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Ericaceae
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
Also known as Lemon-leaf, Oregon wintergreen, Shallon, Shallonium serrulatum
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Salal · Evergreen Shrub · Ground Cover · Shade Tolerant · Pacific Northwest · Native Plant · Woodland Garden · Acidic Soil · Gaultheria · Wildlife Habitat
Salal is a tough, spreading evergreen shrub native to the Pacific Northwest that performs best in shaded to partly sunny spots with moist, acidic soil. It is excellent as a ground cover or woodland understory plant and requires little care once established. Avoid alkaline soils and prolonged drought, as it prefers conditions similar to its native forest habitat.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 36 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- White
- Foliage
- Green · Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alaska, British Columbia, California, France, Great Britain, New Zealand South, Oregon, Washington
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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