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Pachysandra procumbens
Pachysandra procumbens
Pachysandra procumbens

Allegheny Spurge

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Pachysandra procumbens

Plants are 6 to 10″ (12″) high once planted. Allegheny Spurge is an excellent native ‘groundcover.’ This means that Allegheny Spurge is most often used to cover bare places of ground and is dense in its nature of growth. It is a semi-evergreen that fills in areas under shade trees and shrubs. The plants have coarsely toothed leaves and a spiked bloom in the spring. By letting the blooms reach maturity and go to seed, Allegheny Spurge can be self-propagating. With a habit that most often chokes out competing plants and weeds, Allegheny Spurge is excellent in preventing soil erosion. More planting instruction can also be found at boydnursery.net/planting/.

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Family: Buxaceae
Sun Requirements: Partial to Full Shade
Leaves: Leaves are alternate, simple, evergreen, semi-evergreen to deciduous, and 2 to 4″ long. They are 2 to 3″ wide and elliptic with new growth that is flat green to bluish green and often mottled.
Size: 6 to 10″ (12″) high
Hardiness: Zone 4 to 9. For an idea of your plant zone please visit the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map.
Habit: Deciduous to semi-evergreen to evergreen ground cover spreading by rhizomes.
Rate: Slow, perhaps medium if soil is loose, moist and acidic
Flowers: White or pinkish, flagrant, borne on 2 to 4″ long spikes in March-April
Diseases & Insects: Apparently this species is not troubled by dieback problems, scale, or leaf spot which sometimes ruin plantings of other members of the same genus.
Landscape Value: Excellent and different groundcover for shade, forms a soft carpet of gray-green leaves.
Soil Preference: Does best in a soft and deep, very well drained soil. Prefers acidic soil with a pH of 6.5 or below, but will tolerate soils with a pH that’s neutral or slightly alkaline, 7.0 or above.
Care: Pinch back the tips of new plantings for several years to promote bushiness. It may take up to three years for beds to fill in. Remove fallen leaves and other debris by gently raking them out or by using a leaf blower. Energetic raking will snap off mature stems and leave gaps in the ground cover.
Fertilization: Fertilize periodically in the spring using a fertilizer higher in phosphorus. You can spread a slow release fertilizer near the plants every 3-4 months.

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Weight 1 lbs

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Cultivated holly varieties will often be marketed with their gender equivalent tree. By their nature, cultivated varieties (cultivars) are genetically distinct plants selected for a particular character or combination of reliable characteristics. This means that while the female and male plants may share a common genetic heritage (i.e. the same parent trees), each plant is distinctly and fundamentally different from one another. Pollination is not dependent on having the marketed counterpart, and any male that flowers at roughly the same time as the female holly will act as a berry pollinator with few exceptions. The Nellie R. Stevens & Edward J. Stevens hollies are an excellent example of this concept. The Edward J. Stevens holly is often marketed as the male companion cultivar to the Nellie R. Stevens holly; however, the two plants are distinct cultivars – i.e. the Edward J. Stevens is not simply a male clone of the female Nellie R. Stevens. Like many male companion cultivars, the Edward J. Stevens was simply found among the same planted seedlings as its female counterpart. Examples of this practice are numerous, and put simply, the practice is amusing. Some other notable pairs are Jersey Princess & Jersey Knight, Emily Bruner & James Swan, Blue Princess & Blue Prince, and Blue Maid & Blue Stallion. It is important to note, not all male/female names can be taken at face value. Sometimes male and female nomenclature is deceptive. A good example of this is the variegated Highclere holly cultivars Golden King & Golden Queen. With this pair, the Golden King is actually the female cultivar.

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The Effects of “Bubby” on Cattle

“Hundreds of cattle and sheep have died here in the past five years from bubby. The seeds only are poisonous. When a brute gets a sufficient does , from five to ten well filled pods, it makes for the nearest water and often falls dead while drinking, or it may live three or four weeks and then die. The symptoms are like those of a man extremely drunk, except that any noise frightens it. Stamp the ground hard, close to a brute poisoned with bubby, and it will jump and jerk and tremble for several minutes. That is our method of telling when they have taken it. The eyes turn white and glassy, and while lying they throw back the head and look as if dead already. Bubby does not seem to hurt a brute so much if it cannot get water. Our best remedy is apple brandy, strong coffee and raw eggs poured down as soon as possible after finding. It is certain that bubby is the most poisonous of any shrub or weed in existence here, from the fact that when brutes have once eaten it, they will take it every time they can get it. It grows on every hillside, along all branches [creeks], in every fence corner and almost everywhere here.”

– JHH Boyd [Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club v.15 1888 – p.208]

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