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Houttuynia cordata |
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| Common name |
chameleon plant |
| Family |
saururaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
white |
| Size |
1 ft |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
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| Multicolored pink/burgundy/green foliage. Real pretty, but wants to run by roots in good garden soil - the photo at left shows the pile of roots we gathered from a smallish garden area, after allowing chameleon plant to roam freely for a few years (we're still battling the plants sprouting from roots we missed). It doesn't mind wet roots, so it can be used as pond marginal plant, but for us it hasn't proven winter-hardy that way.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: pondside About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Richard | Feb 01, 2005 | Please advise me. If I was to place a plant border underground around the chameleon planting bed, would that keep it in bounds or can it leap over a border like Enlish Ivy does? Thanks, Richard... Please email ga_seagull@yahoo.com |
| david mucklow | Jun 24, 2009 | Are there any herbicides that will kill this plant; I'm afraid my wife has created an ecological disaster at my house; how can this be controlled. mucklow1000@att.net |
| Moniquqe Larocque | Jul 08, 2009 | I am having a miserable time digging in my garden beds that I have worked so hard over many years until I purchase the chameleon plant. I'm been putting many hours in the past three weeks trying to get rid of the roots. I read many blogs and it seems that there is no solution to the problem. The roots are so deep and my biggest fear is my neighbours flower beds. moniquelarocque16@yahoo.com Thank you
The garden bed where mine were planted still sends up some chameleon plant shoots - but since I pull them out whenever I see them, they don't have nearly the energy they used to have; it's not too much work anymore to keep them contained. |
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