It doesn’t get much more mundane than this, really.
I want a plant for my office. Something with flowers, preferably. I get no natural light at all, though.
My boss actually keeps an orchid, but I’m afraid I’d kill that. I don’t have particularly bad luck with plants, I just don’t keep them so I don’t have any experience.
Any ideas? I do like orchids, I just don’t want to spend $50 or so on a plant that is likely to die quickly.
Peace Lily, it actually helps remove environmental toxins from the air. It gets some sort of flowery thing every do often. Dieffenbachia and pothos also help remove crap from the air but they are mildly toxic to pets, so don’t have them if you have pets in your office. 
Also, pothos is really tough and hard to kill, even if you forget to water it a lot.
Do pothos flower? I used to have one, I think - it got huge!
I like peace lillies, that may be an idea, thanks!
I guarantee that someone will recommend a plant as “unkillable” - and you will succeed in killing it!
And the other way around. I’ve got 2 African violets blooming on my desk right now. Folks tell me how finicky they are, but they get exactly the same degree of mistreatment as all of my other plants, are probably 15 years old, and bloom
regularly.
So for me it was just a matter of trial and error. Plants are cheap at the grocery store, or you can get cuttings of many from others for free. Decide what level of care you are willing to commit to, and see which plants survive
An easy one to start with would be philodendron. You can get a cutting in just about any office and start them in water.
Right nw I’ve got 11 plants (and a planted 3 gallon aquaria) in my office ranging from a 6’ ficus to aloe, boston fern, etc. Just various plants collected at various times from the trash, cuttings from friends, get-well baskets, wherever. Most of them are at least 10 years old, and put up with my 2x a week watering, and rare-to-never fertilizing. My office has great eastern exposure. I’ve also managed to kill just about every kind of plant - including cacti.
Pothos don’t flower but if you can keep them watered regularly they can get nice and full.
I had researched good office plants a while back, specifically looking for types that help clean the air and so I bought a Peace Lily, Dieffenbachia and pothos for the office. These poor things don’t get watered until they get wilty and people remember to water them. The Peace Lily hasn’t flowered for a while and that’s probably why but once they get watered they bounce back. They also don’t get much light and still do well. In fact, I think the Dieffenbachia gets the most light being near a window and it’s the worse looking plant in the bunch. Then again, it and the Peace Lily probably need to be repotted.
I used to have success with African violets until someone told me how hard they were to keep alive, now all mine die. 
African Violets are great. Low maintenance, they have a preference for a particular type of soil and plant food, but you can buy especially for African Violets potting soil and plant food. Keep out of direct sunlight, water from the bottom as water on the leaves will make them spotty, and deadhead spent blooms. They come in just about every color imaginable too.
Peace lilies were cool (in my opinion) about 25 years ago, now they just don’t pop for me as much, plus they are in every office, bank, clinic, etc. I ever go to. And, I do like color, not just white flowers, but that’s probably just me.
I always had a lot of luck with my purple passion and bamboo plants. I was in a cube in a long hallway type room with no natural lighting. I had them both for almost 4 years. As soon as I left the office and put them in my kitchen, they both died.
Oops, the 10-year-old AVs to my left are growing in dirt, get fertilized same as my other plants maybe a couple of times a year (if I ever remember it), are sitting right next to an East window, I water them from the top like all the other plants, and I really do mean to trimming out the dead stuff one of these years! 
Is purple passion that purple fuzzy one with the flowers that smell like puke?
I had one for years, but got tired of the smelly flowers.
Deifenbachia. No flowers to speak of, but you can’t kill them with napalm.
A plant I need do nothing about. I’ve killed spider plants, which are supposed to be indestructible. I’ve even killed a few cactus.
There is a largeish nice plant on my desk that’s been here for who knows how long but I don’t dare mess with it at all.
Thanks for all the recommendations! I may end up going with bamboo - space is an issue, so I actually don’t want something that’s going to be huge, it should be able to sit on my desk.
I know what you all mean about killing supposedly “idestructible” plants, though. My mom had something called an artillery plant, that was supposed to be unkillable, but she managed to kill it somehow. She kept a pot of orchids alive for quite awhile, though.
Being an angiosperm in the Araceae family, I would like to point out that Pothos do in fact flower. If is just unlikely that they will do so in one’s office.
Similarly, Chinese Evergreen - they’re distantly related, I think.
The flower isn’t the main feature of these, and it flowers pretty intermittently, but the foliage is nice.
African Violets do flower, though I’ve had mix luck having them re-flower once the initial blooms (from when I buy the plan) die back. They do seem to like office lighting and indirect sunlight.
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Re Chinese Evergreen: the only time I’ve ever seen one die, it was rescued from being thrown out and already had an infestation of mealybugs; I couldn’t save it. Ours are all descended from a single specimen that Typo Knig’s roommates owned (26+ years ago), that had been rescued from a fraternity house - so you KNOW they can survive a LOT of neglect.
