Best Regional Plants
| Plant Name | Genus | Award | Trial |
Region |
Year | Trial Cold Hardiness | Trial Heat Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Best Selection | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2010 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Lemon Coral® Sedum mexicanum | Sedum | Top Perfomer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2012 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum purpureum | Pennisetum | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2011 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| 'Black Scallop' Bugleweed Ajuga reptans | Ajuga | Bronze Medal | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2006 | 5b | 6 |
| Sweet Caroline Red Hawk™ Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea hybrid | Ipomoea | Top Performer | University of Missouri | Midwest | 2023 |
5a 5b |
7 |
| Limon Blush™ Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Best Selection | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2010 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Blushing Princess® Sweet Alyssum Lobularia hybrid | Lobularia | Top Perfomer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2012 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Graceful Grasses® Blue Mohawk® Soft Rush Juncus inflexus | Juncus | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2011 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Graceful Grasses® King Tut® Egyptian Papyrus Cyperus papyrus | Cyperus | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2011 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| ColorBlaze® El Brighto Coleus scutellarioides | Coleus | Top Performer | University of Missouri | Midwest | 2021 |
5a 5b |
7 |
| Dalina® Grande Castillo Dahlia hybrid | Dahlia | Top Perfomer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2012 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Superbells® Tangerine Punch™ Calibrachoa hybrid | Calibrachoa | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2018 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Margarita Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas | Ipomoea | Bronze Medal | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2006 | 5b | 6 |
| Diamond Frost® Euphorbia hybrid | Euphorbia | Silver Medal | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2007 | 5b | 6 |
| Supertunia Mini Vista® Scarlet Petunia hybrid | Petunia | Top Performer | University of Missouri | Midwest | 2023 |
5a 5b |
7 |
| Graceful Grasses® Baby Tut® Umbrella Grass Cyperus involucratus | Cyperus | Bronze Medal | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2007 | 5b | 6 |
| Señorita Rosalita® Spider Flower Cleome hybrid | Cleome | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2011 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| GoldDust® Mecardonia hybrid | Mecardonia | Top Performer | University of Wisconsin | Midwest | 2010 |
5a 5b |
4 5 |
| Graceful Grasses® King Tut® Egyptian Papyrus Cyperus papyrus | Cyperus | Bronze Medal | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2007 | 5b | 6 |
| Efanthia Wood Spurge Euphorbia amygdaloides hybrid | Euphorbia | Top Performer | University of Illinois-Champaign County Master Gardeners | Midwest | 2005 | 5b | 6 |
