Common ornamental plants of UCLA campus

This guide is intended to help people identify some of the common ornamental species on the UCLA campus. It does not include weeds or remnant native species that occur here naturally.

In most cases, observers should check the "captive/cultivated" button when submitting observations of ...more ↓

Swan-neck Agave ¹
Agave attenuata

Fortnight Lily ²
Dietes grandiflora

fortnight lily ³
Dietes bicolor

Philodendron xanadu ⁴

Blue corn-lily ⁵
Aristea ecklonii

daylilies
Hemerocallis

Chinese silver grass
Miscanthus sinensis

fountain grass ⁶
Pennisetum setaceum

Mediterranean fan palm ⁷
Chamaerops humilis

Grey Sedge ⁸
Carex divulsa

agapanthus ⁹
Agapanthus

Bird-of-paradise flowers ¹⁰
Strelitzia

Bush Lilies ¹¹
Clivia

hairy grama ¹²
Bouteloua hirsuta

deergrass ¹³
Muhlenbergia rigens

Aloes ¹⁴
Aloe

calla lily ¹⁵
Zantedeschia aethiopica

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Common ornamental plants of UCLA campus

Swan-neck Agave 1 Agave attenuata

Fortnight Lily 2 Dietes grandiflora

fortnight lily 3 Dietes bicolor

Philodendron xanadu 4

Blue corn-lily 5 Aristea ecklonii

daylilies Hemerocallis

Chinese silver grass Miscanthus sinensis

fountain grass 6 Pennisetum setaceum

Mediterranean fan palm 7 Chamaerops humilis

Grey Sedge 8 Carex divulsa

agapanthus 9 Agapanthus

Bird-of-paradise flowers 10 Strelitzia

Bush Lilies 11 Clivia

hairy grama 12 Bouteloua hirsuta

deergrass 13 Muhlenbergia rigens

Aloes 14 Aloe

calla lily 15 Zantedeschia aethiopica