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    Ardisia japonica is a compact, low, evergreen shrub that is a good glossy-leaved groundcover for a woodland garden.  Always attractive, it grows even more so late in the season when it bears small, pink, bell-shaped flowers which later form red, persistent berries.  Colonizes slowly by underground runners.
  
    Autumn.  18 in.  x indefinite.
    
   Pink flowers  
     
    Part Shade     Zones 7, 8, 9, 10 |