Plants That Need Very Little Light

Read on for a list of plants that don t need sun to grow.

Plants that need very little light.

You want the plant to be at least 5 away from the window s. They love to grow at room temperature. 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. 40 indoor plants that don t need sunlight 1.

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. This cute little plant with its thick spoon shaped leaves is both pet friendly and low light tolerant. Hardy shade plants and flowers bring beautiful blooms even to those parts of your backyard that receive little light. Below are general guidelines for exposure for low light plants.

They are very hardy hard to kill plants. It means that these are indoor plants that tolerate low light. In fact during the winter months it needs very little water at all. Notable properties that make them great for offices.

Not only can it survive with very little sunlight but it is also drought resistant. As a japanese native it shows the samurai style of tenacity in its dark green sword like leaves. About low light indoor plants. 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.

Zz plant zamioculcas zamiifolia. Can go multiple days without water. It ll vary a bit depending on the number and size of windows or glass doors in a room. Require very little sunlight and can survive in heavily shaded areas.

North facing rooms or rooms with no windows are considered low light rooms. The term low light can be very misleading. It can survive for years in indirect light and even live prosperously if it s been lacking water for a while. Medium light would be in an east or west facing room.

In fact too much intense sunlight can hurt this variety. Usually no direct sun but still some light. I love the spider plant chlorophytum comosum plant for how hardy it is with nearly zero sunlight. Plants can be close to the window s.