60 Most Common House Plants: Top Indoor Plants in 2025

Join me in this Post to help you choose a new houseplant to add to your indoor garden. Here, we will take a look at the 60 most common house plants. I will show you how to choose the top ones for your indoor decor. I listed them as the best because I selected them based on various factors, for example most of them are hard-killed plants and easy growing. So, if you are a new gardener, don’t ignore to see our below list.

I know that people add plants to various parts of the house for different purposes. For example:

• You may have a shelve in your room and want to put an appropriate easy-growing houseplant on it.
• You may have a dim room and are searching to find colourful low-light plants to make an energetic house.
• You may need a small trendy indoor plant to put on your living room table.
• The ceiling of your room is high and you are here to find tall indoor plants to bring a tropical view to your house.
• You may have pets and search to find safe house plants for cats.
• You want to add a new house plant to purify the air of your house and make it fresher and cleaner.
• …..

You may be here for every above reason or other things. To make selecting the best indoor plant easy for you I divided the 60 common houseplants into various groups based on your needs. They include:

• A: Most common house plants: best indoor plants for living room
• B: Most common house plants: best indoor plants for oxygen
• C: Most common house plants: best indoor plants for cats
• D: Most common house plants: best indoor plants for beginners
• E: Most common house plants: best indoor plants for small pots. 

We get that you may be very busy and don’t have time. so, at the first of this article, we try to summarize all of the content in a table, although, to find your best indoor plant we strongly recommend reading to the end and enjoying the images too. If you are ready, let’s dive into it.

Top 60 Indoor Plants

For those who are busy, I created the following table to find the common and scientific names of 60 common houseplants for, beginners, putting in living rooms, producing oxygen, growing in small pots or those that are safe for cats and other pets. If you have more time, keep reading to give you a brief overview of each of them with their pictures in the next parts.

A: Most Common House Plants: Best Indoor Plants For Living Room

A lot of factors are involved in choosing the best indoor plants for a living room. At first, light is the most important factor. if you have a dim living room you should look for low-light indoor plants but a leaving room with southern windows and bright sunlight have its specific houseplants.

In addition, other factors such as the Hight of the ceiling or the open and empty space of your living and your taste are important in choosing a plant for a living room. Furthermore, you may want to put your houseplant on the floor, table, or shelves or hang them. For every goal, you have to select specific indoor plants.

Hence in the following, to make it easy for you, we put the best indoor plants for living rooms in 9 groups including:

• 1. Best indoor plants for living room with High Ceilings
• 2. Best indoor tree plants for living room
• 3. Best indoor plants for living room table
• 4. Best indoor plants for improving the Moody Vibe of living
• 5. Best indoor plants for living room with Compact Spaces
• 6. Best indoor plants for living room’ Shelves
• 7. Best indoor plants for living room with natural light
• 8. Best indoor plants for living room with Any Lighting
• 9. Best indoor plants for living room with Trendy Look

If you are ready let’s, get going to show you the best houseplants for living rooms in every above group.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room With High Ceilings

In this part, you will find 6 common tall indoor plants that are perfect for living rooms with high ceilings. Choose one of them and build a tropical view in your living room.

Best Indoor Tree Plants For Living Room

If you are interested in bringing a jungle view to your living room, choose the tree plants. In the following, you can see the images of the 5 common tree plants for living rooms.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room’s Table

The tables of various sizes and shapes are one of the main elements of living rooms and most people decorate them by putting some gorgeous plants on them. if you are searching to find appropriate indoor plants for your living room table, in the following we will show you 6 beautiful houseplants for putting on tables.

