Home Indoor Flower with Purple Leaves

A room flower with purple leaves has long been not something unique and unusual. Such plants, even without bright lush inflorescences, are able to decorate the house throughout the year, while occupying a worthy place in the collection of any grower. Indoor plants with purple leaves are characterized by great species diversity. In this shade can be painted not only leaves that are smooth or fleecy, but also the stem.

Names and brief description of indoor flowers with purple leaves

The unusual color of the leaves can be of various shades: from light lilac to rich purple. It can be homogeneous, can be located immediately on both sides of the sheet, but there are options where such a color is presented on one side - only from above or from below, while the other part remains familiar green. Purple on both sides is the well-known sour (night moth) with small triangular leaves, iris (which needs a large amount of light to maintain color brightness). Monotonous are the views of Herbst and Iresle Perple Lady.

Stromanthus as a flower garden decoration

The upper side of the leaves is purple.

Among the whole variety of indoor flowers, painted in this unusual, unusual shade only from above, the most popular is alternating hemigraph. In nature, there are more than 100 species of this plant. At home, ampel and semi-ampel forms are grown. It can be perennial or annual. The plant is whimsical, but it looks very impressive.

Oxalis Oxalis

With proper care, the ovate dentate leaves turn purple on top (its saturation varies depending on the lighting), remaining light green on the back.

Hemigraphy alternating

The underside of the leaves is purple.

There are other plants with leaves purple only below. The most common among them:

• rheo is the most popular plant, whose lower part of the leaves has a purple color. It attracts gardeners with its unusual appearance and lack of pickiness in care. In addition, reo also blooms beautifully;
• ginura. There are several varieties, but the most popular and unpretentious is the wicker ginura variety. This is an ampelous look with velvety leaflets. The leaves resemble nettles in shape, but are distinguished by the unusual color in the lower part;

Flowering reo

• purple. This is a close relative of the tradescantia, and therefore caring for it is quite problematic. It is a long vine. Leaves on top are olive reddish in color and slightly shaggy, and below are smooth, rich purple.

Home plants with purple spots or stripes on the leaves.

Indoor flowers with a heterogeneous color look very impressive: with spots or stripes, marbled. The most attractive of them:

• royal begonia. This is one of the leaf begonia hybrids grown not to admire lush inflorescences, but to enjoy foliage of an unusual, spotty color all year round. The sheet part has an asymmetric shape and reaches a length of up to 15 cm. The pattern is always bright, representing a complex pattern of green, purple, silver and burgundy colors. Royal begonia is a very whimsical plant that needs additional attention;

Royal begonia

• Zebrina purpus. One of five types of zebrins suitable for growing at home. Leaves are oval in shape with pointed edges and a pronounced striped coloration. The colors of the stripes are white with lilac-burgundy, which looks very unusual and attractive. Blooms with small lavender flowers;
• Linden tires. This is a plant whose leaves on top are painted in dark purple, with reddish stripes and streaks.

Iresine Linden

Home plants with purple flowers.

A purple home flower can delight not only with the color of the leaves, but also with beautiful inflorescences. There are a lot of plants blooming like that. The most popular among them are:

• Saintpaulia (uzambara violet). Violet - a name familiar to everyone, at the mention of this word, it immediately seems to be a small plant with pubescent leaves of dark green color and medium-sized flowers. They have many species and hybrid varieties. In many types of violets, flowers have a palette of colors from light lilac to deep purple, they can be simple and terry;
• gloxinia is an equally popular plant. Perennial, tuberous with an original bell-shaped flower shape. Inside, they are bright in color, bordered on the edge with a white stripe, velvety to the touch;
• orchid. This plant is now at the peak of popularity. Large flowers of various shades are located on a high thin trunk. The flowering period is long, the inflorescences are very elegant and unusual, similar to butterfly wings. Lilac orchids are considered the most unpretentious and most resistant to disease.

Orchid flower

Indoor flowers with purple stems

Flowers grown on the windowsill very often have purple “trunks”. There are representatives of home flora that have such original stems:

• netcreasia is purple. Belongs to the family of Tradescantes, therefore, it requires a lot of attention. It is grown as an ampel and semi-ampel plant. It differs not only in completely purple leaves, but also in stems of the same color, as well as lilac small flowers. The shoots are long, grow up to 1 m;
• tradescantia is violet. An interesting plant with fleshy purple stems and leaves that accumulate moisture, reaching 20 cm in length. Blooms with small pink flowers. The growth form is semi-ampel or bush;
• Columnae Sulfurea is one of the varieties of column (there are about 200 in total), which, like other representatives of this species, has only a hanging variant of growth. Creepers reach up to 1 m in length. All kolumnei need a long daylight and bright lighting. These factors ensure their flowering and fruiting. Sulfurea columna flowers are tubular, yellow. After flowering, white fruits form on the plant. The stems of this flower are reddish-violet, as is the lower part of the leaf.

Columnae Sulfurea

Purple indoor flowers can decorate any room and bring a little variety to each interior. And it does not matter at all whether it will be painted in this color in whole or in part. The most important thing is spectacularity and unusualness. As a rule, such plants are not too finicky, and all they need is as much sunlight as possible so that the color is brighter.