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Perennial Plant Feature–Wild Ginger

By Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor University of Vermont

The Wild Gingers (genus Asarum) are excellent perennials to mass in shady or wooded areas for groundcovers. Given moist, well-drained soil in part to full shade, they are low maintenance.

Wild Gingers are six to 10 inches tall and spread 12

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Lantana

Lantana is commonly grown as a sun loving flowering annual in South Carolina. A few cultivars are reliably perennial throughout much of the state. More are perennial near the coast. All are tough, resilient plants that thrive in hot weather and bloom profusely from spring until frost.

Lantanas are very attractive to

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Verbena

Verbenas are long blooming annual or perennial flowers that possess the virtues of heat tolerance and an extremely long bloom season. Many perennial verbenas are relatively short lived, but their vigor and heavy flowering make up for this defect. They do well grown as annual flowering plants also, since they bloom quickly during

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