Ratstripper

Neat, small, shiny leaves with mahogany-green fall color and clusters of tiny greenish white spikes of flowers in early spring. Great in either the woodland garden or larger rock garden or for underplanting shrubs. Very hardy, does well in rich, organic, well-drained soils.

Rare and even endangered in the central Appalachian states where it's native, it will slowly form a colony by rooting where its branches touch the ground.