| Scientific Name: | Plectranthus verticillatus |
| Common Name: | Swedish ivy |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Ovate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Violet, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Trailing plant; leaves opposite, broadly ovate, most blades mature 3-4cm long x 2.5-3.5cm wide, margin crenate (3-6 pairs of rounded teeth), semi-succulent, pubescent, petioles 0.5-4cm long. | |