F 10b. 35 to 40 F 11. Above 40° F Growth Rate: -- Don't Care -- Slow Moderate Fast Minimum pH: -- Don't Care -- 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Maximum pH:  -- Don't Care -- 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 10.0   Format Results... and list plants per page (maximum 1000).