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Tolmiea menziesii
Also called Pick-a-back-plant, Piggy-back plant, Thousand mothers, Piggyback Plant, Pig A Back Plant
Youth on age is a perennial woodland plant from the Pacific Northwest, grown for its leaves and the plantlets that form on them. It likes moist, shaded conditions and is widely grown as a houseplant or groundcover.
Tolmiea menziesii () is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. It is known by the common names youth on age, pick-a-back-plant, piggyback plant, and thousand mothers.
It is a perennial plant native to the West Coast of North America, occurring in northern California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and southern Alaska. It occurs as a naturalised plant or garden escapee in Scotland, parts of Wales, Northern Ireland and northern and western parts of England.
Tolmiea menziesii is commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use as a house plant or planted as a groundcover in gardens. It requires moisture and does not tolerate much sun or dryness.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tolmiea menziesii 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.
