General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Suitable Locations: Houseplant
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem

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Common names
  • Coleus
  • Painted Nettle
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Coleus scutellarioides
  • Synonym: Solenostemon scutellarioides
  • Synonym: Plectranthus scutellarioides

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Location: Holden Louisiana 
Date: April 29, 2022
Found this with someone’s discarded plants, I was one happy mom

Date: 2008-06-25
Location: Northwest N.J.
Date: 2019-04-25
Location: West Central Tx 
Date: 2023-06-05

Date: 2012-04-18

Date: 2012-04-18
Location: Schwartz Greenhouse, Romulus, MI
Date: 2009-05-08
Location: Schwartz Greenhouse, Romulus, MI
Date: 2009-05-08

Date: 2012-04-18
Location: NJ
Date: 9/17/11
Location: Schwartz Greenhouse, Romulus, MI
Date: 2009-05-08
Location: Denver, CO
Date: Apr 29, 2012
Tagawa Nursery
Location: Denver, CO
Date: Apr 29, 2012
Tagawa Nursery
Location: Cincinnati, Oh
Date: September 2011
Rustic orange stayed pretty small for me
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2007-07-16
Location: My garden in Kentucky
Date: 2008-06-21
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Comments:
  • Posted by sandnsea2 (Cape Cod, MA, USA - Zone 7a) on Oct 1, 2011 2:20 PM concerning plant:
    Can't say enough good things about this plant, as well as Coleuses as a whole. We had a dry, droughty summer and I very rarely watered this plant. It did fine, even thrived. Coleus is a marvelous xeric plant.

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