A lot of people are unaware that there are plants that can thrive when placed in a windowless room with little or no light. The key is knowing the actual plants that require little or no sunlight because settling for the wrong one will see it wither off and die gradually before your eyes.
In this article, we'll open you up to viable options for plants that can grow in rooms with no windows thriving from the light it gets from artificial fluorescents.
That said, below is a list of 30 plants for rooms with no windows!
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- Best Plants For Rooms With No Windows
- 1. Parlor Palm (Chamaedorea elegans)
- 2. Devil's Ivy or Pothos
- 3. Peace Lily
- 4. Aglaonema or Chinese Evergreen
- 5. Lucky bamboo
- 6. Snake plant 'Dracena Trifasciata'
- 7. ZZ Plant Zamioculcas
- 8. Dragon Tree (Dracena Marginata or Reflexa var. Augustifolia)
- 9. Arrowhead Plant (Syngonium podophyllum)
- 10. Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)
- 11. Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus)
- 12. Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra elatior)
- 13. Peperomia (Peperomia obtusfolia)
- 14. Air plant (Tillandsia)
- 15. Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa)
- 16. Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae)
- 17. Monstera (Monstera Delicosa)
- 18. Spider Plant (Chlorophytum Comosum)
- 19. Cactus
- 20. Creeping Fig
- 21. Ficus Lyrata
- 22. Money Tree Plant
- 23. Sansevieria
- 24. Sempervivum
- 25. Maidenhair Fern
- 26. Scindapsus Pictus
- 27. Boston Fern
- 28. Peacock Plant (Calathea Makoyana)
- 29. Philodendron
- 30. Aloe Vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller)
- Which plants will thrive in a windowless bathroom?
- Final thoughts
Best Plants For Rooms With No Windows
1. Parlor Palm (Chamaedorea elegans)
- Parlor Palm Tree: The Parlor Palm Tree, native to rainforests from southeastern Mexico to northern Guatemala, is a small, compact, single-trunked plant with beautiful, arching, green pinnate leaves. Each leaf has 12 or more pairs of narrow leaflets.
- One of the most popular palms in the world
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A slow-growing plant that will eventually grow nicely as they mature in years to come.
This plant will thrive very well in a windowless room as long as you ensure they're planted in pots with suitable drainage holes and are watered when the soil is dry.
2. Devil's Ivy or Pothos
- LIVE INDOOR PLANTS: Each order includes one fully-rooted golden pothos in a 4" nursery pot. As low maintenance house plants, pothos plants are also excellent air purifying plants that are commonly displayed as an office plant for easy room decor.
- BEAUTIFUL POTHOS: California Tropicals' Pothos Snow Queen is an attractive live plant with variegated heart-shaped leaves in green, white, and marble shades. Perfect for adding a vibrant touch to any room.
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One of the very suitable plants to grow in rooms without windows.
To do this successfully, always see that the plants are watered when the soil gets dry, else you risk making the leaves turn a pale yellow and then drop off.
3. Peace Lily
- Peace Lily Plant Pot: Spathiphyllum Flower Bunch Peace Lily is a beautiful tropical plant with large, oval, glossy, green leaves. The plant produces graceful, fragrant, snow-white flowers during bloom.
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These plants are as sturdy as they come. This explains why you see them almost everywhere thriving under different conditions.
You can get them in small cultivars and those that are big. The good thing is that both will thrive in windowless rooms.
With timely watering, you might even get them to flower.
4. Aglaonema or Chinese Evergreen
- These are evergreen perennial herbs with stems growing erect or decumbent and creeping.
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This list would have been incomplete without this timeless low-light plant. Place the plant in a well-draining pot and keep the soil from getting dry.
5. Lucky bamboo
- LIVE INDOOR PLANT: Bring home a beautiful grower’s choice Lucky Bamboo for a zen look. These houseplants add a sense of calm to any space. Bamboo improve room aesthetic, bringing a focal point to any feng shui, living room, office, or bedroom decor
- LUCKY BAMBOO – a well-known plant for bringing good fortune and one key element in feng shui in Chinese Culture. A good addition as a décor in your home, believed to extract a positive energy into your home or office. Receiving a bamboo plant as a gift is assumed to bring a good luck to the receiver. Lucky Bamboo house plant is estimated to grow about 2 to 3 feet in height.
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You can grow this plant quickly without hassles, even in a windowless room.
Ensure that the pot stays filled with distilled room-temperature water. We recommend this as tap water might sometimes have some hard deposits that might be detrimental to the plant.
