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Liriope muscari (big blue lilyturf)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Liriope muscari is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plants from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass. It is a perennial with grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
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Infraspecies

Liriope muscari var. muscari
Liriope muscari var. stolonifera

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Bloom Period [2]  Late Summer
Drought Tolerance [2]  Medium
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [2]  High
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [2]  5 months
Growth Form [2]  Rhizomatous
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [2]  Moderate
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Container, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  None
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [3]  A good drought tolerant evergreen ground cover plant; Rather slow to spread though, needing weeding for the first year or two; Plants should be spaced about 30cm apart each way;
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  Rapid
Flower Color [2]  Blue
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Black
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [3]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [3]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Water Use [2]  Low
View Plants For A Future Record : Liriope muscari

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  

Predators

Abgrallaspis cyanophylli (cyanophyllum scale)[5]
Pinnaspis aspidistrae[5]
Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (false oleander scale)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0