Houttunyia

This plant grows along the back of our house in the shade. My husband picked this up somewhere along the line, quite a few years ago now. It is a pretty plant when it blooms, but it is slowly taking over the whole space, as it is a ground cover. I really didn't know what this plant was until I posted this on Facebook in one of my albums and a cousin, who is very botanical minded looked it up. This plant is actually native to Viet Nam and other places in SE Asia. I did not know that until now. There is another variety that has multi colored leaves, but this one is just green. I think we are going to have to get it out of the bed, as it is taking over.

Happy Weekend, Blippers!

Wikipedia says this:
Houttuynia is a genus of two species in the Saururaceae native to Southeast Asia. One species, H. cordata, is widely cultivated as a culinary herb. The genus was originally described in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg when he formally described H. cordata as the only species. It remained a monotypic genus until 2001 when Zheng Yin Zhu and Shi Liang Zhang discovered and described a second species native to China,