Tolmiea menziesii

Tolmiea menziesii subsp. var.	Pickaback plant, Piggyback plant, Thousand mothers
	Habit: herbaceous Height: ⇕ to Width: ⇔ to 18in24in 3ft6ft Height: ⇕ 18 in to 24 in Width: ⇔ 3 ft to 6 ft Lifespan: ⌛ perennial Origin: ✈ Poisonous: ☠ Bloom: ❀ early spring, mid spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer	Exposure: ☼ shade Water: ◍ moist Features: ✓ flowers Hidden fields, interally pass variables to right place Minimum Temp: ☃ °Fwarning.png"°F" is not a number. USDA Zones: 6 to 9 Sunset Zones: Flower features: ❀ red, pink
	Saxifragaceae > Tolmiea menziesii var. ,

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Tolmiea menziesii, Torr. & Gray (Leptaxis Menziesii, Raf.). Perennial herb, 1-2 ft. high, with slender creeping root-stocks and some summer runners: lvs. round-cordate, more or less lobed and crenately toothed, slender-stalked, all alternate, those of the st. 2-4 in number: raceme 3/4 – 1 1/2 ft. long: fls. and caps. nearly 1/2 in. long, greenish or tinged purple. Forests of Mendocino Co., Calif., to Puget Sound. — Prop. naturally by adventitious buds, produced at the apex of the petioles of the radical lvs. and rooting when these fall to the ground. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

It requires moisture and does not tolerate much sun or dry conditions.

Propagation

The plant is most interesting for its reproductive habits. It grows plantlets from the petiole near the base of each leaf. The plantlets drop off, fall in the soil, and take root there. It will also reproduce by rhizome and by seed propagation.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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