Big Blue Lilyturf
Liriope muscari
A dependable evergreen edging with clumps of arching, grassy leaves, spikes of purple flowers in late summer and shiny black berries into winter. It grows in sun or deep shade, takes heat, drought and deer once settled, and makes a tidy groundcover under trees. Cut the leaves back in late winter.
- Mature size
- 1 × 1.5 ft
- 0.3 × 0.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5b–10a
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to full shade
- Water
- Dry to moist
- Blooms
- Aug–Sep
Big Blue Lilyturf at its mature size
A mature Big Blue Lilyturf grows 12 to 15 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Clemson Extension, NC State Extension.
Through the year
What Big Blue Lilyturf looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Winter · Dec–Feb
Strap leaves duller, tattered, tips browned.
Below ground · Mar
Cut back to the ground.
In leaf · Apr–Jul
Dense clump of arching glossy dark green strap leaves.
In flower · Aug–Sep
Dense spikes of small violet flowers above the leaves.
Fruit · Oct–Nov
Spikes of shiny black berries above the leaves.
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Growing Big Blue Lilyturf
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Foundation planting, groundcover, shade garden, drought tolerant, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China and Japan
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Big Blue Lilyturf, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Big Blue Lilyturf in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.