Best Indoor Plants For Low To No Light

List of plants that grow without sunlight.

Best indoor plants for low to no light.

For those of us without a green thumb it can feel a little overwhelming to try and choose plants that we won t accidentally kill. Low light conditions are always a challenge for the indoor gardener. This fast growing vine works well in hanging baskets or can be trained to climb a small trellis or totem. There are about 50 species of it.

There are some house plant species that positively thrive on little or no light. While these shade plants don t need direct sunlight to survive they do need indirect light which can come from the smallest of windows in fact many of these plants can be harmed by direct sunlight so be sure you place them in a place where they aren t too close to a window with direct light. It thrives in an east facing window that receives some morning sunlight. It thrives in an east facing window that receives some morning sunlight.

Dracaena is a beautiful houseplant that you can grow at home. Spider plants native to tropics around the globe and the first houseplant for innumerable people probably owes its popularity to its unique growth habit and for its ease of growth as a low light houseplant the mother plant a clump of curving leaves that resemble long broad grass blades sends out long stems with baby plants at their ends. Two newer varieties offer colorful foliage. The brasil variety has gorgeous gold and green variegated foliage while micans sports purple flushed leaves with a satin like texture.

Indoors the rubber plant can reach heights of up to 10 feet. The plant prefers indirect and low light conditions. Since this plant is one of the most durable indoor plants it does quite well in low light and only needs to be fertilized once or twice a year it s ideal for beginner gardeners. You can pot it hang it or even grow it along a trellis or pole.

Rounding out our list of the best low light indoor plants is the arrowhead plant also known as the american evergreen. Spider plant chlorophytum comosum snake plant sansevieria trifasciata air purifying indoor plant. They can survive in low light situations or just with a plant light. Even plants that do well in outdoor shade tend to need more light when grown indoors and this can be hard to come by unless you provide auxiliary lighting.

Prayer plant maranta leuconeura shade loving indoor plants. I hope you ll get one or two and experience the feeling of life they add to your space. It s one of the easy to grow. One of the best indoor plant varieties philodendron is very tolerant of dark interiors.