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In contrast to Striatum, the classic variegated Solomon's seal is discrete and elegant.
Just a thin orderly perimeter of white to each leaf, not the jubilant and vivid markings of Striatum: Stripes, please, and not strident ones either, thank you. And with that double-strand of pearls, I mean flowers, running down the underside of the stem? Elegant indeed.
Not a problem with me: I've got that elegant-and-subtle gene too, and sometimes even let it out to play. And to work: Unlike Striatum, Variegatum is thick-growing. Combine that with its larger, rounder, and overlapping leaves, and diligent outward growth—all the stems face outward, to the ground that will shortly be colonized—and you get an excellent and even large-scale groundcover. Just don't plant it near anything smaller, which the overhanging and overlapping growth will effectively smother.