6. Snake plant 'Dracena Trifasciata'
- BOWSTRING EVERGREEN: Sansevieria Superba is a drought-tolerant perennial with sharp, dark green leaves year-round. Commonly known as Snake Plant or Devils Tongue Plant, this hardy succulent is composed of strong fibers that have been used to craft bowstrings for generations. As a houseplant, Superba is very easy to care for and delivers a strong statement through its undeniable aesthetic
- Greendigs Snake Plants are forgiving, low-maintenance houseplants, making them great for beginners
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This plant will not only thrive under low light conditions, but they require minimal care and attention too.
Snake plants come in wide varieties—some tall and long while others short and just perfect for desk plants.
7. ZZ Plant Zamioculcas
- 🌎AIR PURIFYING - The ZZ Plant is an Attractive Way to Maintain Great Air Quality in Your Home
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Even novices can easily manage the ZZ plants to plants.
They fall into this list as they are low-light-loving plants. You are good to go with putting them under just a fluorescent light.
Moreover, they shine through the not-so-lit room with their dark green waxy leaves.
8. Dragon Tree (Dracena Marginata or Reflexa var. Augustifolia)
- Dracaena colorama's bright strappy leaves will add Year Round vibrant pink color to your home or garden.
- 『𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗦』 (1) Beautiful live, easy to grow Dracaena Sunray Cane houseplant.
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A perfect example of a plant that strongly detests direct sunlight, making them ideal for rooms with low light and no windows.
Dragon trees are long and slim with spiky leaves. They add a bit of color and magic to your space.
9. Arrowhead Plant (Syngonium podophyllum)
- 『𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗦』 (1) Beautiful live, easy to grow Syngonium Neo Robusta houseplant. This fast-growing trailing plant has beautiful heart-shaped foliage. The leaves are light green and dusty pink with striking vivid pink veins.
- 『𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗦』 (1) Beautiful live, easy to grow Syngonium Gold Allusion houseplant. The leaves are golden-yellow with striking dark pink to red veins.
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The arrowhead plant can adapt well to just fluorescent light. Just be sure to mist them regularly, as they are moisture-loving plants.
10. Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)
- LIVE INDOOR PLANT: Bring home a beautiful easy-to-grow Dieffenbachia for a tropical feel. These real houseplants are lush and green, adding flair and drama to any space. Let this popular indoor live plant dramatically improve room decor aesthetic, bringing a focal point to any living room decor, office decor, and bedroom decor.
- 『𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗦』 (1) Beautiful live, easy to grow Dieffenbachia Tropic Snow houseplant. Tropic Snow Dumb Cane has long stalks and large green leaves with bold variegation in white and cream colors.
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These plants are perfect home office plants and can thrive in even windowless rooms.
They have large leaves with delicate patterns and give your space some tropical feel.
11. Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus)
- LOW Maintenance & Stylish
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A bird's nest would eventually die off if put under direct sunlight. They survive better in indirect light and can even withstand artificial lighting.
This means that if you have a room with little or no natural light due to the non-presence of windows.
They are humid-loving plants, so remember to mist them frequently if you do not already have a humidifier.
12. Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra elatior)
- Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Wekiva Foliage. This plant is as tough as its name! Excellent for those difficult-to-fill areas in deep shade, spreading gently by underground stems. A nearly fuss-free, lush, leafy evergreen that will tolerate a range of growing conditions including heat, aridity and dry shade.
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This plant is an ideal example of a low-maintenance one. They thrive under soft or artificial lighting, do not require frequent watering, and continue to grow for years without hassles.
One last important quality of this plant is the excellent aesthetics they offer with its vibrant large green leaves.
13. Peperomia (Peperomia obtusfolia)
- HOUSEPLANT: Our Peperomia Obtusifolia is a beautiful houseplant that does well in low light and is easy to care for! Its leaves are a vibrant green, adding a touch of nature to any room.
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With artificial lighting, this plant will grow optimally. Peperomias hate the sun. They come in different forms that you will find attractive.
Brighten up your dim office with the small waxy green or red leaves (depending on the variegation) of the Peperomia.
14. Air plant (Tillandsia)
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Air plants are epiphytes, meaning they do not need soil to grow but derive the nutrients they need from the atmosphere.
With high fluorescent lighting and well-ventilated containers, your plants can go on to thrive even in a windowless room.
15. Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa)
- Lady Palm Tree: The Lady Palm is a hardy palm tree that grows in dense clumps of slender, upright green stems. The plant features fan-shaped, glossy green fronds that each have between five and eight narrow, lance-shaped segments
- The lady palm (Rhapis excelsa) is a small fan palm that can do exceedingly well indoors under the right conditions. It grows from multiple stems, each topped with upright fronds. The fronds are split into fan-like segments, as might be used by ladies in olden times.
