The flowers are small, white, produced several together on a terminal raceme 2–3 cm long.

Pachysandra procumbens is a shrubby ground cover which grows 8-12" tall and spreads indefinitely by rhizomes to form a dense carpet of matte blue-green leaves mottled with purple and white.

It is native to woodlands from North Carolina and Kentucky south to Florida and Texas.

Ovate to suborbicular leaves (to 3" long) are coarsely toothed at the apex but untoothed at the base.

Specific epithet from Latin means trailing in reference to the rhizomatous ground cover habit.