‘Monroe’s White’ Liriope (Lilyturf)

Liriope muscari ‘Monroe’s White’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Perennial

Height at Maturity: 14-18″

Width at Maturity: 18″
Spacing: 12-15″ for mass plantings, 24″ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Arching, Clumping, Grassy, Mounding, Upright, Vase/Fountain Shape

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: White

Flowering Period: Summer

Flower Type: Single, clustered on spikes

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes

Berry Color: Black

Sun Needs: Full or Mostly Shade, Morning Sun w/Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun or Dappled Shade

Water Needs: Average to Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy (amended), Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-Drained Moist or Well Drained Dry

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Butterflies, Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Wet Soil

Description

Monroe’s White Liriope is a grass-like evergreen perennial featuring full and pretty milky white flower spikes that rise above rich green, grassy foliage clumps in summer. The flowers are followed by attractive black berries. Liriope are evergreen perennials of the lily family that are one of the most widely used groundcover plants in existence – and for very good reason. Unlike other Liriope varieties that spread wildly, Monroe’s White forms neat clumps that gradually increase in size over time, making it a perfect choice for use as a border along walkways and paths or landscape beds. The butterflies and hummingbirds will love the flowers and thank you for planting this one!

Note: Monroe’s White prefers growing in part shade to full shade. Early to mid morning sun or filtered sun is okay.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 14 to 18″ tall and 18″ wide in a grassy mound, Monroe’s White Liriope is ideal for use in the shady areas of the landscape as an accent, a border edger along paths, walkways and patios, as a groundcover in shady home foundation plantings and under the canopies of shade trees. Also serves nicely as a grassy accent in combination container gardens. A fine addition to white theme gardens, butterfly gardens, hummingbird gardens, and shade gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 12 to 15 inches apart for mass planting or solid border edger

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Liriope 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

Monroe’s White Liriope is exceptionally easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and shade to part shade. Some morning sun or all-day heavily filtered sun is fine, but avoid the direct afternoon sun. Constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Liriope plants.

How To Plant Liriope

How To Fertilize, Prune & Water Liriope Plants

How To Measure Square Feet of A Planting Area

Determining How Many Plants To Fill A Planting Area

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I purchased these Liriope because I had them at my home in Paradise, CA which burned in 2018. I’m trying to replace some of the plants that I had in zone 9, and now I live in zone 8a/9 depending on the websites for plants.
I came across Wilson Bros. and gave them a try. I have never, and I mean never, purchased a plant through the mail. Where I lived in Paradise, we had a local gardener around the corner. Where I live now, is a bit in the sticks plus with Covid, I realized that I needed to try online plants.
The Wilson Bros. website is easy to use, and to coordinate plants that might go together with their “other customers also purchased” or “may we suggest”. I have gone to their site for plants time and again and I have never been disappointed. Every plant that I have purchased, and there have been a minimum of 20, have arrived well packaged, and cared for. My Liriope looked very healthy and I know that I will have blooms this spring because they have retained their blades of leaves (that’s if I can keep the dogs from tromping on them). If anyone has questions or concerns about buying from Wilson Bros. please read this review. I’m very serious about my plants, and they are very serious about the plants they send and the customer.————————–WOW!!! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks so much for the kind words and awesome review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Plants were in great shape when I received them and so far they are doing great!———————————————–Hi Diane, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Monroe’s White Liriope. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂
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