Pronounciation: Ha-wor-thee-OP-sis at-ten-u-A-ta

Hardiness zones
Sunset 12-24
USDA 9-11

Landscape Use: Nice container plant for up close display on patios and front entryways, rock garden display plant, botanical collections, indoor house plant.

Form & Character: Matting, clumping and slowly spreading, VERY STIFF, rigid with age, diminuative, interesting.

Growth Habit: Evergreen, fibrous and succulent perennial, very slow growth rate to 8 to 12 inches tall and 1-foot wide, basally branching and clumping.

Foliage/Texture: Small, succulent dull green leaves tapering to a sharp point, leaves on abaxial surface with distinct white markings, linear to lanceolate less than than 3-inches long; medium fine texture.

Flowers & Fruits: Multiple small white flowers in spring grow on elongated 8- to 14-inches long wiry stalks called 'keels'; fruit inconspicuous.

Seasonal Color: Subtle flower colors during spring and fall.

Temperature: Tolerant of Phoenix heat (with western shade), but freeze intolerant.

Light: Eastern morning sun only, otherwise shade.

Soil: Use a coarse well-drained substrate if zebra plant is growing in a container, otherwise well-drained soil.

Watering: Infrequent, but regular water needed during summer.

Pruning: None, except to remove spent flower stalks during mid-summer and winter.

Propagation: Division of offsets in a clump is soooo easy.

Disease and Pests: None

Additional comments: Zebra plant is a great container or rock garden display plant that does surprisingly well in Phoenix outdoors in protected locations. Beware though, those urban garden demons aka rabbits love 'to munch' on zebra plant leaves and javelina will 'root out' and consume entire clumps.