Cultivation
L. maculatum is valued as groundcover in moist, shady areas. It will rapidly colonise an area, and may become invasive given suitable growing conditions. Numerous cultivars have been developed, mainly for their coloured and varigated leaves, including:-
- 'Album' (white form)
- 'Anne Greenaway'
- 'Aureum' (yellow-leaved)
- 'Beacon Silver' (silver leaves)
- 'Cannon's Gold' (gold leaves)
- 'Chequers' (vigorous, silver-striped leaves)
- 'Purple Dragon' has unusually purple snapdragon-type flowers several times a year, over bright silver foliage with a green edge: it grows 4–8 in (102–203 mm) tall in shaded or partially shaded areas.
- 'Red Nancy' (silver leaves with green margins)
- 'Roseum' (leaves with a central silver stripe)
- 'Sterling Silver' (silver leaves)
- 'White Nancy' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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