Actaea pachypoda
Actaea pachypoda is a lovely and delicate woodlander and a perfect choice to create a quiet and relaxing vignette in the shade border.
Actaea pachypoda is a low maintenance and long lived perennial called white baneberry that will form a sizable multi-stemmed clump of attractive, dissected foliage topped in early summer with small clusters of white flowers. By autumn the plant will develop white fruit with a single black dot on each base (hence the other common name “doll’s eyes) held on red peduncles (fruit/flower stems). A lovely and delicate woodlander and a perfect choice to create a quiet and relaxing vignette in the shade border.
Common Name: White Baneberry
Family: Ranunculaceae (The Buttercup Family)
Zone Hardiness: 3-8
Light: Part Shade, Full Shade
Height: 2-4'
Width: 2-3'
Primary Bloom Colour: White/Cream
Secondary Bloom Colour:
Foliage Colour: Green
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time:
Soil Moisture: Moist, Average
Stem Colour: Red
Fragrance: No
Berries: White
Benefits: Bees
Deer Resistant: Unknown
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Deciduous forest and mixed forest with conifers.
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