Gaultheria procumbens

Bloom Color: White. Main Bloom Time: Early summer, Late summer, Mid summer. Form: Prostrate, Spreading or horizontal.

Gaultheria procumbens is an evergreen Shrub growing to 0.2 m by 1 m at a medium rate.
It is hardy to zone 4. It is in leaf all year, in flower from July to August, and the seeds ripen from October to December. The species is hermaphrodite and is pollinated by Insects. The plant is self-fertile.
Suitable for: light and medium soils and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Suitable pH: acid and neutral soils and can grow in very acid soils.
It can grow in full shade or semi-shade . It prefers dry or moist soil and can tolerate drought.

Landscape Uses:Ground cover, Massing, Rock garden, Woodland garden. Prefers a moist but not boggy humus rich soil in shade or semi-shade. A peat and moisture loving species, it requires a lime-free soil. Succeeds in dry soils once it is well established and tolerates considerable drought. Grows well under the thin shade of deciduous shrubs or evergreens. A very cold-hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to about -35°c. Plants can become invasive when growing in good conditions. Some named forms have been developed for their ornamental value, 'Dart's Red Giant' has specially large berries. All parts of the plant are aromatic, the bruised leaves having the scent of wintergreen. Plants in this genus are notably resistant to honey fungus. Special Features:
North American native, Fragrant foliage, Inconspicuous flowers or blooms. The plant is heat tolerant in zones 8 through 1. .
At this temperature, many plants begin to suffer physiological damage. Heat Zones range from 1 to 12 .
For example Heat Zone. 11-1 indicates that the plant is heat tolerant in zones 11 through 1.) For polyculture design as well as the above-ground architecture information on the habit and root pattern is also useful and given here if available. An evergreen. A clumping mat former. Forming a dense prostrate carpet spreading indefinitely . The root pattern is flat with shallow roots forming a plate near the soil surface . The root pattern is stoloniferous rooting from creeping stems above the ground .