Plant: Vinca Minor
Euonymus · Vinca minor
$40.00
Size: Tray
Light
Full Sun
Bloom
SpringSummer
Mature size
8 ft tall6 ft wide
More about this plant
Periwinkle is a low, trailing evergreen groundcover with leathery green leaves and blue to lavender flowers in spring. It reaches 3 to 6 inches tall, spreads quickly in sun or shade and tolerates deer, drought and heavy shade. It can spread aggressively into lawns and natural areas and is classed as invasive in North Carolina.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 8 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Periwinkle is a low, trailing evergreen groundcover with leathery green leaves and blue to lavender flowers in spring. It reaches 3 to 6 inches tall, spreads quickly in sun or shade and tolerates deer, drought and heavy shade. It can spread aggressively into lawns and natural areas and is classed as invasive in North Carolina.
- Flowers
- Blue, lavender or white tubular flowers under 1 inch, mostly spring into summer.
- Foliage
- Leathery, glossy evergreen leaves, opposite, elliptical to ovate, 1 to 3 inches long with entire margins.
- Fruit
- Brown follicles, rarely seen, in fall and winter.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Europe to the Caucasus
