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Dark Green Spreader Yew
Taxus × media 'Nigra'
Dark Green Spreader Yew is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Dark Green Spreader Yew
Plant it in part sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 4–7. Expect it to reach about 4 ft tall and 6 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 10 years (checked).
Is Dark Green Spreader Yew toxic to dogs or cats?
- Listed as toxic to dogs and cats by NC State Extension, Pet Poison Helpline and Royal Horticultural Society.
- Listed as poisonous to people by NC State Extension and Royal Horticultural Society.
Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.
What was checked
Nine facts were checked against named botanical sources, each recorded beside the sources that carried it: mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, the trait tags, and years to mature size, which rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one and is marked so. Soil, diseases, pests, toxicity and the plant's own names have not yet been read for this plant, and its trait tags are the ones a feature uses rather than every word a page prints. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Dark Green Spreader Yew
Plant Dark Green Spreader Yew in spring once the soil is workable, or by very early fall at the latest: an evergreen needs its roots down well before the ground freezes. In zone 5, the middle of its hardy zones 4 to 7, that is April to June, or August on the fall side.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 5, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 5 in April. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Dark Green Spreader Yew get?
4 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult6 ftwideSee Dark Green Spreader Yew in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Dark Green Spreader Yew
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Space Dark Green Spreader Yew about 6 ft apart, center to center, so each plant has room to reach its full width.
Add Dark Green Spreader Yew to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Dark Green Spreader Yew's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, years to mature size and trait tags were checked against 8 published sources on October 19, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources. Bloom was checked as well: Dark Green Spreader Yew bears no flowers, so there is no bloom window for a source to carry.
- The Tree Centerheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, years to mature size and trait tags
- Plant Addictsheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water and trait tags
- Missouri Botanical GardenPlant Finderheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun and water
- NC State ExtensionGardener Plant Toolboxheight, sun, water and trait tags
- Chicago Botanic GardenPlant Finderheight, hardiness zones and water
- plants.natorp.comNatorp's Nurseryheight, spread and sun
- University of Illinois Extensionheight, spread and sun
- Purdue ArboretumExplorerspread
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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