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Plant: Night Light - Moneywort / Lysimachia

Euonymus · Lysimachia alfredii

$15.00

Size: 1 gal

Light

Full Sun

Bloom

SpringSummerFall

Mature size

8 ft tall6 ft wide

More about this plant

Night Light is a mounded perennial groundcover for shade with green to dark green leaves that take on burgundy tones in deeper shade. Bright yellow flowers appear from spring until hard frost and attract bees. It grows 10 to 12 inches tall and 12 to 14 inches wide, and suits shade gardens, groundcover plantings and containers.

  • Full Sun
  • Grows to 8 ft tall and 6 ft wide
  • Blooms in spring, summer, fall
  • Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
  • Evergreen foliage

Plant description

Night Light is a mounded perennial groundcover for shade with green to dark green leaves that take on burgundy tones in deeper shade. Bright yellow flowers appear from spring until hard frost and attract bees. It grows 10 to 12 inches tall and 12 to 14 inches wide, and suits shade gardens, groundcover plantings and containers.

Flowers
Bright yellow flowers in tight clusters at the leaf axils, spring to frost.
Pruning
Trim foliage to about 6 inches after a hard frost in fall.

Plant details


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