Epigaea Species, Ground Laurel, Mayflower, Trailing Arbutus

I have had good success with this plant. It starts best next to a fallen log or with some extra decaying matter to colonize in my opinio...Read Moren. I was just looking for a source for more and ran into the following which I wanted to caution fellow users about. This site offers the plant but the picture they show is of spring beauty. Probably not the right plant.
[HYPERLINK@www.americanmeadows.com]

I grew this plant from seed (from Gardens North); it required no pre-treatment, and germinated at nearly 100% in three weeks under lights...Read More (requires light; sow on surface.) Although an easy germinator, the seedlings are very tiny and need close watching as they must not dry out. I grew mine on in small trays inside the plastic boxes salad mix comes in; a clear plastic bag would work too. Sown in early March 2015, they were (barely) big enough by October to transplant some into a nursery bed and some into a small woodland garden. I also kept some in the plastic box outside over the winter; they did well and have now been moved into a cool bright spot in the barn. The nursery and garden plants are still under snow. Transplanting them, especially from the wild, is difficult; growing from seed is pretty easy.

The New England Wild Flower Society Nasami Farm Nursery has been able to propagate this rare wildflower and offers them for sale in their...Read More 2011 perennial list:
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They are native to Massachusetts, where the Nasami Farm Nursery is located, and are the state wildflower. I have not yet tried to grow them, but am looking forward to buying some.

This plant is difficult to transplant from the wild. In 2005 I was given a small piece of Epigaea repens, which I planted in peaty soil i...Read Moren a shady spot in my Bar Harbor garden.
I would like very much to find a nursery where I could purchase more plants, possibly in better health than the one given to me.