Purple Heart Tradescantia is a purple perennial with plum colored leaves and pale purple flowers Famed for its purple foliage and pale purple flowers, the Purple Heart (Tradescantia pallida) is a great addition to add striking color to a gardenPurple Beech (Fagus sylvatica cultivars) and Purpleleaf Japanese Maples (Acer palmatum or A japonicum cultivars) complete my list of woody plants with purple foliage for Iowa All of these are excellent, slowgrowing trees in the landscape These small trees are more sitespecific than the other trees mentioned, requiring a protected site in partial shade and moist, fertile soils that are Plants with purple flowers – lungwort The lungwort, Pulmonaria spp, is named after its mottled leaves, which are supposed to resemble lungs Funnelshaped flowers are borne in shades of blue, violet, pink, purple, red and white They're extremely attractive to bees, particularly the hairy footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes H x S 30cm x 30cm 13 Globe thistle Pu...