Pigeonberry
Rivina humilis
Pigeonberry is a graceful shade perennial that bears slender spikes of white-pink flowers and glossy red berries at the same time nearly year-round, a superb native groundcover for shade that feeds songbirds.
- Family
- Petiveriaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- songbirds
- Landscape uses
- foundation, container
- Native states
- AR, AZ, FL, GA, LA, NM, OK, TX