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Ecosystem

Gardening

Plants for groundcover

• Vine
  Vine
  
  A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
  s, which are woody plant
  Woody plant
  
  A woody plant is a Vascular tissue plant that has a Perennial plant Plant stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next....
  s with slender, spreading stems
• Herbaceous
  Herbaceous
  
  A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaf and stem that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be Annual plant, Biennial plant or Perennial plant....
   plants, or non-woody plants
• Shrub
  Shrub
  
  A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
  s of low-growing, spreading species
• Moss
  Moss
  
  Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1?10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations....
   of larger, coarser species

• Bacopa
  Bacopa
  
  Bacopa is a genus of 70 - 100 aquatic plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It is commonly known as Waterhyssop ....
   (Bacopa)
• Ivy (Hedera)
• Gazania
  Gazania
  
  Gazania is a genus of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae, native to Southern Africa. It is often planted as drought-tolerant ground cover....
   (Gazania rigens)
• Ground-elder
  Ground-elder
  
  The ground-elder is in the carrot family that grows in shady places. It is sometimes also cited as "ground elder", though this format invites confusion by suggesting it is a species of Elderberry , an unrelated genus....
   (Aegopodium podagraria)
• Ice plant
  Ice Plant
  
  Carpobrotus edulis is a creeping, mat-forming succulent species and member of the Stone Plant family Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus....
  
• Japanese honeysuckle
  Japanese Honeysuckle
  
  The Japanese Honeysuckle is a species of honeysuckle native to eastern Asia including Japan, Korea, northern and eastern China, and Taiwan, which is a major invasive species in North America....
   (Lonicera japonica)
• Juniper
  Juniper
  
  Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are between 50-67 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America....
  s of various low-growing types
• Kudzu
  Kudzu
  
  , Pueraria lobata , is one of about 20 species in the genus Pueraria in the pea family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is native to southern Japan and southeast China in eastern Asia....
  
• Lantana
  Lantana
  
  Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial plant flowering plants, native to tropics regions of the Americas, Africa and existing as an imported plant in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region....
  , creeping species
• Lilyturf
  Lilyturf
  
  Lilyturf is a name used in the United States to refer to a group of low growing, grass like perennials that are often used in landscaping for ground cover....
   (Liriope spicata)
• Mint
  Mentha
  
  Mentha is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the Family Lamiaceae . Species within Mentha have a cosmopolitan distribution distribution across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America....
   (Mentha)
• Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
• Pachysandra
  Pachysandra
  
  Pachysandra is a genus of four or five species of evergreen groundcovers or subshrubs, belonging to the Boxwood Family, Buxaceae. The species are native to eastern Asia and southeast North America, some reaching a height of 20-45 cm, with only weakly woody stems....
  
• Pearlwort
  Sagina
  
  Sagina is a genus of 20?30 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. These are flowering herbs native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere extending south to tropical mountain areas at high altitudes, reaching just south of the equator in Africa....
   (Sagina subulata)
• Periwinkle
  Vinca
  
  Vinca or Periwinkle is a genus of five species in the family Apocynaceae, native to Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. The common name periwinkle is shared with the related genus Catharanthus....
   (Vinca)
• Shasta daisy
  Shasta daisy
  
  The Shasta daisy is a commonly grown herbaceous perennial plant with the classic daisy appearance of white petals around a yellow disc, similar to the Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare Lam....
   (Leucanthemum)
• Soleirolia
  Soleirolia soleirolii
  
  The plant Soleirolia soleirolii of the Urticaceae has a number of common names, including baby's tears, angel's tears, mind-your-own-business, peace-in-the-home, pollyanna vine, mother of thousands, and the Corsican curse....
   (Soleirolia soleirolii)
• Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum)

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