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§1 Plant
Pachysandra terminalis Siebold & Zucc.
vernacular Japanese pachysandra — species · Buxaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Buxaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Pachysandra
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 34 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 34 counties across 7 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PATE11 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2984676 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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