Plants That Need Very Little Light

Below are general guidelines for exposure for low light plants.

Plants that need very little light.

This cute little plant with its thick spoon shaped leaves is both pet friendly and low light tolerant. In fact too much intense sunlight can hurt this variety. Require very little sunlight and can survive in heavily shaded areas. I love the spider plant chlorophytum comosum plant for how hardy it is with nearly zero sunlight.

Zz plant zamioculcas zamiifolia. Hardy shade plants and flowers bring beautiful blooms even to those parts of your backyard that receive little light. It can survive for years in indirect light and even live prosperously if it s been lacking water for a while. It can tolerate fatal conditions for most plants as it has adapted the abysmal full shaded spots in forest floors and can live just by less than an hour of direct sunlight a day and with very little water.

It means that these are indoor plants that tolerate low light. 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. It ll vary a bit depending on the number and size of windows or glass doors in a room. They love to grow at room temperature.

Notable properties that make them great for offices. Snake plants purify the air you breathe and release oxygen. Usually no direct sun but still some light. Also known as the eternity plant the zz plant zamioculcas zamiifolia is one of the hardiest indoor houseplants around.

Not only can it survive with very little sunlight but it is also drought resistant. They are very hardy hard to kill plants. 40 indoor plants that don t need sunlight 1. You want the plant to be at least 5 away from the window s.

Read on for a list of plants that don t need sun to grow. If your room has no windows you should leave lights on 12 hours a day or rotate low light plants into the room for a few weeks at a time before moving them back to a naturally lit room. Can go multiple days without water. About low light indoor plants.

Medium light would be in an east or west facing room. When you purchase a plant and the label includes it as a low light plant it does not necessarily mean that these are indoor plants that need low light. Plants can be close to the window s. North facing rooms or rooms with no windows are considered low light rooms.