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Add a pop of color to your indoor or outdoor garden with these Purple Succulents! We have added the best ones to help you make the right pick!

Looking for the best purple succulent types? Here are some gorgeous Purple Succulents that are easy to grow and care for!


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Do note the fact that not every succulent on the list has the ‘pure purple’ shade. Some may have a hint of blue, violet, and deep maroon hue.

1. Purple Beauty

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum tectorum ‘Purple beauty’

The fleshy purple leaves look adorable in full sun and give it the form of a purple succulent flower. Its tiny new growth looks beautiful as ground cover or highlights in rock gardens.

2. Macho Mocha

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Botanical Name: Mangave ‘Macho Mocha’

‘Macho Mocha’ offers thick, fleshy, and purple-gray-green leaves. It has purple spots all over it and at the end of the foliage. The dense flecks and dual colors make it a purple and green succulent.

3. Purple Heart Succulent

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Botanical Name: Tradescantia pallida ‘Purpurea’

This evergreen perennial is loved for its showy, stunning purple lance-shaped leaves on fragile stems. It looks adorable in hanging baskets, mixed containers, and ground cover.

4. Ruby’s Necklace

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Botanical Name: Othonna capensis ‘Ruby’s Necklace’

‘Ruby’s Necklace’ is a beautiful trailing variety with bean-like, long, narrow, purple to green, and burgundy leaves on purple stems.

5. Purple Giant

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Botanical Name: Anacampseros retusa

This perennial succulent produces pretty rosettes of dark purple-green leaves – it blooms white to purple-hued flowers.

6. Job’s Beard

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum heuffelii ‘Purple Haze’

This perennial purple and green succulent forms a rosette of round, flat grey-green to dark purple leaves with pointed tips.

7. Purple Pearl Succulent

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Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Purple Pearl’

This charming evergreen purple flower succulent produces a large rosette of pointed, slightly round, fleshy olive-green lavender-rose foliage with pink edges.

8. Dark Purple Succulent

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Botanical Name: Caralluma stalagmifera

This perennial succulent has dense, succulent stems with narrow and small leaves. The star-shaped, tiny, dark purple flowers have purple-yellow tips.

9. Purple Haze

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Botanical Name: Graptopetalum ‘Purple haze’

It is a clump-forming succulent with spreading stems. The leaves are opaque grey with raspberry splotches in winter.

10. Purple Emperor

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Botanical Name: Hylotelephium telephium

This upright succulent forms tall clumps and fleshy, dark purple leaves with small, star-like, purple-pink blooms from mid-summer to early fall.

11. Crested Purple Rose

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Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum var. atropurpureum f. cristatum

The crested Purple Rose is a succulent shrub with fan-shaped rosettes of purple foliage at the top end of branches. It flowers in yellow blooms in long clusters during summer.

12. Broadleaf Stonecrop

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Botanical Name: Sedum spathulifolium ‘Purpureum’

This mat-forming variety forms a rosette of fleshy red-purple leaves with a waxy gray coating.

13. Purple Crassula

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Botanical Name: Crassula atropurpurea ‘Purple Crassula’

These small purple succulents show off fleshy waxy leaves flushed in purple hue, mainly in summer. Flowers are creamy-yellow and appear in early spring.

14. Ice Plant

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Botanical Name: Delosperma cooperi

This mat-forming succulent produces trailing stems and, needle-like light-green leaves, and purple daisy-like flowers that bloom from early summer to fall.

15. Purple Rose

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Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Atropurpureum’

This stunning succulent showcases branched, tall stems carrying rosettes of dark-purple leaves at the end of the stems.

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Botanical Name: Sedum caeruleum

This mat-forming succulent forms short stems and a rosette of fleshy grey-green lance-shaped leaves. The star-shaped red-purple flowers have black anthers.

17. Perle von Nürnberg

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Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Perle von Nürnberg’

These compact purple succulents have a green rosette, but when given enough sunlight, they soon change color to a vivid blue-purple shade!

18. Superbum

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Botanical Name: Graptopetalum ‘Superbum’

Growing up to just 4-6 inches tall and wide, this succulent is a great option for coffee tables. The fleshy pink, purple, and gray leaves make this succulent purple!

19. Lilac Mist

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Botanical Name: Sedeveria ‘Lilac Mist’

This hybrid succulent is a recent addition. It gets its name from the vivid hue of its leaves, which are a mix of blue, purple, and lilac.

20. Debbie

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Botanical Name: Graptoveria ‘Debbie’

If you want succulent purple flowers with a rich purple shade, then go for this one! It has a tight clump of rosettes that grows up to 8-10 inches.

21. Fred Ives

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Botanical Name: Graptoveria ‘Fred Ives’

The waxy and fleshy leaves of these purple succulents take a stunning bronze-purple hue when kept in full sun. The plant may also take blue, teal, and salmon hues.

22. Lilac Mound

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Botanical Name: Sedum dasyphyllum ‘Lilac Mound’

The blue-green and purple leaves are tightly clumped together, which gives the plant a unique appearance. It takes a lavender hue in full sun.

