Botanic Garden >> Gardening > >> Question and Answer >> Plant Species >> House Plants

Fuzzy-Leaved Ivy with Purple Blooms: Tradescantia sillamontana (Pussy Ears)

Your plant is Tradescantia sillamontana, aka pussy ears. Needs full sun to stay compact and woolly. Keep lightly moist, no standing water. Propagate by stem cuttings or division.

House Plants: Diagnosing and Treating Root Rot in Ivy; Plant ID: Sweet Olive (Osmanthus fragrans) and Its Care; Vacation-Proofing Your Pothos: How to Keep Devil's Ivy Alive for Two Weeks Without Watering; Lemon-Scented Plant Identification: Plectranthus Australis; Identifying and Caring for Gasteria bicolor (Formerly 'Wart Plant'); Identifying a Fast‑Growing Succulent: Crassula or Euphorbia?; Ivy in a Shallow Bonsai Pot: Repot to a Proper Container; String of Pearls (Senecio rowleyanus) ID & Care: Cactus Treatment; The "Resurrection Plant" and Other Drought-Surviving Species; Identifying Mistletoe Cactus (Rhipsalis)

Garden Articles

Plant Name Authority: The "(L.)" After Species Names

Mystery Brown Pellets in Basement: Scat Identification Needed

Identifying a Flowering Onion (Allium) from Central America

English Ivy (Hedera) Care: Light, Water, and Spider Mite Prevention

Identifying and Caring for False Aralia (Schefflera elegantissima)

Identifying "Dancing Dolphin Vine": Likely a Columnea Hybrid

Identifying "Weeping Blank Serious": It's Night-Blooming Cereus

Plants

Identifying a Slow-Growing, Fast-Blooming Bamboo-Like Plant

Planting on a 2-Foot Retaining Wall: Year-Round Compact Plants for Philadelphia

Understanding Botanical Author Abbreviations (e.g., L.)

Thrips on Nepenthes truncata: Systemic Insecticide Required

What Is a Pagoda Dragon Plant? Identification Needed

New Plant Identified as German Ivy (Senecio mikanioides)

Plant ID: Lavatera (Rose Mallow) – A Hibiscus Relative