Verdalia
Photo: (c) Amanda Fisher, some rights reserved (CC BY) —CC BY

Nerve plant

Fittonia albivenis

UncommonTropicalModerateSafe

A tropical houseplant. Prefers partial shade. Wants a moisture-retentive substrate. As a species it wants water about every 4 days. Not known to be toxic.

Nerve plant: how often should you water it?

~4days between waterings

That’s the interval our references converge on for this species indoors: roughly every 4 days between waterings, adjusted for your light and your season.

What we do and don’t publish

Why we don’t give you a date.

We publish the interval this species usually wants. We don’t publish a date for your plant — nothing here measures it. The interval is a starting point you adjust from what you actually log.

Start trackingLog a watering, and the interval starts adjusting to your home.
Guidance is curated against general horticultural references including the RHS, the Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder, and university extension services. Each field is either published or left empty — never estimated.

Care cadences

WWaterEvery ~4 days
FFertilizeEvery ~21 days
MMistEvery ~3 days
RRepotEvery ~730 days

Not established for this species: clean leaves. We’d rather leave them empty than guess.

What’s known about this species

Light

ExposurePartial shade
Tolerates direct sunNo
Daily light target8 mol/m²/day

Environment

Ideal temperature22 °C
min 18 °Cmax 27 °C
Humidity5080% RH

Soil & pot

Drainageretentive

Pot with drainage and a moisture-retentive mix; keep consistently moist. Ideal for terrariums. Repot annually.

Toxicity

SafePet-safe

Non-toxic to humans and pets per ASPCA.

A short profile, on purpose

2 of the fields we publish aren’t established for this species in the references we trust. Empty means unknown — not zero, and not a guess.

Suggest a correction

The species’ year

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
GrowingDormantRepotFeed

A typical year for this species in a temperate northern home. It shifts with your light and your latitude — we don’t track your plant’s season, so treat this as rhythm, not schedule.

Keep this species honest in your own log.

Verdalia holds the interval, your log moves it. Free to start.

Start tracking

Verdalia publishes species guidance curated from horticultural references. It does not measure your plant — you log what you do, and the intervals adjust to what you log. Suggest a correction