Hexastylis virginica, with its 2”-3” diameter heart-shaped, evergreen leaves varying from green to mottled, makes a great choice for the woodland garden for virtually any season of the year. Virginia heartleaf often grows as an attractive clumping plant, blooming in April and producing its diminutive, half-inch wide blossoms at the base of the plant at ground level beneath the foliage. The glossy, dark-green or motttled leaves are held 6"-8” tall and, when broken, produces the pungent aroma of ginger. Virginia Heartleaf excels in acidic, well-drained soil in part to deep shade along with Trillium catesbaei, Gaylussacia brachycera, Dryopteris intermedia, Iris cristata, and Anemone americana.
