winter creeper
Euonymus fortunei
USDA zones5 to 9
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles dry to moist soil
Size3 to 20 feet tall5 to 60 feet wide
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Climbing
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn, winter
- Bloom color
- Greenish-white
- Foliage color
- Gray/silver, green, white
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Winter creeper (Euonymus fortunei) is a climbing evergreen shrub for ground cover, borders, and hedges. It is hardy to USDA zone 5, or down to -20°F (-29°C). This plant likes full or part sun and dry to moist soil of most types. It grows fast and tolerates salt, and bees and birds visit its greenish-white flowers. Deer tend to pass it by. Give it room to spread.
Pairs well with Bush honeysuckle, Prairie dropseed, and Ostrich fern.
Native range
East Asia.