Monocot Garden Plant List
Summer 2023
Monocot is a classification used to group similar plants. This year’s display highlights height. Linear plants, including grass, bamboo, corn and snake plant, pierce a palette of broad-leaf tropicals. Late-season vines, such as philodendron and yam, will creep up and in between plants, filling the understory with texture and color. Click here to learn more about the Monocot Garden.
Acorus calamus 'Variegatus'
Variegated Sweet Flag
Alocasia macrorrhiza 'Lutea'
Elephant Ear cv.
Alpinia hainanensis (syn: Alpinia katsumadai)
Shell-ginger
Arundo donax 'Golden Chain'
Yello-variegated Giant Reed
Asparagus verticillatus
Hardy Vining Asparagus Fern
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'
Feather Reed Grass
Canna 'Flirtini' Cabana Canna™
Canna 'Orange Punch'
Canna 'Skye Hawk'
Carex flagellifera
Weeping Brown Sedge
Colocasia esculenta
Taro
Colocasia esculenta 'Coal-miner'
Taro cv.
Colocasia esculenta 'Diamond Head'
Taro cv.
Colocasia esculenta 'Ruffles'
Taro cv.
Crinum bulbispermum
Orange River Lily
Dioscorea alta
Purple Yam
Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'
Abyssinian Red Banana
Fargesia sp.
Clumping Bamboo
Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'
All Gold Japanese Forest Grass
Hedychium coccineum (orange)
Orange Hardy Ginger
Hedycium coronarium (white)
White Hardy Ginger
Iris domestica 'Hello Yellow'
Yellow Leopard-lily
Lilium lancifolium 'Flore-pleno'
Doluble Tiger Lily
Lilium leichtlinii
Leichtlin's Lily
Lilium pumilum
Coral Lily
Lillium 'Orange Summer'
Asiatic Lily
Liriope japonicus
Dwarf Lilyturf
Liriope japonicus 'Variegata'
Variegated Dwarf Lilyturf
Molinia caerulea 'Transparent'
Moor Grass
Musa basjoo
Hardy Banana
Musa 'Siam Ruby'
Red Banana Tree
Musa velutina
Hairy Pink Banana
Muscari 'Bling Bling'
Grape Hyacinth
Musella lasiocarpa
Golden Lotus Banana
Ophiopogon planiscapus
Mondo Grass
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Ebony Knight'
Black Mondo Grass
Panicum vargatum 'Northwind'
Switch Grass cv.
Philodendron hederaceum 'Silver Stripe'
Philodendron cv.
Philodendron spp.
Philodendron species
Phyllostachys nigra
Black Bamboo
Sansevieria trifasciata (syn: Dracaena trifasciata)
Snake Plant cv.
Sansevieria trifasciata 'Superba Black Gold' (syn: Dracaena trifasciata)
Snake Plant cv.
Setaria palmifolia 'Rubra'
Rubra Palm Grass
Stromanthe sanguinea
Stromanthe
Tinantia pringlei
Spotted Widow's Tears
Trachycarpus fortunei
Chinese Wildmill Palm
Trachycarpus martianus
Himalayan Windmill Palm
Trachycarpus takil
Fan Palm
Veratrum nigrum
Black False-hellebore
Yucca filamentosa
Adam's Needle and Thread
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Calla Lily
Zea mays
Indian Corn
Zephyranthes robustus
Rain Lily
Zingiber zerumbet
Shampoo Ginger