I have a collection of small plants that almost all are succulents and some have lovely red leaves. However, you can find a small plant with red leaves among Peperomia, Pollka Dot Plants, Coleus, Nerve Plants, etc. To identify indoor or outdoor small red-leaf plants you can scroll through a gallery of their images (like I provided here) or get help from a plant identifier such as the “House Plant Identifier”.
If you are an enthusiast of small plants, red-leaf ones will give a lively view to your living space. To search for your small plant with red leaves name, I will help you to identify it easily with one of the best tools and pictures.
In the first part of this post, I provided you with images of 15 small red-leaf indoor plants. If you didn’t find your house plant among them, don’t worry because, in the next part, I will show you how to identify your small house plant with red leaves with a free online tool.
➡ ➡ Tip: Your red leaf plants may turn green in low light conditions or fertilizing with high Nitrate levels fertilizers. |
Small plants with red leaves will give a lovely tropical view to your home in combination with green leaves. To take care of them, first, you have to find their names to know their needs. Keep reading to show you how to identify your small plant with red leaves.
In this article, we will help you identify your small plant with red leaves by comparing it with the image of 15 small red leaves houseplant. You will find the following plants small indoor plants with red leaves or small plants with red and green leaves.
Peperomia belongs to the family of Piperaceae with more than 1000 species in the great range of colours and patterns on their leaves. In the following, you can find species and cultivars that have green leaves with red on the undersides or red leaves overall.
Peperomia caperata ‘Schumi Red’
Peperomia caperata sunrise
Peperomia Rosso
Peperomia Assorted
Peperomia Santorini
It is a very nice Peperomia with green leaves on top and red underneath. You can find more plants like that in my other post.
Peperomia caperata ‘Apricot’
Peperomia verticillata
It is known as Red Log Plant and also called Whorled Peperomia or Belly Button
Polka Dot Plant
Polka dot plants are another common small house plants that have green leaves with speckles of colours from white to red.
Nerve Plant
The Nerve plant is a small house plant with green leaves and red veins that remind you of nerve networks! see the following picture.
Coleus
Coleus are popular indoor and outdoor plants which various ranges of colours and patterns on their leaves. In the following, you can see some small cultivars with red leaves or green and red leaves.
Air Plant
It’s a small plant with red leaves especially when put it in the sunlight in the morning or early afternoon.
Romeo Echeveria (Echeveria agavoides Romeo)
Echeveria agavoides is a gorgeous succulent with deep red leaves.
Christmas Carol Aloe (Aloe’ Christmas Carol’)
Christmas Carol is a small succulent with green leaves and red trim. If you put it in sunlight, the fleshy leaves will turn red overall.
Flapjack Plant (Kalanchoe luciae)
This small plant is also known as the “Paddle plant”. The appearance of this plant is similar to a stack of pancakes. The colour of its leaves is dependent on light. In sunlight places it has red leaves but in shade places the leaves will turn a green colour.
Pencil Cactus
(Euphorbia tirucalli)
Pencil Cactus is not a real cactus; it is a succulent that is also known as Sticks of Fire. If you put it in sunlight, you will see more red color on its leaves.
Red Aloe (Aloe cameronii)
Red Aloe is also known as Cameron’s Ruwari Aloe and Red Aloe. You will see it with deep green leaves that will turn a red or dark red colour in summer.
Red Wiggle(Sedum ochroleucum’ Red Wiggle’)
Red wiggle are beautiful succulents that can grow indoors too. The needle-shaped leaves of this small plant are green that will turn into red colour with age.
Kalanchoe sexangularis N.E.Br.
Kalanchoe sexangularis has green leaves with a red shade. If you put it in sunlight place its leaves will turn red overall. In addition, the green leaves will turn red in winter too.
Lithops karasmontana ‘Top Red’
As you can see in the below picture, Lithos karasmontana has thick fleshy leaves with red patterns on the upper surface.
Oxalis
Oxalis triangulation is also known as False Shamrock, its leaves are similar to Shamrock Trifolium although the leaves are red to maroon. its leaves fold down at night.
Ruby Necklace
It belongs to the genus of Othonna and is one of the popular hanging plants. In a low light place, it will have a shade of purple and green but in sunlight places, it will shine with its red Ruby leaves.
As mentioned earlier, the colour of leaves in a small plant with red leaves can change in various conditions. To identify them exactly you should compare your plant with various images. It can be difficult and time-consuming for you.
Plant identification tools with a huge collection of images can do it for you with high accuracy quickly.
One of the best plant identification tools is the house plant identifier. It is a free online tool that identifies your plant by comparing its image with millions of pictures of 14000 plant species. The “House plant identifier“ does it with its advanced algorithms. This tool gets help from artificial intelligence and a learning machine to compare images.
Some facts that cause I recommend are:
house plant identifier is a free online tool.
Working with it is very easy. You only upload the image of your plant in this tool or take an online picture and then click on the start button.
It takes only 2 seconds to identify your plant with 91%accuracy.
the “House Plant Identifier” not only can detect the name of house plants but also can identify trees, flowers, wild plants, ornamentals, etc.
The wonderful thing about this tool is it could detect plant disease too. A perfect ability that will help you to detect early plant disease.
If you prefer to work with apps instead of tools, the app of house plant identifier will be available to download soon.
the small plants with red leaves are very popular among house gardeners. In the present article, we showed you pictures of all 15 small indoor plants with red leaves or green and red leaves.
Since the colour combination of leaves will be changed in various conditions, using a plant identification tool can be more useful than comparing your plant with an image. the “House plant identifier” is one of the best free online plant identification tools.
Did you identify your small plant with red leaves with the above tool? Which one was easier: identifying by picture or by tool? Please share your ideas and experiences 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.