Purple Pixie Loropetalum
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum ‘Peack’ · a dwarf purple-leaf loropetalum
A dwarf, weeping fringe flower whose arching stems spread low, with burgundy-purple leaves that stay vivid all year and bright pink flowers in early spring, often again in late summer or fall. It's lovely spilling over a wall or in pots, and drought tolerant once settled. Give it acid, well-drained soil.
- Mature size
- 1.5 × 4.5 ft
- 0.5 × 1.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Purple Pixie Loropetalum at its mature size
A mature Purple Pixie Loropetalum grows to about 1.5 ft tall and 4.5 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: southernlivingplants.com, extension.msstate.edu.
Through the year
What Purple Pixie Loropetalum looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · May–Feb
Dense evergreen burgundy-purple foliage, no flowers.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Fringe-like pink flowers all over the purple leaves.
Growing Purple Pixie Loropetalum
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Small space, foundation planting, specimen, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Southeast Asia
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Purple Pixie Loropetalum, that’s about 4.5 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 Purple Pixie Loropetalum in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other loropetalums
Purple Pixie Loropetalum
Purple Daydream Loropetalum
Purple Diamond Loropetalum
Red Diamond LoropetalumAll drawn to the same scale.