Osteospermum fruticosum
The colorful evergreen with its striking, daisy-like flowers is used to cover large, open areas, spreading by green stems that root into the ground to form a dense carpet of groundcover. The fast-growing plant reaches heights of eighteen inches…
Oenothera speciosa
The showy, semi-evergreen is admired for its magnificent pink, four-petal, bell-shaped flowers. It spreads in the landscape by underground rhizomes or seed to form extensive colonies growing from eight to twelve inches tall, and spreading to three feet. The leaves are small…
Melampodium leucanthum
This low-growing plant with aromatic, daisy-like flowers has a mounded appearance with narrow grayish-green foliage. It grows to about one foot tall and eighteen inches wide. Small, abundant, white, daisy-like flowers with a yellow center appear on terminal stalks. The color…
Lantana montevidensis
The trailing lantana is a majestic flowering evergreen that reaches two feet and spreads six to ten feet with dark green, oval, and coarsely toothed foliage. It has sprawling stems covered with fuzzy growth. The plants emit an aroma when crushed and can be a skin irritant or…
Ipomoea batatas
Sweet potato vine is fast-growing reaching heights of six to twelve inches with a spread of one to three feet. It has dark green or deep purple, heart-shape, lobed leaves. The variety ‘Blackie’ has the darker purple foliage and the variety ‘Margarita’ has green foliage. Both…
Hedera helix
English ivy is a hardy evergreen with dark green, glossy, lobed leaves growing six to eight feet when used as a groundcover. It climbs to fifty feet when used as a vine. The plant climbs and creeps by aboveground roots that cling to most surfaces. When mature, it creates a
Hedera canariensis
This fast-growing evergreen has thick, shiny, deep green, lobed leaves with reddish stems. New growth is a light green color. It rarely produces flowers, but if it does, they are whitish green in color. Algerian ivy can take over an area very quickly, making this plant an…
Glandularia rigida
As its name indicates, this prolific bloomer, one of the hardiest of all the verbenas, has dark green foliage that feels like sandpaper. The plant develops tuberous roots that spread underground, and grows two feet tall and three to four feet wide. This fast-growing perennial…
Glandularia peruviana
The fast-growing groundcover with its colorful flowers reaches six inches or taller, with a three- to six-foot spread. It trails and spreads along the ground, producing new herbaceous roots as it grows to form a dense mat. It has finely cut and lightly serrated deep green foliage…
Gazania rigens
The gazania has a compact, mounding growth habit and produces beautiful flowers and dark blue or green dandelion-like leaves that grow one foot high and wide. In spring, large, daisy-like blooms appear that come in a variety of colors: red, orange, bright yellow, and bronzy…