The Master House Plant List

Hello, dear reader. One of the first things I did when I started this blog was to compile a list of all my plants and their binomial Latin names. (1)

With that said, I present to you,

My House Plants

1. Spathiphyllum wallisi
2. Dieffenbachia amoena
3. Cordyline fruticosa
4. Cyrtomium falcatum
5. Haworthia attentuata
6. Echeveria elegans
7. Graptopetalum sp. (2)
8. Hypoestes phyllostacha
9. Citrus x limon (3)
10. Dracaena deremensis var. 'Janet Craig' (4)
11. Nematanthus sp.
12. Epipremnum aureum
13. Primula vulgaris
14. Cyclamen hederifolium
15. Cucumis sativus
16. Pisum sativum
17. Pachira glabra

1. Rarely will I refer to a plant by its common name, because it's a horribly confusing and arbitrary naming system. A plant can have several different common names, or worse yet, the same name can refer to multiple different species of plant! To eliminate ambiguity, I use the genus and species name. Besides, it's a good practice to know which genus a plant belongs to (or even higher classifications) because that gives you a wealth of information about its characteristics and what other species it's related to. There are some genus' of succulent (Haworthia, Echeveria, just to name a few) with dozens of very species that can look wildly different or barely distinguishable from each other.

2. When I write "sp.", this means that I know the genus to which the plant belongs, but I'm not sure of the exact species.

3. Lemon is notated as Citrus x limon because lemons are a citrus hybrid; the 'x' in a species name indicates a hybrid.

4. In the case of Dracaena deremensis, the plant I have is of the cultivar 'Janet Craig', so I've included that as well