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Succulent Color Palette

One succulent palette at a time: five colors taken from a plant and its pot, with hex codes.

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Snow ball in bloom: pink and yellowPale blue-green rosette, sage shaded leaves, dusty rose flower stalks, pink flowers, yellow flower tips.#BDDBD5 · #98B08D · #C98797 · #F297B2 · #F7DE3B

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Sage and blue-green 10

Donkey tail: blue-green and tan Blue-green leaves, pale blue-green waxy coating, sage stem tips, dark green gaps between stems, tan hanging basket.
Ghost plant: sage and pale gray Sage green leaves, gray-green graying leaves, pale gray leaf residue, silver-green rosette center, brown trailing stem.
Jade plant: jade green and brown Jade green leaves, yellow-green paler leaves, dark green shaded leaves, brown woody stem, pale sage leaf shine.
Leaf cuttings: mint and sage Mint fresh leaves, sage older leaves, olive shriveled leaf, white new roots, pale gray tray.
Mexican snow ball: pale blue-green Pale blue-green outer leaves, blue-green inner leaves, silver-green lit leaf faces, sage shaded leaves, pale gray grit.
Panda plant: silver-green and dark brown Silver-green leaves, white fine hairs, dark brown rim markings, gray-green shaded leaves, sage stem.
Rosette from above: sage and blue-green Pale sage center leaves, sage middle ring, gray-green outer ring, blue-green shadows between, sand grit.
String of pearls: fern green and cream Fern green pearls, dark green window stripes, pale sage lit sides, sage trailing stems, cream hanging pot.
Windowsill trio: sage and jade green Sage first rosette, blue-green second rosette, jade green third plant, white sill, pale gray window frame.
Zebra haworthia: dark green and white Dark green leaves, white raised bands, fern green lit leaf sides, sage offsets, gray gravel.

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Dusty rose tips 10

Blushing rosette: dusty rose on sage Sage leaves, pale sage center, dusty rose leaf tips, pale pink flushed edges, gray pebbles.
Houseleek: rose-red on gray-green Gray-green leaves, dusty rose flushed leaf ends, rose-red leaf tips, sage offsets, gray rock crevice.
Jade plant in sun: rose-red on jade green Jade green leaves, yellow-green young leaves, rose-red leaf edges, brown woody stem, cream pot.
Jelly bean plant: red on fern green Fern green shaded leaves, yellow-green young leaves, red sunlit leaf ends, coral turning leaf tips, brown stem.
Lipstick echeveria: red on jade green Jade green leaves, rose-red leaf margins, red leaf tips, pale sage rosette center, sand grit.
Offsets in a row: rose on mint Sage mother rosette, mint offsets, rose offset tips, sand grit, brown runner stems.
Pink-rimmed fan: rose on blue-green Blue-green fan of leaves, pale blue-green waxy faces, rose leaf rims, dusty rose shaded rims, tan pot.
Teacup planting: pink on mint Mint rosette, sage shaded leaves, pink leaf tips, white teacup, gold cup handle.
Two-tone leaves: coral on olive Olive leaf bases, yellow-green leaf middles, coral leaf tips, rose-red tip edges, pale gray stone.
Winter sun tips: burgundy on gray-green Gray-green leaves, silver-green lit leaves, burgundy leaf tips, dusty rose flush below the tips, pale gray frosted grit.

Terracotta pot 10

Cracked pot: fern green in brick red Brick red pot, espresso dark soil, fern green spilling stems, mint young growth, tan dry soil crust.
Living stones: cream in terracotta Terracotta pot, pale gray gravel, cream pale stone bodies, gray darker stone bodies, brown patterned tops.
Painted rim: blue-green in terracotta Terracotta pot, white painted rim, brown soil, blue-green rosette, pale blue-green lit leaves.
Repotting day: fern green and pale clay Pale clay empty pots, brown potting soil, tan bench, fern green cuttings, gray trowel.
Rosette bowl: blue-green in clay Clay bowl, sand grit, pale blue-green large rosette, blue-green small rosettes, white saucer.
Row on a step: gray-green in clay Clay pots, tan stone step, sand grit, gray-green first plant, jade green second plant.
Saucer and pebbles: sage in pale clay Pale clay saucer, clay pot, gray pebbles, sage rosette, dusty rose leaf tips.
Stacked pots: sage in terracotta Terracotta top pot, clay middle pot, brick red bottom pot, brown spilled soil, sage one rosette.
Strawberry pot: silver-green in clay Clay pot, brick red shaded pockets, espresso soil, silver-green rosettes, rose leaf tips.
Thumb pot: jade green in terracotta Terracotta tiny pot, espresso soil, jade green cutting, yellow-green new leaf, white shelf.

