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
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- AZ, FL, HI, LA, NM, TX