Tolmiea menziesii
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Piggyback Plant
Piggyback plant is an evergreen perennial that grows to about 1 foot tall.
It works great is shady moist gardens and can also make a fun houseplant. For garden purposes add redwood compost to soil mix.
The flowers appear in loose racemes in spring with small tubular purplish-brown flowers that attract bees and butterflies.
It needs moist fertile soil and high humidity.
Piggyback Plant owes its name to its unique reproductive habit of growing plantlets from the petiole near the base of each leaf on top of the old leaves. Young plantlets drop off, fall in the soil and take root there.
Lifeform: Perennial
Sun: Part Shade, Shade
Water: Moderate
Soil: Loam
| Container | 4", D-16 |
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| Ecological Value | Spring flowers host butterflies and bees. |
| Historical Uses | The Cowlitz have used it as a Poultice of fresh leaves and applied to boils. |
| Distribution | It is native to the west coast of North America |
| Elevation | 50 to 4005 ft |
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| Habitat | It grows as a ground cover in moist forests, wetlands and along streams. |
