Are you looking to add some red color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 12 single-head-stemless Aloes that are good candidates.
This perennial, stemless and generally solitary succulent native to Zimbabwe is a large and showy outdoor plant in frost-free zones. Be sure give this attractive aloe with its yellow to reddish orange flowers a place in your garden. A distinctive South African species grown partly for its ornamental spiny foliage, partly because of its colorful flowers and partly due to its far greater than average cold tolerance. read more
Aloe chabaudii (Dwala Aloe) is an easy-to-grow, clustering perennial succulent that forms large colonies of gently spreading, turquoise green rosettes. It is a robust, attractive, generally stemless, fast growing aloe with very showy flowers in winter. read more
Native to Namibia, Aloe hereroensis is an attractive 'medium-small' glaucous, pale blue-green aloe, usually solitary or with only a few rosettes in a clump that has 'fat', upward curving leaves with white linear flecking. read more
Aloe lavranosii is a solitary or occasionally offsetting Arabian aloe Aloe from southern Yemen with broad, bluish-purplish leaves and a branched inflorescence with unusual, green or red flowers that are densely covered in white hairs. read more
Aloe peglerae is an unusual, small, stemless South African aloe. Stunningly attractive turquoise colored aloe easily identified by the lack of spines on the inside surfaces of each leaf. This aloe grows as a solitary rosette with the leaves curving inwards, resulting in a neat, rounded head or rarely form small groups. Aloe peglerae has unbranched inflorescence with densely set, dull red flowers that usually turn greenish yellow when opening. read more
Aloe petricola is solitary, stemless, growing to 2 feet high (60 cm) and up to 3 feet (90 cm) wide which is native to the east transvaal in South Africa. This Aloe has thick, stiff, non-bending pale blue-green leaves with sharp, widely spaced small reddish marginal teeth and an overall ball-like, rounded form. read more
Aloe reitzii is a rather rare species of stemless Aloe which is summer blooming and endemic to South Africa’s grassland area of Mpumalanga. This beautiful robust stemless plant usually has a single rosette 3 feet tall. This aloe produces handsome cylindrical racemes of dark red to orange-red flowers and has long relatively broad silvery blue-green leaves with reddish teeth along the margins. read more
Aloe scobinifolia is a small, stemless Aloe from Somalia with rough (sort of like shark skin), upright and unbendable, toothless leaves of a dull, pale olive-green. read more
Aloe striata subspecies karasbergensis is well known for its attractive rusty brown to bronze, leaf color, as well as beautiful and charismatic symmetrical leaf crowns. This low-growing, rosette-forming succulent grows to 2-3 feet tall by as wide with interesting pale gray glaucous leaves leaves and essentially no marginal teeth. read more
Aloe striata, with the common name 'Coral Aloe', is a small, stemless South African Aloe species. Aloe striata is a beautiful succulent up to 18 inches (45 cm) tall and up to 2 feet (60 cm) wide, with rosettes of a few flat, broad, pale gray-green leaves that vary in color depending on the amount of sunlight. read more
These Aloes hail from Saudi Arabia and Yemen and endure Arizona heat as well as Aloe vera. This is an very common aloe in it's native habitat, where it typically grows as a stemless, solitary upright pale green to pale blue-green plant with thick, short leaves. read more
This plant is one of the most beautiful and showy of the South African species of Aloe. Aloe wickensii has solitary, stemless rosettes densely packed with upright, curved smooth turquoisey-grey leaves with small sharp reddish-brown spines along the margins. A very attractive and unique Aloe with spectacular display of bi-colored blooms when in full flower. read more
