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Plants for Ground Cover (Santolina chamaecyparissus)

Santolina chamaecyparissus Lavender Cotton Sedum album White Stonecrop Sedum spurium Spreading Stonecrop Sedum stoloniferum Purple Stonecrop Tunica saxifraga Saxifrage-like Tunica Vinca minor Periwinkle Yucca filamentosa Adam's Needle C. SHADY LOCATIONS. The following group of plants contains only the most common types which have proved successful for ground cover under large trees and in heavily shaded situations on lawns. It is best for most of these plants to have as a basis for their growth good soil, although some of them, such as the periwinkle and the Japanese spurge, will grow under extreme conditions of light soil with little moisture. For the greatest success with this list of plants they should be well moistened during dry spells. For supplementary information on ground-cover plants, in shaded locations, see sub-group No. XXXI-C.

Aegopodium podagraria Goutweed Ajuga reptans Bugle Convallaria majalis Lily-of-the-valley Cornus canadensis Bunchberry Evonymus obovatus Running Strawberry Bush Evonymus radicans acutus Hybrid Japanese Evergreen Ivy Gaultheria procumbens Wintergreen Hedera helix lobata English Ivy Hepatica triloba Hepatica Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Appendaged Water Leaf Hydrophyllum virginicum Water Leaf Lysimachia nummularia Moneywort Mahonia repens Creeping Mahonia Mitchella repens Partridge Berry Pachysandra caroliniana Carolina Spurge Pachysandra terminalis Japanese Spurge Polygala paucifolia Milkwort Polygonatum multiflorum Solomon's Seal Sanguinaria canadensis Bloodroot Sedum spurium Spreading Stonecrop Taxus canadensis Ground Yew Trillium erectum album White Wake Robin Tussilago farfara Colt's Foot Vinca minor Periwinkle D. FERNS. There is a great variety of ferns adapted for use in different types of soil, both as a ground cover in the open and more dry shaded places and also in the locations where the ground is continually moist. In sub-group a and sub-group b are listed the more important types of ferns which may be selected for plantings where it is desired to use ferns. a. Dry, shady places: