Pachysandra (Native)
Pachysandra procumbens
The native cousin of Japanese pachysandra, a well-behaved groundcover for shade whose new leaves are mottled silver-green, with fragrant flower spikes in early spring. It forms a dense mat under trees and shrubs without turning invasive, and deer leave it alone. Give it moist, acid, well-drained soil out of full sun.
- Mature size
- 10 in × 1.5 ft
- 0.3 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5b–9a
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Pachysandra (Native) at its mature size
A mature Pachysandra (Native) grows to about 10 in tall and 1.5 ft 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: NC State Extension.
Through the year
What Pachysandra (Native) looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Winter · Dec–Feb
Old leaves flattened, mottled bronze and silver.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Bottlebrush spikes of pinkish-white flowers at the base of old leaves.
In leaf · May–Nov
Low mound of matte blue-green leaves with silver mottling.
Photos
Growing Pachysandra (Native)
- Grows well in
- The Northeast and the Southeast.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Groundcover, shade garden, deer resistant, pollinators, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Southeastern United States
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Pachysandra (Native), 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 Pachysandra (Native) in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other pachysandras
Pachysandra (Native)
Japanese SpurgeAll drawn to the same scale.