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List of Plants for Ground Cover

A. MOIST LOCATIONS. This group of plants is adapted for locations where the soil conditions are apt to be continually moist. There are some perennials which will not thrive and will rot where the ground is continually moist. It is therefore desirable to have a group from which to select plants when these exceptional conditions of soil or drainage are encountered.

Achillea tomentosa Yellow Milfoil Ajuga reptans Bugle Alyssum saxatile compactum Golden Tuft Arabis alpina Alpine Rock Cress Armeria maritima Sea Thrift Asperula odorata Sweet Woodruff Bellis perennis English Daisy Campanula carpatica Carpathian Harebell Daphne cneorum Garland Flower Epigaea repens Trailing Arbutus Erica Heath Evonymus radicans Climbing Evonymus Evonymus radicans acutus Hybrid Japanese Evergreen Ivy Evonymus radicans vegetus Scarlet-fruited Japanese Evergreen Ivy Festuca glauca Blue Fescue Grass Funkia (in variety) Plaintain Lily Helleborus niger Christmas Rose Herniaria glabra Herniary Iberis sempervirens Evergreen Candytuft Iris florentina Orris Root Lysimachia nummularia Moneywort Myosotis palustris Forget-me-not Nepeta glechoma Ground Ivy Phlox stolonifera Creeping Phlox Phlox subulata (in variety) Moss Pink Potentilla fruticosa Shrubby Cinquefoil Saponaria ocymoides Rock Soapwort Stellaria holostea Starwort Thymus serpyllum lanuginosus Downy Thyme Veronica repens Creeping Speedwell Vinca minor Periwinkle Viola cornuta Tufted Pansy Viola tricolor Pansy B. DRY LOCATIONS. The plants in the following group are especially adapted for growing on slopes which are continuously more or less dry. The heavy foliage of the plants often forms a ground cover which conserves the moisture and many of them are the deep-rooted types which will thrive on sandy soils where a normal amount of water is not always available.

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Bearberry Arenaria caespitosa Tufted Sandwort Aster ericoides White Heath Aster Cerastium tomentosum Snow-in-summer Dianthus deltoides Maiden Pink Dianthus plumarius Scotch Pink :

Festuca glauca Blue Fescue Grass Gaultheria procumbens Wintergreen Helianthemum croceum (protect in winter) Rock Rose Leiophyllum Sand Myrtle Mitchella repens Partridge Berry Pachysandra terminalis Japanese Spurge Phlox subulata Moss Pink