Plant Name

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Cornus canadensis

Common Name

Creeping Dogwood

Soil

Acid, Clay and Peaty

Sun Aspect

Part Shade

Soil Moisture

Moist and Dry

Plant Type

Herbaceous Alpine

Height x Spread in feet

0.4 x 1

Foliage

Mid-Green

Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit

White in May-June

Comment

Creeping form. Good Groundcover.

Each flower has highly elastic petals that flip backward, releasing springy filaments that are cocked underneath the petals. The filaments snap upward flinging pollen out of containers hinged to the filaments. This motion takes place in less than half a millisecond and the pollen experiences 800 times the acceleration that the space shuttle does during liftoff. The Bunchberry has one of the fastest plant actions found so far requiring a camera capable of shooting 10,000 frames per second to catch the action.

Available from Palmstead Nurseries Ltd and Burncoose Nurseries.

Companion Plants

Ajuga reptans 'Atropurpurea'
Luzula nivea