Silvery Sunproof Liriope

Liriope muscari ‘Silvery Sunproof’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Semi-Evergreen Groundcover

Height or Length at Maturity: 12-15″

Width at Maturity: 15″ or more

Spacing: 12-15″ apart for solid groundcover or border edging

Growth Habit / Form: Arching, Clumping, Dense, Upright

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Lilac-Lavender

Flower Type: Single flowers clustered on upright spikes

Flower Size: Small

Flowering Period: Summer

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: White, Yellow, and Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes, Black

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Shade!

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Visual attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Shade, Insect

Description

Silvery Sunproof Liriope, also known as Lily Turf or Monkey Grass, is one tough plant. Stomp on it, drive over it with your car, cut it back to the ground…heck, we’ve accidentally sprayed it with glyphosate-based weed killers such as Roundup and it didn’t die. That said, we don’t advise spraying it with any broad spectrum weed killers!

Unlike other Liriope that will wildly spread where they are not wanted, ‘Silvery Sunproof’ forms neat clumps which gradually increase in size over time. In other words, you won’t see runners popping up 2 feet away from the plant!

Silvery Sunproof Liriope sports some very attractive variegated leaves of white to creamy yellow with a dark green strip down the center. Lilac-lavender flower spikes resembling hyacinths rise above the grass-like foliage clumps in summer, adding extra appeal. This is the perfect low-maintenance plant for edging landscape and garden beds, or for planting in mass as a groundcover or underplanting small to large trees such as Crape Myrtles. If you are looking for a long-lived, exceptionally tough border plant or groundcover, Silvery Sunproof Liriope is a hard one to beat.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 15 inches tall and spreading 18 inches or so, its neat clump-forming habit make Silvery Sunproff Liriope ideal for use as a border edge along paths, walkways and patios. For an outstanding splash of color, plant in groupings or mass plantings landscape borders and home foundation plantings. An excellent underplanting for small or large trees. Provides excellent foliage contrast when planted under Red leaf Japanese Maples and other trees or larger shrubs with darker foliage. Also a nice grassy and colorful accent in combination container gardens.

Spacing: 12-15 inches for solid groundcover or border edging

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5b, where this Liriope variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Silvery Sunproof Liriope is very easy to grow. It tolerates a wide range of soils, and prefers a well-drained moist soil, however will grow just about anywhere. It grows in full sun or shade, but produces the brightest and whitest foliage color with more sun.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Liriope plants.

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Determining How Many Plants To Fill A Planting Area

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