When they get too leggy, you can propagate them by cutting the stalk in the middle halfway up, and sticking the end of the leafy bit in water. It’ll grow roots in a few weeks. And the existing roots (from the cut-off base) will send up a new plant - now you have two of 'em. Same with Dieffenbachia (well, I don’t know if those will send up a new plant from the roots - I found out about cutoff/rooting by accident when one got broken).
Since it sounds like everyone is recommending the same assortment of plants (and yeah, they’re all excellent choices), some alternatives if you want to be different:
Potted palm of some sort e.g. PlantOasis.com - Neanthe Bella Palm (Chamaedorea elegans), Parlor Palm, Dwarf mountain palm -I’m not certain this is the variety I have but it’s similar enough.
Spider plant (these also help clean the air)
Depending on the space, ficus benjamina - though over the years, of course, these will get pretty tall. Ours was bought at about 18 inches high in 1989 or thereabouts and it’s now close to 6 feet tall and dominates our foyer (fortunately of the 2-story Dramatic Entryway ™ variety, or we’d be in trouble soon!). I’m not sure how we’d move it; if we ever leave this house, the plant might need to stay!
I dunno - I’ve had trouble with spider plants. They don’t do well with neglect, I fear. They’re not difficult to grow, from what I understand, but they do require at least some attention. So I wouldn’t use the word “indestructible” at all.
When we bought our house, the former homeowners left behind a hanging basket in the kitchen window. It had pothos and spider plant. . I figured out why, when I realized the pothos had grown through a hole in the lacework of the kitchen curtain.
I cut off the pothos at the base, re-rooted it in water, and replanted the spider plant in a tabletop pot.
3 months later, the spider plant was dying - and there was a brand-new pothos leaf poking its head up from the soil. That pothos stem is now about 12 feet long and the leaves are starting to get huge.
I just realized that I’ve been saying Dieffenbachia when I meant to say Dracena, the corn plant Dracena Massengaena (or something like that). It gets a thick trunk that makes me think of canes so then I confuse it with Dumb Cane (Dieffenbachia).
This is not true.
Peace lilies are considered toxic to pets.
Peace lilies, dieffenbachia and pothos all contain calcium oxalate…they are not edible.
What is not true? That I left Peace Lilies out in my sentence when I said the other two were toxic to pets? I don’t appreciate my entire post being dismissed as entirely wrong because I did not include one thing along with the others. I only added that comment about toxicity as an afterthought to that sentence about those two plants anyway, and I meant it more for the dieffenbachia which I think will cause the most irritation. I did not really think there would be pets in the office so I did not go into details. One item being left out doesn’t make the other not true and I never said Peace Lily wasn’t toxic.
Or do you think it was not true when I said “mildly toxic”? I prefer to use the term “mildly toxic” because just saying “toxic” is a very broad term and then some people would think I was saying they were deadly and have to come in to correct me on that. They are not deadly unless your pet has some other debilitation or you are unable to care for it while it heals and it doesn’t get treated or receive nutrition. They cause mucosal irritation and swelling and dermatitis not death. Death would be extremely unlikely and rare. I never said any of them were edible or that the Peace Lily was safe, you seem to have read that into my post somehow, which was wrong.
Had the OP said she was looking for a good houseplant with pets I would not have suggested any of them. Had I seriously thought the OP would have pets in her office I would have been more thorough in my explanations. However, that said, we do keep a Peace Lily, Pothos and Corn Plant* in a veterinary office and never once has an animal chewed on them, including the clinic cats that have free run of the office and could reach the leaves of the Peace Lily and Pothos if they were so inclined. I’ve also kept Pothos in my home with cats and never had a problem and I have caught my cats attempting to chew on them. I think Pothos is probably one the most innocuous toxic plants around.
I’ve fielded numerous calls about toxic plants when people have caught their pet chewing on them and I look up the information every time to make sure I give accurate up to date information. When it is these plants they often do not even need to be seen because they are showing no clinical signs, and I do tell them all the signs to look for and encourage them to bring the pet in if it shows any signs. In 26 years as a Vet. Tech. and most of that in emergency medicine, I’ve only seen a couple pets with severe enough mucosal irritation to be brought in by their owners and they are treated as outpatients, they do not need to be hospitalized, and from what I can recall the plants were dieffenbachia or poinsettia, not Peace Lily or Pothos. So I still say that they are all only mildly toxic. The pet may feel like crap for a few days if it chews on enough of it but it should not die. I think most pets** that might sneak a nibble, stop when it burns a little and never eat enough to cause the more severe signs.
*Corn Plant (Dracena) is listed as toxic in some places and not in others, I think it falls in the same mildly toxic category, causing mucosal irritation and GI upset.
**As long as it’s not a lab puppy, they’re not always too bright about what they eat and could chow down a lot of plant before they realize it was a bad idea.