Various Ivy (Hedera) species grow indoors and outdoors while almost all Ivy houseplants belong to English Ivy (Hedera helix). You must spot their leaves’ shape and color to identify Ivy house plants. some varieties such as Asteriks Ivy (with their distinctly star-shaped leaves), Ivy lace (with curly leaves) and sweetheart Ivy (with heart-shape leaves) can easily be distinguished by their leaf shape and some such as Buttercup Ivy (with shiny bright yellow leaves) can be easily identified by leaf color.
In the following, you can find 26 Ivy houseplants with their image. If you have any problem identifying your ivy house plant, join me in this article to help you with how to do it.
Why you must Identify your Ivy House plant?
Ivy plants are gorgeous hanging plants that can give a lush greenery review to your indoor and outdoor environment. They with different varieties will come well with your house decoration. However, some lovely Ivy plants can be toxic for your family or pets. Hence, it’s important you can identify your indoor ivy plant correctly.
In addition, the leaves of some of these beautiful ivy plants will turn to other colours or patterns in different conditions. You should know about their needs.
After reading this article you will find out how to identify your Ivy house plants with its Leaf image or using a free online tool. Keep reading to know how to do it.
Here, is the Audio version of this article if you prefer to hear it.
Most people ask what kind of Ivy is used in house plants. Ivy plants have a lot of different species including:
Some of these species are more common as indoor ivy plants. In the following, you will find different kinds of ivy house plants which are varieties of English ivy (Hedera helix) house plants. I will help you to identify your indoor ivy plant type by two methods:
So, keep reading.
Indoor Ivy Plants are most famous because of their various leaf shape and colour. Hence in this part, you will find a picture of 26 Ivy plant leaves. You can compare your indoor ivy plant with them.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Angel Snow’
Its young leaves are pale green and turn to mid-green in the oldest leaves. The edge of the leaves is silver-white and the leaflets are narrower at the top.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Angel Snow’
Angel snow ivy has green leaves with white spots. In addition, the edges of the leaves are cream to White.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Asterisk’
As you can see in its picture asterisk ivy has lobed green leaves that are Star shaped with 5 leaflets. one of its leaflets is longer than the other. It’s almost similar to Patrick in SpongeBob.
4. Adam Ivy
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Adam’
Adam ivy is another Ivy common houseplant type that has green leaves with yellow edges and light veins. It will evoke an arrow in your mind.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Gold Baby’
This type of ivy house plant has light green leaves which golden and have bright yellow margins and veins.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Buttercup’
Buttercup is another type of ivy house plant that can give your house a shiny view with its light yellow leaves. However, its leaves will convert into pale green if you put it in shade.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Gold Dust’
This Ivy house plant stands out from the rest of the others because of its various patterns on each leaf. You can see bright yellow patterns on its green leaf.
8. Gold Child
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Goldchild’
Golden Child ivy has Green-gray leaves with yellow Edges. You will find this ivy house plant in a small mature size that makes it a perfect selection as a house plant.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Curly Locks
As mentioned in its name, curly locks ivy has glossy green leaves that are almost curly with a ruffled look.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Big Shot’
You can find cream or golden streaks in its young leaves however its leaves will turn to Deep Green over time.
In the following video, you can find ivy varieties too.
11. Iva Lace
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Ivalace’
You will find this ivy houseplant with green glossy leaves that are curly in ages. Its leaf is similar to a cup.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Bettina’
It is a compact ivy house plant that has green leaves with cream-to-white edges.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Chicago’
You will find this type of ivy with green-yellow leaves that stay in medium size over time. The leaves usually have three leaflets.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Sweetheart’
This variety is distinguished from others with its heart-shaped leaves as you can see in this picture.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Florida’
Florida Ivy has dark green leaves in medium size that are divided into 3 to 5 leaflets. Its leaflets are narrower at the top.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Jubilee’
This variety of IV house plants has compact small green leaves with cream-shade patterns.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Francis Ivy’
This house plant ivy is distinguished from other types with its broad leaves and upright growth pattern.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Shamrock’
Its green leaves have rounded tip lobes. Another characteristic of this Ivy House plant is that its Central leaflet overlaps with the small lobes. You may see its flowers and fruits too.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Dark Pittsburg’
It is also known as English ivy. As mentioned in its name, this type of ivy house plant is famous because of its dark green leaves.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Fluffy Ruffles’
It’s an unusual Ivy House Plant with its pink, green or even yellow wavy leaves. It’s a ruffled ivy.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Hermania’
This variety is very different from others because of its narrow leaves. As you can see in this picture, its leaves are dark green.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Primadonna’
As you can see in its picture this variety has green leaves with bright white patterns.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Needlepoint’
As you see in its image it has five or three narrow leaflets. Hence it is named needlepoint ivy.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Mint Kolibri’
It has curly deep green leaves with cream to White patterns.
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Royal Hustler’
This house plant ivy has rounded leaves with glossy green colours.
26. Manda’s Crested Ivy
Scientific Name: Hedera helix ‘Manda’s Crested’
You will spot this ivy house plant with Broad Green leaves that have wavy margins. You may see its yellow-green flowers too.
If you couldn’t identify your ivy house plant among the above collection, don’t worry. In the following, we will show you how to identify it with one of the best house plant identifiers free
If you ask me the easiest way to identify a plant is getting help from a free online tool. It’s enough that you take an online picture of your house plant or upload its image in a plant identifier online tool and click on the start button.
There are various types of plant identifiers but you must select one that can identify your plant with high accuracy. “House plant identifier” is one of the best free online tools for identifying indoor plants and other types sat as trees, flowers etc.
Some things that I like about these tools are:
After reading this article, now you can identify your indoor Ivy plant. Ivy plants are popular hanging plants. We showed you 26 Common Ivy House plant varieties with pictures. Did you find your Ivy House Plants among them? What was your ivy plant variety? In addition, we told you about one of the best free online tools for plant identification: ” house plant identifier”. Did you get help from it? Please share your experience with our readers below this page.
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.