Vancouveria hexandra
Plant Expert:
Allan Armitage Vancouveria hexandra
Allan Armitage
Vancouveria hexandra
Vancouveria hexandra (click for large image)
American Barrenwort, Vancouveria
Common Names:
  • American Barrenwort
  • Vancouveria
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Origin:

  Washington to California  

Sun/Water Requirements:

 
Moderate to wet conditions.
Armitage says: "Plants spread by slender, underground rhizomes in cool, moist, acidic, organic soils."

Climate / Hardiness Zones:

  Zone 5 to Zone 7

Growth:

  Range: Grows from 10" to 12".

Flowers:

  Color(s): White
Season(s): Summer

Armitage says: "The white, ½" long flowers have reflexed sepals and petals and are held in 10-20-flowered panicles at the end of a leafless flower stem.Although the flowers are showier, it is not as tough as Epimedium."  

Foliage:

  Armitage says: "Each 2-3" long leaf is 2 or 3 times ternately (in threes) compound resulting in carpets of fern-like foliage that die to the ground in the fall.The white, ½" long flowers have reflexed sepals and petals and are held in 10-20-flowered panicles at the end of a leafless flower stem."  

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Vancouveria hexandra is hardy in these areas:
Allegan, MIAllentown, PAAlsip, IL
Athens, MIAugusta, MIBaltimore, MD
Bangor, MIBattle Creek, MIBayside, NY
Bellmore, NYBellport, NYBethpage, NY
Blue Point, NYBohemia, NYBrentwood, NY
Brightwaters, NYBronxville, NYBrookhaven, NY
Canton, MIChannahon, ILCharlottesville, VA
Chicago Heights, ILChicago Ridge, ILChicago, IL
Cicero, ILCleveland, OHCoal City, IL
College Point, NYConneaut, OHCorona, NY
Crete, ILDetroit, MIDewitt, MI
Dimondale, MIDolton, ILDorset, OH
Eagle, MIEast Claridon, OHEast Elmhurst, NY
East Greenville, PAEast Lansing, MIEast Texas, PA
Eastchester, NYEaston, PAEaton Rapids, MI
Ecorse, MIEdmore, MIElkins Park, PA
Elmhurst, NYElmwood Park, ILElyria, OH
Emmaus, PAEvergreen Park, ILFerndale, MI
Flushing, NYForest Hills, NYFort Eustis, VA
Fresh Meadows, NYGlen Burnie, MDGrand Rapids, MI
Greenlawn, NYGwynn Oak, MDHamtramck, MI
Harper Woods, MIHarrison Township, MIHastings On hudson, NY
Highland Park, MIHolbrook, NYHoltsville, NY
Hunt Valley, MDHuntington Station, NYHuntington, NY
Islandia, NYJackson Heights, NYKalamazoo, MI
Lakewood, OHLandisburg, PALawn, PA
Leasburg, NCLebanon, PALemoyne, PA
Lewistown, PALexington, NCLiberty, NC
Linwood, NCLittle Neck, NYLiverpool, PA
Loysville, PALykens, PAMacomb, MI
Marysville, MIMaspeth, NYMcalisterville, PA
Melville, NYMemphis, MIMemphis, TN
Mentor, OHMiddle Village, NYMiddlefield, OH
Montville, OH
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