Exposure: Part shade, shade
Water: Medium
Height and Spread: 1' x 4'
Region: All areas
This cold tolerant, hardy evergreen groundcover has shiny dark green leaves in the summer which change to a beautiful reddish-purple in the fall and winter. Purpleleaf Wintercreeper spreads quickly, is great for smothering weeds, and provides moisture retention at the base of your trees. It can be trained to be a climber and tolerates all types of soil.
Full Sun
Rainwater OnlyMature Size: 4”X 6”
Blooming Season: Summer
Flower Color: Yellow
This diminutive wildflower thrives in some of the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. This plant can be a challenge to get established, but it will delight you with its bright yellow flowers in late summer. Prairie Zinnia is long lived and spreads slowly by rhizomes. This plant has interesting needle like foliage on trailing stems. It won’t green up until early summer arrives, so be patient. Once it starts to bloom it’s colorful through summer and early autumn.
Full Sun, Part Shade
Medium WaterMature Size: 3”X 18”
Blooming Season: Early Spring
Flower Color: Blue
Speedwell is unique because of its dense growing wooly gray green foliage. The 4-inch-tall spikes of deep blue flowers with a white eye appear in early spring usually a few weeks before Veronica liwanensis. A good rebloomer in late summer when given encouragement with a bit of extra water. A very vigorous, long bloomer when planted into good garden soils enriched with compost.
Full SunMedium WaterMature Size: 9”X 18”
Blooming Season: Summer
Flower Color: Lavender to Red
Verbena is a vigorous spreading ground cover. Extensive trials across the U. S. have proven its value as a heat-loving, profuse- blooming favorite. The large bright lavender-purple flower clusters keep coming all summer. Let it go dry as fall comes to a close to harden off for winter. Makes a colorful foundation for taller growing perennials like Achillea “Moonshine” and Coreopsis “Sunray.”
Full SunLow WaterMature Size: 2’X 6’+
Blooming Season: Early spring
Flower Color: Yellow
‘Autumn Amber’ is a low-spreading form of Threeleaf Sumac with a similarly clean appearance and equally tough disposition. Covered with tiny honey-scented flowers in spring, crisp green leaves turning rusty gold in autumn and smooth purplish stems in winter, a few plants can replace a front lawn using a fraction of the water and none of the mowing time.
Full SunMedium WaterMature Size: 2’X 6’
Blooming Season: Spring
Flower Color: White
This low spreading form of Sand Cherry is as rugged as it is handsome. Sprays of fragrant white flowers in spring, succulent fruit for wildlife and glossy green leaves that turn deep mahogany red before they drop in autumn give Pawnee Buttes® appeal year-round with only deep monthly watering once plants are well-established.