* Botanical name: Alternanthera dentata 'LRU30' * What it is: A trailing, non-flowering annual grown for its season-long, thumbnail-sized burgundy leaves that have brighter ruby-red undersides ...

Little Ruby alternanthera (Alternanthera dentata Little Ruby) is among the very best alternantheras for Louisiana gardeners to plant. Because of its outstanding characteristics, it is a spring ...

Chalk up another award for Little Ruby. In a period when we write about, or tout, some new coleus on what seems a weekly basis, there is one little alternanthera out there hitting it out of the ...

Joseph's coat, calico plant, copperleaf and Joy weed are all very descriptive common names of the plant genus Alternanthera, which is part of the Amaranth family. A coleus look-alike, this genus ...