| Scientific Name: | Pachysandra terminalis |
| Common Name: | Japanese spurge |
| Family Name: | Buxaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x > 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Evergreen, upright groundcover, prostrate stems; leaves mostly obovate with acute tips,leathery, glossy dark green, alternate, coarsely uniform teeth toward the tips; flowers small, white, tubular, spikes. | |