Gardeners:
Consider all your options with Aerulean Plant Search™- Find plants you know by searching visually
- Make your selection easily and quickly
- Select plants with your favorite visual traits: flower color, leaf color, leaf shape, etc.
- Find just the right combination of visual and horticultural traits your looking for in a single plant or an entire garden
- Search for plants via thousands of detailed, professional images
- Search for plants by name: common, scientific and growers selling name
Professionals:
Aerulean Plant Search makes it simple for you to design a garden with plants that- have leaves with contrasting margins, or is pointed, toothed, round, or undulate
- have leaves of a specific size
- grow in a tuft or mound, or is spreading, erect, open, or dense
- flower in winter, all year, or just in summer
- are water wise, native, edible, or attractive to bees
- have flowers any of twenty-eight colors, or is multi-colored
- produce distinct new growth
- match the name of your client or friends or a hobby
- If your supplier is out of stock of a specific plant, finding alternatives that share important traits is simplified
- match plants to a specific set of traits
- match your preferences to your suppliers’ current inventory
- thousands of professional photographs of thousands of plants
- Data for thousands actively grown* plants
- Data from over one hundred West Coast growers
- Cross-referenced names for thousands of actively grown* plants: a list of 100,000 growers’ plants cross-checked against 200,000 botanical records
- Selling names unique to local growers: a distinct name category making it simple to find local specialties
- Botanical details, plant nomenclature, & recent synonyms
- Plant terms synthesized and simplified: seriously useful simplification of redundant plant terms
- Visual navigation and guidance making it far easier to navigate the plant kingdom than using plant keys
- Selection & Identification of plants—these tasks seamlessly merged
- Plant traits including flower type & color, leaf size, shape, margin, and more
- Plant names: formal and common, with unpublished names cross-referenced
- Species details including sizes, overall character, exposure, and water needs
Sellers:
Aerulean Plant Search makes it simple for you to help your customers plant a garden where any plant- has leaves with contrasting margins, or is pointed, toothed, round, or undulate
- has leaves of a specific size
- grows in a tuft or mound, or is spreading, erect, open, or dense
- flowers in winter, all year, or just in summer
- is water wise, native, edible, or attractive to bees
- has flowers any of twenty-eight colors, or is multi-colored
- produces distinct new growth
- matches the name of their family or friends or a hobby
- If you or your growers are out of stock of a specific plant, finding alternatives that share important traits is simplified
- and helps your staff lean more about the Plant Kingdom
- It enables you to match plants to a specific set of traits.
- It enables you to match your customers preferences to a your suppliers’ current inventory.*
- If your supplier is out of stock, say, of a purple flowering, long-leaved plant, you can find options quickly and easily.
- thousands of professional photographs of thousands of plants
- Searchable data for thousands actively grown* plants
- Data from over one hundred West Coast growers
- Cross-referenced names for thousands of actively grown* plants: 100,000 growers’ plants cross-checked to 200,000 botanical records
- Selling names unique to local growers: a distinct name category making it simple to find local specialties
- Botanical details, plant nomenclature, and recent synonyms
- Plant terms synthesized and simplified: seriously useful simplification of redundant plant terms
- Visual navigation and guidance making it far easier to navigate the plant kingdom than using plant keys
- Selection and identification of a plant—these tasks seamlessly merged
- Plant Traits including flower type & color, leaf size, shape, margin, and more
- Species details including sizes, overall character, exposure, and water needs
Growers:
There are many facets of our work that benefits growers.
Please Contact Us for details and to discuss having your full plant list included in our plant list.
Seed funding in part supplied by the USDA. 
*Note: This version of Aerulean Plant Search contains data for plants that thrive in every zone in the United States including: 3,500 in Zone 9, 1,900 in Zone 8, 1,500 in Zone 7, and 1,000 in Zone 6. All of these plants are actively cultivation by West Coast growers and may or may not be actively cultivated in every other region.