Best Indoor Plants For Improving The Moody Vibe Of Living Room

Most people are searching for ways to bring happiness, energy and life to their houses. the living room is one of the important parts of every house. In the following, we want to show you 12 indoor plants that you should have in your living room. Most of them are colourful and create an energetic atmosphere in your house.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room With Compact Spaces

If your living room is compact, you should try to choose the almost tall but not very broad indoor plants. In addition, if you don’t have enough space on the floor, you can get help from small hanging plants to bring greenery to your living rooms. In the following, you can find the four common houseplants that are appropriate for living rooms with compact space.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room’ Shelves

Some people love shelves and use them for decorating living rooms. hence, you can get help with shelves to make a green space in your living rooms. Veins and creeper indoor plants are perfect for living room shelves. In the following, you can find 3 popular houseplants that usually use on shelves.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room With Natural Light

Having a living room with natural light is ideal and you can make it perfect by adding indoor plants that are ok with natural light. In the following, we will show you two of the most common of them.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room With Any Lighting

In the following, you can find an indoor plant that brings lighter colours to your living room, although it can grow in low-light places. Hence if you have a dim living room get help from the below houseplant to bring bright colours to your room.

Best Indoor Plants For Living Room With Trendy Look

If you want to create a trendy living room, never ignore indoor plants. In the following, you can find 6 trend houseplants that you may see in the most of living room’s images on Instagram.

B: Most Common House Plants: Best Indoor Plants For Oxygen

Oxygen is necessary for humans and other organisms. The most producers of oxygen on our planet are plants. It means that having more plants, having fresher and cleaner air. Nowadays, most people get help from indoor plants to bring fresh air to their houses.

However, some plants produce more oxygen than others and are more efficient in purifying the air. So, in the following, we will show you the 10 highest oxygen-producing indoor plants that you can get help with within various spaces of your house including the living room, bedroom, etc.

Hence some of them are mentioned in the previous part of this article (Most common house plants: best indoor plants for living room) too. They are including:

• Peace Lily
• Coin plant
• Golden Pothos
• Spider Plants
• Snake Plant
• Weeping Fig (Ficus)
• Areca Palm
• Parlor palm

Below you will three other best indoor plants for oxygen with their images.

C: Most Common House Plants: Best Indoor Plants For Cats 

Most people have pets in their house and most of them, especially cats, are very playful and nosy. So, they may try to eat or touch your houseplants. Some indoor plants are toxic and if you have cats or other pets in your house you have to avoid them.

In the following, you can find the best indoor plants that are safe for cats. You can put them in various parts of your house without any worry about the health of your pet. You may saw some of them in previous parts of this article (“Most common house plants: best indoor plants for living room” and “Most common house plants: best indoor plants for oxygen”) too.

you can find the images of these plants in previous parts. They are including:

• Air Plants
• Coin plant
• Calatheas
• Spider Plants
• Bromeliad
• Ponytail Palm
• Prayer Plant
• Orchid
• Areca Palm
• Boston Fern
• Parlor palm
• Banana tree
• Peperomia
• African violets

Below, you can find the images of 12 other indoor plants for oxygen.

D: Most common house plants: best indoor plants for beginners 

If you are a new gardener some plants are better than others for you because they are easy to grow. so, you will get hopeful and enthusiastic. They will be killed hard. because they can withstand fluctuating temperatures. hence if you buy them in inappropriate season, they will be ok with you.

in addition, they are tolerant to erratic watering. you, as a new gardener, may forget the appropriate time of watering, they can be alive for a short time in dry conditions.

and finally, if you fail to detect appropriate light conditions for them, they can grow in low light conditions or bad light. So, they need low taken care of. Hence you can put them in various spaces in your house including bedrooms, dim corners, living rooms, etc.

In the following, we try to show you the best indoor plants for beginners. You can select them based on your taste. In addition, you can find other characteristics such as being best for oxygen, cats, living room or small pots by getting help from the first table of this article, for example, the spider plant, my favourite house plant, is one of the best plants for beginners.

It can also be a perfect choice for your living room. A spider plant is safe for cats and is one of the plants that can purify the air of your house.

below you can see the common and scientific names of 23 of the best houseplants for beginners. I strongly suggest you after choosing your favourite plant below, seek it in the above table too.

