Are you looking to add some yellow color to your waterwise garden? Here's a handy list of 13 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 broomii (Snake Aloe) is a common and attractive aloe. It is a robust, short-stemmed, evergreen succulent forming a large, dense rosette of light green leaves, 1 ft. long (30 cm) that has the form and shape of an agave. read more
Aloe buhrii (Elias Buhr's Aloe) is a wonderful landscape plant from South Africa with toothless, soft, rubbery, mildly spotted leaves and winter flowers of orange, yellow or red. read more
Aloe capitata var. quartziticola is a decorative stemless aloe from Madagascar that is stunning when in bloom. This Aloe forms a beautiful open rosette of fleshy, tapered, gray-green leaves, up to 18 in. long (45 cm). read more
Aloe conifera is a wonderfully attractive deep turquoise small stemless non-suckering species with tight, corn-cob-shaped bright yellow flowers in winter. It is a relatively small to mid-sized aloe from Madagascar which even as a seedling is a splendid sight, with its intense strap-like blue-green leaves, which become red-violet in the sun. 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 microstigma is a very attractive and relatively common South African species with lots of speckles of leaves and wonderful leaf as well as flower colors. One of the most floriferous Aloes in South Africa, Aloe microstigma is a medium size, easy, relatively fast growing plant, tolerating summer watering and some shade, as well as poor soils. 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 reynoldsii is a rare aloe with smooth, spineless leaves and a short stem, only found on south-facing cliffs along the Mbashe River in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Grows up to 2 feet tall with leaves that are a pale green color with white spots on both the upper and lower surfaces and leaf margins. This species superficially resembles Aloe striata. read more
Aloe spicata is an impressive looking, fast-growing, plant with big graceful curving leaves. It's a South African native that grows on a trunk as a shrub to 4 to 6 feet tall and can be solitary but more often clusters. This sounds a lot like many other tree aloes, but Aloe spicata is branching which sets it apart. 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
