| Scientific Name: | Coleus scutellarioides (incl. hybrids cvs.) |
| Common Name: | coleus |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Africa, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant, Medicinal plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Succulent, Pubescent, Ovate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 4-sided; leaves opposite, most cultivar are ovate, 5-15cm long x 2-6cm wide, (scarcely) pubescent, apex acute-accuminate, base rounded-cordate, margin crenate, and have yellowish to green to dark red variegation. | |