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Plants for USDA Zone 10

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62 matches for Zone 10

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Tall snake plant rosettes with green cross-banded leaves

Houseplants

Snake Plant

Dracaena trifasciata

Snake Plant grows as a stemless clump of water-storing, sword-shaped leaves.

Outdoors in Zones 10 to 12
Mature Southern magnolia on a lawn beside a house, its dense pyramidal crown of glossy dark evergreen leaves carrying dozens of open creamy white flowers, with the lower branches sweeping almost to the grass

Trees

Southern Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora

Southern Magnolia is not just a flowering tree. It is a broad evergreen anchor that throws heavy shade, glossy leaves, giant…

USDA Zones 6-10
Spider plant with striped arching leaves and hanging baby plantlets in bright indirect light

Houseplants

Spider Plant

Chlorophytum comosum

A spider plant is a forgiving, pet-safe houseplant that sends out runners with baby plantlets when light, roots, and maturity…

Zone 9-11 outdoors, indoors anywhere
Yellow squash blossoms and developing squash fruit on broad garden vines

Vegetables

Squash

Cucurbita spp.

Grow Squash by deciding whether you want tender summer fruit or mature winter storage fruit, then matching space, pollination…

Warm-season annual, USDA Zones 3-10
Mounted staghorn fern with shield fronds wrapped around moss on a wooden wall plaque

Houseplants

Staghorn Fern

Platycerium bifurcatum

A staghorn fern is a pet-safe epiphytic fern grown on a mount, basket, or plaque.

Zone 10-12 outdoors, indoors anywhere
String of Hearts trailing succulent in a hanging pot, many wiry strands of small heart-shaped leaves marbled silver and green cascading down

Houseplants

String of Hearts

Ceropegia woodii

String of Hearts is a trailing succulent vine with small heart-shaped leaves, silver on top and purple underneath, and bead-like…

Zone 10-12 outdoors, houseplant elsewhere
String of Turtles with small patterned round leaves trailing over a pot rim.

Houseplants

String of Turtles

Peperomia prostrata

String of Turtles is Peperomia prostrata, a small trailing plant with rounded leaves marked like turtle shells.

NC State lists outdoor Zones 10 to 12
Sweet potato vines with heart-shaped leaves spreading across a raised garden ridge in full sun

Vegetables

Sweet Potato

Ipomoea batatas

Sweet Potato grows from rooted slips rather than seed tubers, hides its entire crop under a vine mat until harvest, and only…

Warm-season annual, Zones 3-10
Close view of tall fescue turf blades in a home lawn.

Lawn Grasses

Tall Fescue

Festuca arundinacea (Schedonorus arundinaceus)

Homeowners across Zone 3-10 lean on Tall Fescue for a cool-season lawn that stays green without babying it every weekend.

Zone 3-10 (cool-season performer)
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