Coleus is the common name for a genus of popular landscape plants that have now been reassigned to the genera Plectranthus and Solenostemon. Whatever you call them, these are good-natured plants that are pretty hard to kill and quite easy to propagate. Coleus is a tropical perennial plant that is normally grown as an annual by gardeners. One of the few plants grown almost entirely for its foliage, coleus are actually easier to grow in containers than in the ground, since they thrive in the loose texture of a good potting soil.
