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Pollia japonica
Also called Spiderwort, Yabumyoga
Pollia japonica is a perennial woodland plant from East Asia, grown mainly as a shade groundcover in gardens. Keep it in moist, humus-rich shade, since it thrives under trees and does poorly in full sun.
Pollia japonica, known as East Asian pollia in English, yabumyoga (ヤブミョウガ) in Japanese, and dùruò (杜若) in Chinese, is a perennial flowering plant native to East Asia. Its habitat is forests of 0–1200 m of altitude. It is native in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan Provinces of China. It is also found in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pollia japonica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
