Rapidly Spreading Plants - Displayed by Common Name in Ascending Order

Leptinella is a fast growing colorful ground cover that is easy to grow and makes an ideal lawn replacement for small areas. In late spring, the carpet is covered with tiny yellow button-like flowers that contrast nicely with the two-toned foliage.

Toasted-brown, bottlebrush plumes rise just above rich-green, arching blades beginning in mid-summer. Fountain grasses add a calming atmosphere as they sway with a summer breeze. Pennisetum Cayenne is a sterile introduction that does not self-sow. Beautiful planted in sweeping masses or as a specimen plant. Perfect for full sun borders. The seed heads can be used as a lovely addition to fresh and dried flower arrangements. Developed by Wayne Hanna at the University of Georgia, it is the longest and latest flowering of his introductions.

Charming pink-inted 8” foxtail plumes in mid-summer rise just above the slender arching bright green blades. It quickly becomes a beefy specimen. Foliage turns golden tan in fall. Does not self-seed. Pennisetum Etouffee™ is beautiful planted in sweeping masses but also shines as a specimen plant. Perfect for full-sun borders. The seed heads can be used as a lovely addition to fresh and dried flower arrangements. Developed by Wayne Hanna at the University of Georgia, it flowers well into fall.

Ideal for space-challenged gardens! Those with smaller garden spaces can now incorporate the pleasing texture and drama of ornamental grasses with this petite sweetheart. Appealing, soft taupe, upright seed heads rise above tidy mounds of arching foliage. Will not self-sow. The smallest of the sterile hybrids developed by Wayne Hanna at the University of Georgia. Perfect for full-sun borders. The seed heads can be used as a lovely addition to fresh and dried flower arrangements.

An iridescent sweep of silvery lavender-pink Daisies cools sunny garden hot spots, complementing the brilliant flowers of late spring companions. They love it hot, sunny, and dry so make sure to plant them in well-drained locations, such as rock gardens or gravelly slopes. Dry feet in winter are a must for Ice Plants.

Blue-violet flowers appear in early spring, carpeting the native woodland garden or shaded perennial border. Will naturalize, spreading to form a beautiful native groundcover.

German Ivy is popular as an annual vine and houseplant. The lush, glossy foliage is similar in appearance to English Ivy and works well as a filler in annual combinations, or solo trailing from a hanging basket. Provide bright light and good air circulation if overwintering indoors.

A silver-grey carpet of pointed leaves covered liberally in early summer with masses of crisp white silky flowers with an almost luminous quality. Foliage is a useful, year-round contrast to stronger colors.

An undemanding groundcover for full sun and poor soil. In other words, a dream come true! Highly valued for its woolly gray foliage, ‘Snow in Summer’ lives up to its name in late spring and early summer when the foliage is smothered in luminous white flowers.Though Cerastium can be a rapidly spreading groundcover, ‘Yo Yo’ has a more restrained, compact habit, making it easier to control. Try growing it in pockets of stone walls, on slopes, or in poor, dry soil where other perennials struggle.

This trailing vine and groundcover has soft green leaves edged with a creamy white color along the outer boarder. May be potted up as an indoor houseplant or can be planted in outdoor containers with other plants to add a touch of trailing, variegated foliage. Deer resistant.

Dark green leaves with unevenly variegated yellow-green centers.

The quintessential component plant with green and white variegated leaves and pale lavender flowers.

Dark green leaves with creamy white center and violet spring flowers.

Vigorous perennial bearing fluffy-looking, bluish-purple flowerheads, often occuring in large stands. Resembles the nonnative annual ageratum sold as a bedding plant for flower gardens. That plant, however, is an annual with fibrous roots, while mist flower is a vigorous perennial with a mass of interwoven rhizomes.