9 Dark Purple House Plants with their images | all things you should know

Here you can make your favorite list of dark purple house plants to add to your living spaces with pro tips for taking care of them.

People like to use deep purple in the decoration of houses because this color is associated with power, royalty, luxury, nobility, and ambition. Hence dark purple colors bring a stately sense to your living place.

Plants with deep purple colors are a good idea to add a powerful and sober view to the home. Therefore, in this article, I want to provide you with a list of the best indoor plants with dark purple foliage. In addition, I will tell you pro tips about their caring and show you stunning images of them.

most purple plants will turn into shades in green when put in low light areas. Here, we only talk about dark purple indoor plants, but if you are interested to a mix of green and purple colors, read “Green and purple house plants” to add them to your home.

Let’s get going to see 9 dark purple houseplants.

What are dark purple house plants?

1- ‘Dark Star’ Coleus

Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides ‘Dark Star’

The Coleuses are tropical indoor and outdoor plants with variegated foliage in shape, size, and color. The ‘Dark Star’ variety is a bushy-shaped Coleus with dark purple foliage and small blooms.

‘Dark Star’ Coleus caring requirements:

• This plant likes to thrive in full sun to part shade places.
• Although you must avoid overwatering in indoor conditions, it loves moist but well-drained soil.

2- Purple Oxalis

Other common names: False Shamrock or Purple Shamrock

Scientific name: Oxalis triangularis

The False Shamrock has clover-like deep purple leaves that fold at night and open in the morning. It is an easy-to-keep indoor plant.

False Shamrock caring requirements:

• warm, humid environments.
• a sunny area to thrive.
• moderately moist soil

3- Dark purple String of Rubies

Another common name is: Ruby Necklace

Scientific name: Othonna capensis

The dark purple Ruby Necklace is a beautiful trailing succulent with oblong bead-like leaves that can store water and off and then produce small daisy-like flowers.

Ruby Necklace caring requirements:

• Deep watering when the soil dries out.
• A almost warm and sunny place.
• Put it in a good drainage soil mixture.

4- The dark Purple Sweet Potato Vine

Scientific name: Ipomoea butatas

This plant is an easy-care, ornamental vine and has two common varieties with deep purple foliage, long, trailing stalks, and edible tubers:

• “Sweet Carolina ‘purple’
• Blackie

The dark Purple Sweet Potato Vine caring requirements:

• It is an ornamental indoor plant that thrives well in a sunny location in the house.
• Avoid over watering but keep its soil moist.
• If you are interested in a bushy plant, trim back its leggy stalks.

5- Deep Purple Spiderwort

Other common names: Inch Plant or Wandering Jew

Scientific name: Tradescantia zebrina deep purple

Deep purple Spiderwort is the trailing plant with very few caring requirements.

6- Royal Flush Plant

Another common name: split rock

Scientific name: Pleiospilos nelii

The royal flush plant is a wonderful succulent with thick and in twos dark purple leaves that resemble a splitting rock. This funky succulent can be a good idea for those searching for a small stunning house plant. It never grows up more than 3.5 inches. Royal Flush Plant is not a good choice for those with a brown thumb.

Royal Flush Plant caring requirements:

• Pot it in a light and good drainage soil mixture.
• Avoid over-watering and give it a little water only when the soil dries out.
• Put it in a sunny place in your house.

7- Purpleheart plant

Scientific name: Tradescantia pallida

The purple heart is another species of the Tradescantia genus. This beautiful trailing  plant has dark purple foliage with small purple to pink flowers.

Purpleheart caring requirements:

• Keep it in a humid and warm environment.
• To maintain its dark purple color put it in bright sunlight. If you keep it in the shade, the leaves will turn into shades of green hue.

8- Bromeliad Neoregelia “Purple Star”

Scientific name: Neoregelia carolinae

The member of the Neoregelia genus lives on trees as epiphytes in rainforests of South America and their roots are for supporting them. Hence this plant hates bright direct sunlight. The Purple Star variety has stunning dark purple leaves.

Bromeliad Neoregelia “Purple Star” caring requirements:

• This tropical plant loves warm and humid conditions.
• It cannot tolerate the hard-cold winters.
• Put it in a shade to moderate indirect sunlight places in your house.

9- The dark purple Cyclamen

Scientific name: Cyclamen sp.

This flowering houseplant has colorful blooms from white to deep purple. Cyclamens have an undersoil tuber, hence when the plant goes into its dormant stage, the roots and tuber are still alive.

Cyclamen caring requirements:

• During the dormant stage cut and remove the dead foliage.
• Watering it when the soil dries out but stop watering (or keep watering at the minimum) during the dormant stage.
• This plant likes a bright indirect place.

Conclusion

In this article, I showed you 9 dark purple house plants with their images and caring requirements. They were including ‘Dark Star’ Coleus, Purple Oxalis, Dark purple String of Rubies, The dark Purple Sweet Potato Vine, Deep Purple Spiderwort, Royal Flush Plant, Purpleheart, Bromeliad Neoregelia “Purple Star”, and the dark purple Cyclamen.

Which one of these houseplants is your favorite? If you have any problem with taking care of these indoor plants, you can ask your question below this page. I will answer as soon as possible.