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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 1 to 3 feet
Plant Spread: 2 to 3 feet
Fruit: Indehiscent
Other: Oblong dry, brown pods
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Vegetable
Salad greens
Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Leaves
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Tolerates dry shade
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Flies
Bees
Containers: Not suitable for containers

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Common names
  • Goutweed
  • Bishop's Weed
  • Snow on the Mountain
  • Ground Elder
  • Bishop's Goutweed

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Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2014-03-30

Date: May
photo by H. Zell

Date: June
credit: Caronna

photo credit:  Salicyna

photo by Frank Vincentz
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: Jun 8, 2009 1:44 PM
Location: Fairfax, VA | March, 2023
Date: 2023-03-25
Location: nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-05-04
Foliage in spring.
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Comments:
  • Posted by vic (North Carolina) on Dec 10, 2013 8:14 AM concerning plant:
    Plant can become weedy as the common name implies. With the variegated species, remove any that revert to green.
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