Beginner Gardening: Can anybody help me identify this plant?, 1 by michele__en

michele__en wrote:
Thank you, Mam3--
I did some more searching last night to see that this is also known as a "Prayer Plant" and am so tickled by it.

I aquired it from my aunts funeral (which seems kind of gross... but now I have chills thinking of it).

I found that a Prayer Plant raises it's leaves up at nighttime, hence the name. After I read that, I went back and looked at my plant and couldn't believe it! It's leaves were up way more than they had been earlier. When I took that first picture, I had to physically hold up that one leaf so that you guys could see it was purple underneath. When I went out to it last night after reading about the "Prayer Plant", I was shocked to see it standing up high enough where you could see the purple on it's own.

Here's a pic of it last night.

Thanks again for your identification of my plant. :)