Abstract:Abstract: Color- leafed plants plays a more and more important role in modern city green because of rich and colorful. The authors investigated the species and application of the color- leafed plants planted in the urban roads, parks, public green spaces, residential area and schools in Xianning city. The result showed that color- leafed plants 98 species 51 families had been applied in Xianning and the majority of arbors or shrubs. Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Presl., Osmanthus fragrans Lour, Prunus cerasifera'Atropurpurea', Loropetalum chinense var.rubrum, Ligustrum Vicary, Photinia fraseri cv.'Red Robin' which are the most common color-leafed plants employed in landscape establishment in Xianning. The main application forms are color lump planting and basic planted. bunch planting, planting in rows, group planting and area planting。On the basis of investigation and analysis, we raised the application proposal of color- leafed plants in the future.