Add bold color to your plant collection with the Purple Heart Plant (Tradescantia pallida), known for its vibrant purple leaves and fast-growing habit. This striking member of the Commelinaceae family is excellent as an indoor houseplant, patio pot plant, or warm-climate groundcover.

Each live starter plant establishes quickly in bright light and well-drained soil. Purple Heart thrives indoors with strong light or outdoors in frost-free regions, offering dramatic foliage that enhances any plant display or landscape.

• Live Purple Heart (Tradescantia pallida) starter plant
• Deep purple foliage; vigorous trailing or spreading growth
• Ideal as an indoor houseplant or outdoor groundcover
• Easy-care plant thriving in bright light
• Great for hanging baskets, pots, borders, and landscaping
• Fast-growing and simple to propagate

• Common Name: Purple Heart / Wandering Jewel
• Scientific Name: Tradescantia pallida
• Family: Commelinaceae
• Plant Type: Perennial (houseplant in all zones)
• USDA Zone: 9–12 outdoors; houseplant elsewhere
• Color: Purple foliage
• Soil Type: Well-drained potting mix
• Sunlight: Bright indirect light to full sun
• Watering: Moderate; allow soil to dry slightly between watering
• Growth Habit: Trailing, spreading
• Bloom Season: Summer (small pink flowers)

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.