Mountain Lover, Cliff Green, Ratstripper, Canby Paxistima               paks-ISS-ti-ma KAN-be-i

• Evergreen shrub, to about 15 inches (40 cm) high, prostrate, spreading.   Leaves opposite, simple, linear-oblong to narrow-oblong, 0.5-2.5 cm long, finely serrate to entire, revolute, glossy green.  Flowers small, greenish or reddish, not showy.  Fruit white, 4 mm thick, splitting at maturity.
• Sun (more compact) to part shade, well-drained, light, slightly acid soil.  Easy to keep low by pruning.
• Hardy to USDA Zone (3)4      Native to the mountains of Virgina and West Virgina.
• canbyi: after William Marriot Canby (1831-1904), who discovered the species.