Mayapple, Indian Apple, Wild Mandrake

Mayapple, Indian Apple, Wild Mandrake

Podophyllum peltatum

A native perennial with ornamental features suited to borders and naturalized landscape settings.

  • Palmately-lobed mid-green leaves up to 25 cm wide
  • Generally only one leaf per stem, sometimes two
  • Flowers have six to nine white petals with yellow stamens
  • May apple spreads by rhizomes to form dense vegetative colonies
Size
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Plant Characteristics

Sunlight
Partial shade, Shade
Soil Moisture
Well-drained, Moist, Average
Hardiness Zone
4 – 4
Mature Height (meters)
0.3 – 0.45
Mature Spread (meters)
0.4 – 0.5
Growth Rate
Medium
Flower Colour
White
Foliage Colour
Green
Bloom Time
Spring
Habit
Spreading
Deer Resistant
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Rabbit Resistant
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Ontario Native
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Fragrant
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Landscape Uses
Border
Growing & Maintenance Tips
Grows best in an average to moist, well-drained, organic soil, in partial to fully shaded gardens. Often found naturalizing in open, deciduous woodlands or at  a woodland edge. Foliage goes dormant by mid to late summer.
Notes
Also referred to as American Mandrake, Devil's Apple, Duck's Foot, Hog Apple, Indian Apple Root, Mandrake, May Apple, Raccoonberry, Umbrella Leaf, Wild Lemon. Native to OntarioMay apple refers to the apple-like blossoms forming in MayBerries can be used in preserves and jelliesNote: the berries are edible only when fully ripe.  All other plant parts may be poisonous.

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