In bloom 10

Donkey tail in bloom: pink and red Blue-green leaves, pale blue-green waxy coating, pink opening flowers, red open flowers, tan basket.
Ghost plant in bloom: white and red Gray-green leaves, sage young leaves, white petals, red petal spots, pale gray leaf residue.
Gold kalanchoe: orange and gold Dark green glossy leaves, yellow-green flower stems, orange flower heads, gold second plant in flower, cream pot.
Houseleek in bloom: pink and reddish-purple Gray-green rosettes, rose-red leaf tips, reddish-purple flowers, pink buds, tan roof tile.
Ice plant carpet: magenta on fern green Fern green fleshy leaves, sage trailing stems, magenta flowers, pink paler flowers, vermilion brightest flowers.
Jade plant in bloom: pale pink and white Jade green leaves, dark green shaded leaves, pale pink star flowers, white paler flowers, brown woody stem.
Jelly beans in bloom: yellow and coral Fern green leaves, coral turning leaf ends, yellow flowers, pale sage young leaves, sand grit.
Lipstick bloom: pink and gold Jade green leaves, rose-red leaf margins, pink flowers, orange second flower spike, gold petal tips.
Red kalanchoe: burgundy and pink Dark green glossy leaves, fern green buds, burgundy dark flower heads, pink paler flowers, white palest flowers.
Snow ball in bloom: pink and yellow Pale blue-green rosette, sage shaded leaves, dusty rose flower stalks, pink flowers, yellow flower tips.