23. Romeo

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Botanical Name: Echeveria agavoides ‘Romeo’

The clumps of compact rosettes of this plant make its purple shade appear quite intense. It grows up to 10-12 inches tall.

24. Bermuda

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum heuffelii ‘Bermuda’

This color-changing succulent stays green when it is not exposed to direct sun and changes its color to deep purple when it gets bright light.

25. Duke of Windsor

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Duke of Windsor’

The densely packed leaves of these purple succulents give them a stunning look. Throughout the year, the plant may take a green and burgundy hue, too.

26. Large Purple Aeonium

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Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’

This succulent shows off the most fierce purple hue; it almost appears dark purple-black. The rosette spread up to 7-8 inches in diameter.

27. Propeller Plant

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Botanical Name: Senecio crassissimus

Also known as the Propeller Plant, it features purple-blue leaves with dark purple edges. The color becomes more intense with sun exposure and temperature drops.

28. Purple Split Rock

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Botanical Name: Pleiospilos nelii

This small tropical succulent is also known as a split rock; it displays opposite leaves in a light purple to a deep purple hue as per growing conditions.

29. Broadleaf Stonecrop

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Botanical Name: Sedum Spathulifolium ‘Purpureum’

Sedum purple blob is popular for its lovely red-purple foliage in a rosette form. For deeper color and flowers, keep it where the plant gets plenty of sunlight.

30. Purple Delight Succulent

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Botanical Name: Graptopetalum ‘Purple Delight’

This hardy succulent shows off pink and purple hues in a bi-color, tight rosette.

31. Lilac Spoon Graptoveria

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Botanical Name: Graptoveria ‘Lilac Spoon’

It displays charming lilac hues, intensifying with a temperature drop and sun exposure. These purple succulents form a rosette of tubular leaves resembling a spoon.

32. Echeveria Orion

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Botanical Name: Echeveria Orion

Echeveria Orion is also known as E. ‘Fiona’; this succulent creates a compact rosette of grey-green leaves with flushes of pink and purple in full sunlight.

33. Dragon’s Blood Sedum

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Botanical Name: Sedum spurium ‘Dragon’s Blood’

This mat-forming evergreen purple leaf succulent showcases a fantastic display of purple-red or burgundy hue on fleshy rounded green leaves in a rosette.

34. Neon Breakers Echeveria

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Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Neon Breakers’

Echeveria Neon Breakers showcases purple-pink frilly leaves arranged in a rosette on a short stalk. It produces many offsets, which makes charming tight clumps.

35. Araluen Gem

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Botanical Name: Graptoveria ‘Araluen Gem’

Also known as ‘Aphrodite,’ this intergeneric hybrid is a cross of Graptopetalum paraguayense x Echeveria purpusorum, both of which are purple succulents.

36. Cubic Frost Echeveria

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Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Cubic Frost’

‘Cubic Frost’ is a beautiful purple succulent; it has lilac to pink-lilac leaves. When stressed, it changes color to deep lavender.

37. Raspberry Ice Sempervivum

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Raspberry Ice’

‘Raspberry Ice’ is a perennial succulent with raspberry-red foliage that becomes purple-red with age. The cobwebbed leaves are covered in white hairs.

38. Chroma Echeveria

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Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Chroma’

‘Chroma’ forms a sturdy rosette with psychedelic shades of blue, purple, green, and peach swirling together. It also shows off yellow, bell-shaped blooms with its purple leaves.

39. Notah Sempervivum

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum heuffelii ‘Notah’

‘Notah’ is a lovely purple delight succulent with hues of jade green and blush in pink to lavender shades. The leaf edges are highlighted in a bright white color.

40. Violet Sempervivum

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum heuffelii ‘Violet’

‘Violet’ is a gorgeous succulent with a blush red rosette that turns purple in winter. It features traces of blue-green at the base with white edges.

41. Mystique Sempervivum

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Botanical Name: Sempervivum heuffelii ‘Mystique’

It boasts a large rosette with red-brown foliage and a hint of green at the center. This succulent becomes purple-black in the winter.

42. Houghtonii Kalanchoe

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Botanical Name: Kalanchoe x houghtonii

This purple succulent plant variety is a hybrid of K. daigremontiana x K. delagoensis and ‘Mother of Thousands. It features narrow green leaves with purple spots on the edges.

43. Jet Beads

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Botanical Name: Sedeveria ‘Jet Beads’

This succulent plant has small, pointed leaves with green, dark copper, black, and burgundy. The color gets intense in cool weather.

44. Purple Tephrocactusbest Fantastic Purple Succulents

Botanical Name: Tephrocactus articulatus var. papyracanthus

This unique cactus boasts cylindrical, segmented stems with eye-catching purple joints, creating an intriguing and striking appearance.

45. Purple Moon Cactus

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Botanical Name: Gymnocalycium mihanovichii ‘Hibotan’

A petite cactus featuring vibrant magenta or purple hues, it adds a touch of playful charm and beauty with its colorful, button-like appearance.

46. Purple Donkey Tail Succulent

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Botanical Name: Sedum morganianum ‘Burrito’

These stunning succulents cascade with long, trailing stems adorned with plump, purple-tinged leaves, creating an enchanting and elegant display that will delight anyone.

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