Modesty
Whipplea modesta
Modesty (yerba de selva) is a trailing Pacific-coast subshrub that mats the forest floor with small white flower clusters in spring, an easy, drought-tolerant evergreen groundcover for dry shade.
- Family
- Hydrangeaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.2–0.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- foundation, groundcover, container, erosion control
- Native states
- CA, OR, WA