How this list was compiled: Own work, written for Draw This Next on 2026-10-14: palettes of five colors taken from succulent plants, in four kinds (sage and blue-green leaves, dusty rose tips, a terracotta pot, in bloom). Every palette, name, color word, hex code and part is our own choice; nothing is sampled from a photograph, and no nursery, shop or product is named. Twenty-two strips are a named plant, colored as its English Wikipedia article describes it; the pots, grit, stones and shelves beside a plant are settings of our own, and so is any color the article does not give. What each article gives, checked on 2026-10-14 (text under CC BY-SA 4.0): Echeveria elegans, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeveria_elegans (Mexican snow ball: compact rosettes of pale green-blue, fleshy leaves; pink stalks with pink flowers that have yellow tips); Graptopetalum paraguayense, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graptopetalum_paraguayense (ghost plant: green to light grey leaves with a residue on them; white flowers spotted with red); Sedum morganianum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedum_morganianum (donkey tail: fleshy blue-green leaves, a clearly visible wax layer, pink to red flowers); Haworthiopsis attenuata, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haworthiopsis_attenuata (zebra haworthia: bands of white tubercles on the leaves); Curio rowleyanus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curio_rowleyanus (string of pearls: leaves the size and shape of small peas, each with a thin band of dark green tissue); Crassula ovata, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassula_ovata (jade plant: leaves a rich jade green, some more of a yellow-green; some varieties develop a red tinge on the edges of leaves when exposed to high levels of sunlight; pink or white star-shaped flowers; stems woody and brown with age); Kalanchoe tomentosa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_tomentosa (panda plant: velvety silver-green leaves covered with fine silvery-white to grayish hairs, with a chocolate-brown rim); Sempervivum tectorum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempervivum_tectorum (common houseleek: grey-green leaves often suffused with rose-red; clusters of reddish-purple flowers; traditionally grown on house roofs); Echeveria agavoides, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeveria_agavoides (lipstick echeveria: green leaves, in bright light reddish tips, red margins on some forms; flowers pink, orange or red, the petals tipped with dark yellow); Sedum rubrotinctum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedum_rubrotinctum (jelly bean plant: the leaves change color from green to red during the summer months; bright yellow flowers); Lithops, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithops (living stones: leaves patterned in shades of cream, grey and brown, which pass as small stones); Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_blossfeldiana (green, glossy foliage; flowers from dark reds and pinks to oranges, golds and whites); Delosperma cooperi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delosperma_cooperi (an ice plant: fleshy leaves; vermilion, magenta or pink flowers). Also for the page copy: Succulent plant, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succulent_plant (plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions) and Epicuticular wax, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicuticular_wax (a waxy coating that may form a whitish film or bloom on leaves; foliage that appears whitish because of the waxy covering is called glaucous; many succulents of the family Crassulaceae produce a mealy, whitish to pale-yellow secretion known as farina). The page gives no advice on growing, watering or handling a plant. How a strip is ordered: each color is named for its part of one plant or one pot, and the name carries one or two of the colors; a Terracotta pot strip starts with the pot. Our own tests, not a standard: a Sage and blue-green strip holds three or more soft greens (an HSL hue from 60 to 200 degrees at a saturation of 48 percent or less) and no strong color (nothing under 85 percent lightness has a saturation over 55); a Dusty rose tips strip holds two or more greens and a pink or red (a hue from 320 degrees around to 20) named for a tip, an edge, a rim or a flush, and its name leads with that color; a Terracotta pot strip starts with fired clay (a hue from 8 to 30 degrees, a saturation from 30 to 70 and a lightness from 38 to 82) and names its soil, grit, gravel or pebbles; every In bloom strip is a named plant and holds a green and one or more colors named for its flowers. Color names are plain English words with no paint maker, pencil brand or color-matching system, and one word is one code everywhere on this list. Checked on 2026-10-14: every code is #RRGGBB, each color word fits the hue and lightness of its code, no palette, name or line repeats, no two palettes share four codes, no two colors of a palette are closer than 8 in CIE Lab, and no palette is on another palette list of this site or of its sister sites. The hex codes are for a screen; with paint, pencils or markers, take the nearest color. Licence: own work

How it works

A succulent color palette here is taken from the plants: sage and blue-green leaves, tips that flush dusty rose or red, a terracotta pot, and the flowers. Twenty-two strips are a named plant.

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Leaves, tips, pot or bloom

Sage and blue-green strips are three or more soft greens and nothing strong. Dusty rose tips add a pink or red at the leaf tip or edge, as on a houseleek: gray-green #869C86 leaves with rose-red #B82E4E tips. Terracotta pot strips start with the pot: terracotta #C76D4D, clay or brick red.

A named plant in flower

Every In bloom strip is one plant, colored as English Wikipedia describes it. Snow ball in bloom is the Mexican snow ball: a pale blue-green #BDDBD5 rosette, dusty rose stalks, and pink flowers with yellow tips.

Questions and answers

What colors are in a succulent color palette?

Soft greens first: sage #98B08D, blue-green #72AC9E, gray-green and jade green #3F9266. Then dusty rose #C98797 and rose-red for the tips, terracotta #C76D4D for the pot, and pink, yellow, orange or magenta for flowers.

Why do succulents turn red or pink?

Light is one cause the plant articles give. Some jade plants develop a red tinge on the leaf edges in high levels of sunlight, a jelly bean plant turns from green to red in summer, and a lipstick echeveria shows reddish tips in bright light.

What is the white coating on succulent leaves?

A wax or a mealy secretion. Epicuticular wax can form a whitish film or bloom on leaves, and many succulents of the family Crassulaceae produce a whitish farina. Foliage that looks whitish because of a waxy covering is called glaucous.

What is a succulent?

A plant with parts that are thickened and fleshy, usually to hold water in dry climates or soils. Jade plants, houseleeks, echeverias, kalanchoes and living stones are all on this list.

What colors go with terracotta?

On these strips terracotta sits under jade green, sage and blue-green, with cream living stones, white for a painted rim and brown soil.