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The lady palm plants are beautiful, no doubt. They have got great-looking large-sized palms with dark fronds that brighten up your space.
They are great for rooms without windows.
16. Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae)
- Commonly Known as the Sweetheart Hoya or Valentine's Hoya
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Artificial lighting alone is enough to satisfy this plant. Plus, they are vibrant plants that make your space look exquisite.
17. Monstera (Monstera Delicosa)
- Monstera Deliciosa Plant Pot: Monstera Deliciosa is a beautiful plant with vibrant, waxy, large, dark green leaves. These plants are also referred to as Swiss Cheese Plants because of their naturally occurring leaf holes that resemble Swiss cheese.
- Monstera Deliciosa Plant Pot: Monstera Deliciosa is a beautiful plant with vibrant, waxy, large, dark green leaves. These plants are also referred to as Swiss Cheese Plants because of their naturally occurring leaf holes that resemble Swiss cheese
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This plant is a practical climber, so get a trellis handy. As an added advantage, they thrive superbly well under any light condition.
18. Spider Plant (Chlorophytum Comosum)
Quite hardy and sturdy. This plant prefers low light and infrequent watering. Plant in a well-drained potting mix and only water when the soil is dry to avoid root rot.
19. Cactus
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You might know the cactus plant as a desert-grown one that thrives under bright sunlight. However, several other cultivars do well under low light.
For your windowless rooms, go for variants like the zebra cacti, scarlet ball cacti, and Christmas cacti, to mention just a few.
20. Creeping Fig
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This plant can be managed even by a novice. They require minimal care and attention. Creeping Fig prefers indoor or indirect sunlight, perfect for rooms with no windows.
The creeping fig with the scientific name 'Ficus Pumila' belongs to the Mulberry family. They prefer temperature levels of 65-85F and a pH level of 5.5-6.5.
21. Ficus Lyrata
- FIG TREE LIVE FICUS LYRATA: A live tropical tree with broad, violin-shaped foliage. Large green ficus leaves harmonize with any home decor, making this tall fig tree a great choice for kitchen decor, living room plants, outdoor plants, and much more.
- Height at shipping is approximately 34-inches tall, measured from the bottom of the pot to the top of the plant. Ships in a 10-inch diameter grower pot.
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This plant is typically used as an indoor houseplant. With the right conditions in place, they will thrive still under low light conditions.
Ficus Lyrata, with the scientific name 'ficus benjamina,' belongs to the Ficaceae family. They prefer temperature levels of 60-70F and a pH of 5.5-6.5.
A fertilizer rich in nitrogen is better preferred for this plant.
22. Money Tree Plant
- LIVE INDOOR PLANT: Bring home a beautiful Money Tree for a tropical feel. Pachira houseplants are lush and green, ready to liven up your room decor. Money Tree is gorgeous on any tabletop, shelf, plant stand, or in any living room, office, and bedroom
- Money Tree Plant Pot: Pachira Aquatica, more commonly known as Money Tree, is a beautiful, fast-growing, tropical plant with glossy, hand-shaped, green leaves. The plant features a distinctive, pretty braided trunk.
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Native to East Asia, this bubbling plant with robust green foliage is a fitting addition to a dull space. For best results, have them planted in a potting mix with loamy, well-draining soil.
The Money plant belongs to the Mallows family. They prefer temperature levels of 60-80F and a pH of 6-7 or 7.5.
When it comes to fertilizer application, have water-soluble fertilizer diluted to half its strength before use.
23. Sansevieria
- Sansevieria are native to Africa and have elegant green and black upright sword-like leaves. They are also called Snake plant & Mother-In-Law's tongue
- BOWSTRING EVERGREEN: Sansevieria Superba is a drought-tolerant perennial with sharp, dark green leaves year-round. Commonly known as Snake Plant or Devils Tongue Plant, this hardy succulent is composed of strong fibers that have been used to craft bowstrings for generations. As a houseplant, Superba is very easy to care for and delivers a strong statement through its undeniable aesthetic
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The cultivars of this plant that grow best under bright sunlight are very popular that most people forget that other cultivars equally do well in low light. Just have them planted in a free-draining soil mix, and you are good to go.
Sansevieria, with the scientific name; Dracena Trifasciata' belongs to the Asparagus family. They prefer a temperature level of about 55-85F and a pH level of 4-8.5.
For fertilizer application, a reduced all-purpose fertilizer will suffice.
24. Sempervivum
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- Native to Southwest Alps, Sempervivum Calcareum is an incredibly pretty, mat-forming succulent that can reach up to 4-inches wide and 6-inches tall. It has some lovely, pointed, grey-green leaves tipped in burgundy, which changes to purple in Winter.
