Native Ground Covers
Low-growing, spreading plants that carpet the ground, suppress weeds, and reduce erosion naturally.
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Asarum spp.
Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
Bishop's Weed
Aegopodium podagraria
Bugle
Ajuga reptans
Bugleweed
Ajuga reptans
Carex
Carex spp.
Carex Sedge
Carex spp.
Chickweed
Stellaria media
Creeping Charlie
Glechoma hederacea
Creeping Thyme
Thymus serpyllum
Creeping Thyme 'Pink Chintz'
Thymus serpyllum 'Pink Chintz'
Creeping Thyme Variegatus
Thymus praecox 'Variegatus'
Dead Nettle
Lamium album
Elfin Thyme
Thymus serpyllum 'Elfin'
Ground Ivy
Glechoma hederacea
Ground Ivy
Glechoma hederacea
Lamb's Ear
Stachys byzantina
Golden Deadnettle
Lamium aureum
Lamium (Dead Nettle)
Lamium spp.
Moneywort
Lysimachia nummularia
Nitrogen-Fixing Ground Covers
Various species (e.g., Trifolium repens, Medicago lupulina, Vicia sativa)
Ornamental Grasses
Poaceae (family)
Sweet Woodruff
Galium odoratum
Trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
White Clover
Trifolium repens
White Dutch Clover
Trifolium repens
White Winter Wheat
Triticum aestivum
Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
Wood Sorrel
Oxalis acetosella
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