• 1. Dragon (Tree Dracaena marginata)
• 2. Aloe Vera (Aloe vera)
• 3. Jade Plants (Crassula ovata)
• 4. ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia )
• 5. Split Leaf Philodendrons (Monstera deliciosa)
• 6. Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum spp.)
• 7. Red Aglaonema (Aglaonema spp.)
• 8 . English Ivy (Hedera helix)
• 9.  Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)
• 10 . Spider Plants (Chlorophytum comosum)
• 11 . Bromeliad (Bromeliadcae)
• 12.Snake Plant (Dracaena trifasciata)
• 13.Prayer Plant (Maranta leuconeura)
• 14. Lucky Bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana)
• 15.Echeveria (Echeveria spp.)
• 16.Polka Dot Plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)
• 17 . Moon Cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii)
• 18.Fishbone Cactus (Disocactus anguliger)
• 19.Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra elatior)
• 20. Holiday Cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi)
• 21. African violets (Saintpaulia ionantha)
• 22 . String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus)
• 23.Flaming Katy (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana)

E: Most Common House Plants: Best Indoor Plants For Small Pots. 

Do you have a small cactus on your desktop like me? Every day when I want to start my work, my small pot helps me to start an energetic day. It tells me to be strong and beautiful like a small cactus.

If you are interested in having small pots with gorgeous plants, keep reading to tell you about the best indoor Plants for a small pot.

Small pots are perfect for putting on shelves, desktops, cabinets and various spaces in the house and office. succulents and cactus are perfect in this issue. most of the small plants belong to them.

Some people only have small space in the room, so they should buy small plants. Some of these beautiful small plants, are slow-growing and remain small almost always. But others get larger and larger and you should re-pot them to give bigger space to roots’ growing. It will cause most people to have a lot of small empty pots.

So, if you want to avoid it, you should get familiar with houseplants that are best for small pots. In the following, you can see the names and images of indoor small plants. See their images and choose them based on your taste, after that come back above and search their names in the table of the first of this article.

You can find more information about your favourite small houseplant. For example, you can check whether that is your small plant safe for cats or not.

1. Aloe Vera (Aloe vera)

2. Jade Plants (Crassula ovata)

3. Coin plant/Chinese Money Plant (Pilea peperomioides)

4. Golden Pothos (Epipremnum aureum)

5. Flamingo flower (Anthurium sp.)

6. Moon orchid/moth orchid/ mariposa orchid (Phalaenopsis amabilis)

7. Polka Dot Plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)

8. Peperomia (Peperomia sp.)

9. Begonia rex (Begonia rex-cultorum)

10. Nerve plant (Fittonia albivenis)

11. African violets (Saintpaulia ionantha)

12. Baby toes (Fenestraria rhopalophylla)

13. String of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus)

14. Flaming Katy (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana)

Before to finish our list, I have a surprise too. If you spot a houseplant that I have not mentioned above, you can tell me its name below this page to tell you pro tips about it. How do you know what is its name? it is really easy, let me show you in the following.

Conclusion

We tried to get you familiar with the 60 most common house plants in this article. We grouped them based on your needs and presented the top indoor plants in every group with their images.

These groups included the best indoor plants for the living room, the best indoor plants for oxygen, the best indoor plants for cats, the best indoor plants for beginners and the best indoor plants for small pots. What was your main objective in adding a new plant to your house garden? Did you want to bring more oxygen to your house or you were searching for indoor plants that are safe for pets?

Did find plants in the above list that were best for several objects (such as living room, oxygen and cats)? Take note of the table in the first of this article. Parlor Palm (my favourite houseplant) is one of them, can you tell me the name of the others? Please write below this page.

Did you find your intended house plant in this article? What was its name? Do you think the above list will work well? Can you add new plants to the above groups? Please share your knowledge with us below this page.

Are there other best indoor plant groups that you want to know about? if you want me to write about them please tell us below this page.

Elahe Rabiei

Hi, I’m Elaheh. My Academic major is plant protection, and houseplants are my expertise. As a houseplant lover, my house is full of indoor plants and it is my passion to take care of them. Hence, I’m here to share my knowledge and experience about growing healthy houseplants. I am also a plant protection advisor, so feel free to ask me any questions you may have.

 inhouseplant2017@gmail.com