Botanical Name: Mahonia repens
Common Name: Creeping Mahonia
Type of Plant: dicot: groundcover
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape a low, spreading plant, with a loose clumping habit of slender erect stems; the plant spreads by means of underground stems; appearance is like a small Oregon grape
Height 1' - 3'
Spread 3' - 6'
Growth Rate slow-moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun along coast; shade or part shade inland
Soil tolerates most except desert alkaline habitats
Hardiness hardy (zones 1-21): prefers locations with definite seasons
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnately compound, alternate, with 3-7 sharply toothed oval-elliptic leaflets; leaves dark blue-green, 5-10" long; leaflets 1-3" long, leathery; new foliage is reddish-bronze
Flowers yellow, in small, mostly terminal clusters; April - June
Fruit a berry; blue, small
 
Propagation:
seed, semi-hardwood or hardwood cuttings
 
Usage:
a low filler for shaded locations, valued for its attractive holly-like foliage, yellow flowers, and soil stabilizing capabilities groundcover in shaded slope areas
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional deep soak; the plant becomes drought-tolerant if grown in a shaded habitat
Fertilizing balanced, in spring
Pruning none, except to keep in bounds by controlling spread of underground stems
Pests/Diseases relatively free; resistant to oak root fungus
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: British Columbia to Northern Californi
Family: Berberidaceae

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