Piggyback Plant
Tolmiea menziesii
Piggyback plant is a Pacific Northwest woodlander famous for sprouting new plantlets where leaf meets stalk, with spikes of slender chocolate-and-green flowers. A lush, easy groundcover for moist shade.
- Family
- Saxifragaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- brown, green, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- CA, OR, WA