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Touchable Plants

By Susan Morgan, HGTV.com
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Other plants to consider:

Seedheads

  • Ornamental onion (Allium)
  • Money plant (Lunaria annua)
  • Love-in-a-puff (Cardiospermum halicacabum)
  • Northern sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
  • Hare's tail grass (Lagurus ovatus)

    Interesting foliage

  • Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)--leathery foliage with fuzzy undersides
  • Amsonia (Amsonia tabernaemontana)--fine-textured foliage
  • Tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata)--fine-textured foliage
  • Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica)--fine-textured foliage reacts instantly to touch (this behavior is known as seismonastic movements).
  • Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)--fine-textured foliage that smells like licorice.
  • Cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit)--fine-textured foliage
  • Pigsqueak (Bergenia cordifolia)--the waxy leaves squeak when the thumb and forefinger are rubbed across the leaf.
  • Wormwood (Artemisia sp.)--fine-textured foliage
  • Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)--fine-textured, fragrant foliage


    • Chenille Plant

    Lotus

    Passion Flower

    Blood Lily

    Jerusalem Sage


    Verbascum

    Mexican Feather Grass

    Magnolia

    Coast Silk-tassel

    Birchbark Cherry


    Agave

    Other touchables

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