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These plants have very peculiar shapes that look great against a light green hue. They are sun-loving plants that can adapt still under low light.
Sempervivums belong to the stonecrop family. They will thrive best under a well-draining soil mix with perlite, gravel, sand, etc. The ideal temperature level for this plant is 65-75F, with a perfect pH of 5-6.
For fertilizer application, use a control-release fertilizer.
25. Maidenhair Fern
- Sunlight: Low to bright indirect light. Direct light will burn its leaves.
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The Maidenhair is a hardy plant that can adapt to any condition. Once you guarantee an evenly moist soil for their growth, they can go on to thrive without much light making them ideal plants for a windowless room.
Maidenhair, with the scientific name 'adiantum,' belongs to the family tree of Adiantaceae.
They prefer temperature levels of 60-70F and a pH of 6-7. Maidenhair ferns are slow growers and do not necessarily require fertilizer application.
26. Scindapsus Pictus
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- 4inch pot Scindapsus pictus or Silver vine
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The Scindapsus Pictus is naturally a low-light-loving plant. Also known as silver vines, they are timeless plants that will need just a good potting mix with a humidity level of about 40% to thrive well.
27. Boston Fern
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- According to NASA, this fern is an A-list air purifier. You've probably seen it around the office or out at the mall. It's more tolerant and less picky about environment than most ferns, and can even tolerate a short dry period.
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Boston Ferns is great for windows with no rooms as they find the direct sun unfriendly. Plus, you will not have to fuss over them as they require little care.
For best results, plant in loamy and airy soil.
28. Peacock Plant (Calathea Makoyana)
- 『𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗦』 (1) Beautiful live, easy to grow Calathea makoyana Peacock houseplant. Calathea makoyana Peacock is an exotic plant with beautiful oval leaves in contrasting green and red-purple colors.
- Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Wekiva Foliage. The Calathea Makoyana or Peacock Plant as it is more commonly known is a wonderful plant that can be known to grow up to 2ft in height when cared for correctly. Also named Cathedral Windows.
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This plant is highly versatile. You can have them hung or just placed on a desktop. Aside from being tolerant to low light, they offer great visual goodness with their purple hues with light green edges and dark green outlines.
The peacock plant belongs to the Arrowroots family. They thrive best under temperatures that fall within the range of 60 - 75°F and a pH level of 6.5.
For fertilizer application, use a water-soluble one diluted to half its strength.
29. Philodendron
- Philodendron Brasil Plant Pot: Philodendron Brasil is a beautiful house plant featuring dark green leaves. The leaves have cream and lime-colored neon splotches on them, giving the plant a look akin to that of a fussy magazine-cover plant
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The main feature of this plant that will appeal to you is its easy care nature. Philodendrons belong to the Arum family tree. They thrive better when grown under temperatures of 70 - 80°F and a pH level of 5.0 - 6.0 with an average high humidity level.
They prefer indoor lighting and loose, well-drained soil to grow well.
30. Aloe Vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller)
- LIVE INDOOR PLANT: Bring home a beautiful Aloe Vera to add a relaxing, calm feel to any space. Aloe houseplants are natural air purifiers that help keep your indoor air fresh and clean. Perfect size tabletop, shelf, living room, office, or bedroom decor
- Live Aloe Vera Aloe Barbadensis 8"-12"+ Aloe in 3.5" Pot Great for landscaping. Approximately 6"-8" bottom of pot to top of plant. But can be larger. Perfect for planting indoors or out. Medicinal. Great for gifting!
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Just plant the aloe vera in a well-draining potting mix and an average to the high humidity level of about 80%, and they would go on to thrive even under low light conditions.
Asides from the beauty the plant offers, they also make great natural medicine ingredients.
The Aloe Vera plant belongs to Asphodelaceae. They thrive best in temperatures of 55 - 80°F in a soil pH level of 7 - 8.5.
For fertilizer application, use a liquid houseplant mix.
Which plants will thrive in a windowless bathroom?
This is a pretty tough one, as you have to ensure that the plants can tolerate the awkward combination of high humidity and low light levels.
Plants that fit this bill the closest include the peace lily, aloe vera, Boston ferns, English Ivy, etc.
Final thoughts
Don't get it twisted; sufficient sunlight is a requirement for plants to photosynthesize, bring forth flowers, and thrive.
At the same time, some plants are very sturdy and capable of adapting to unfavorable conditions.
If your room at home is without a window and the only source of lighting that you have are artificial fluorescents, the plants listed up there can help brighten not just your space but your mood also.
