Piggyback Plant

Piggyback plant is an evergreen perennial that grows to about 1 foot tall.

It works great is shady moist gardens and can also make a fun houseplant. For garden purposes add redwood compost to soil mix.

The flowers appear in loose racemes in spring with small tubular purplish-brown flowers that attract bees and butterflies.

It needs moist fertile soil and high humidity.

Piggyback Plant owes its name to its unique reproductive habit of growing plantlets from the petiole near the base of each leaf on top of the old leaves. Young plantlets drop off, fall in the soil and take root there.

Lifeform: Perennial

Sun: Part Shade, Shade

Water: Moderate

Soil: Loam

Other: Attracts Bees, Attracts Butterflies, Deer Resistant