Plant collection
Air Purifying Plants
Plants popularly called "air-purifying", many of them from NASA's 1989 Clean Air Study. At normal room scale their effect on indoor air is negligible, but they are easy-going and look great.
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Rubber Plant
Ficus elastica
Snake Plant
Sansevieria trifasciata
Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum wallisii
Non-toxic to pets
Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
Non-toxic to pets
Bamboo Palm
Chamaedorea seifrizii
Non-toxic to pets
Areca Palm
Dypsis lutescens
Golden Pothos
Epipremnum aureum
Dracaena Janet Craig
Dracaena deremensis
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum morifolium
Monstera Thai Constellation
Monstera deliciosa Thai Constellation
Non-toxic to pets
Money Tree
Pachira glabra
Rubber Tree Tineke
Ficus elastica 'Tineke'
Umbrella Plant
Schefflera arboricola
English Ivy
Hedera helix
Non-toxic to pets
Spider Plant
Chlorophytum comosum
ZZ Plant
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
Chinese Evergreen
Aglaonema commutatum
Dracaena
Dracaena marginata
Non-toxic to pets
Parlor Palm
Chamaedorea elegans
Dieffenbachia
Dieffenbachia seguine
Aloe Vera
Aloe vera
Monstera Deliciosa
Monstera deliciosa
Heartleaf Philodendron
Philodendron hederaceum
Anthurium
Anthurium andraeanum
About this collection
What to know before you choose
The "air-purifying" label comes from NASA's 1989 Clean Air Study, which measured how much of a few chemicals, such as formaldehyde and benzene, plants removed inside small sealed chambers. A home is not a sealed chamber: a 2019 review of those experiments (Cummings & Waring) estimated you would need 10 to 1,000 plants per square metre to match what normal ventilation already does.
So at room scale, a few houseplants have a negligible effect on indoor air; opening a window or running an extractor fan does far more. The plants here are still worth growing for how they look, and many of them are rated beginner in their care profiles.
How we picked
Plants whose profiles carry the popular "air-purifying" label. It is a label, not a measurement of what the plant does in your home.
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