It grows as a ground cover in moist forests, wetlands and along streams to 1 foot tall. The flowers appear in loose racemes in spring with small tubular purplish-brown flowers that attract bees and butterflies. The maple leaf-shaped leaves form a dense ground cover and the mature leaves form plantlets at the base where the stem meets the leaf.

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 …

Tolmiea menziesii (/ tɒlˈmiːə mɛnˈziːzi.aɪ /) [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. It is known by the common names youth on age, [2] pick-a-back-plant, [3] piggyback plant, and thousand mothers.

2022年9月19日 · Piggback plants (Tolmiea menziesii) are a perennial groundcover type plant native to the Pacific Northwest that is commonly grown as a houseplant. It grows in shady, damp, wooded areas from California north to British Columbia, hardiness zones 7-9.

While this information is not specifically listed in the available literature, Tolmiea menziesii occurs most commonly in mid to late successional forested communities. The plant is sometimes found in association with red alder on early successional sites. It is tolerant of shade and varying moisture levels. Associated species.

Tolmiea menziesii is a compact perennial plant that, quickly growing into a green carpet, covers the lowest tier of forest plantations. In its natural habitat, the plant can be easily found in the American Northwest. It has several common names such as youth on age, thousand mothers, and Piggyback plant.

2013年11月26日 · Slender flower stalks in April to June grow one to three feet tall, and sport small, odd, chocolate-purple flowers. Tolerant of wet soil, Piggyback Plant weaves well with other woodland dwellers, such as Fringe Cup or Lady Fern. There's at least one cultivar, too: 'Taff's Gold' has lighter, brighter-colored, and variegated leaves.

Piggyback Plant (Tolmiea menziesii) gets its name from the little leaflets that “piggyback” at the base of each bigger leaf. It’ll look fantastic either outside in your garden or as a hanging plant indoors. The flowers are an unusual chocolate purple color. You’ll see it in the wild in expansive pine forests where the soil is moist.

Characteristics: The piggy-back plant is an attractive perennial with erect, hairy stems arising to 80 cm in height from a basal cluster of hairy leaves atop a rhizome. The basal leaves are simple with palmate venation with roughly a heart shape. The margins are shallowly 5-7 lobed and coarsely toothed, often with smaller teeth atop the larger ...

A clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial to around 60cm tall forming a low mound or mat of hairy, rounded leaves with long stalks, toothed edges and five to seven lobes. Spikes of small, tubular to bell-shaped, green and purple-brown flowers to 1cm long are borne above the foliage from late spring into early summer.