Ground cover plants (damp)
The term 'ground cover' is used to describe plants that are generally low growing and which have a vigorous spreading habit to discourage weeds. Being low lying they are much more wind tolerant. Growing naturally in windy areas, plants such as heathers, alpines and grasses make reliable ground cover choices in an exposed garden.
Plants (149)
Luzula nivea
Snow rush, Snowy woodrush
Luzula sylvatica 'Aurea'
Greater wood rush, Sylvan woodrush
Luzula sylvatica 'Marginata'
Greater wood rush, Sylvan woodrush
Lysimachia nummularia
Creeping Jenny, Meadow runagates, Herb twopence, String of sovereigns, Moneywort
Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea'
Yellow creeping Jenny, Creeping Jenny, Meadow runagates, Herb twopence, String of sovereigns, Moneywort
Melica uniflora 'Variegata'
Wood melic
Milium effusum 'Yaffle'
Bowles golden grass
Molinia caerulea
Purple moor grass, Mountain's friend
Persicaria vacciniifolia
Blueberry leaved fleece flower
Petasites fragrans
Winter heliotrope, Scented coltsfoot
Pleioblastus pygmaeus
Pygmy bamboo, Dwarf fern-leafed bamboo, Keoroshima-chiku
Pratia angulata
Panakenake, Lawn lobelia, Heavenly stars, Angled pratia
Primula capitata
Dense-flowered primrose
Primula vulgaris
Common primrose, English primrose, Native primrose
Prunus laurocerasus 'Mount Vernon'
Common laurel, Cherry laurel
Pulmonaria
Lungwort, Jerusalem cowslip
Pulmonaria 'Lewis Palmer'
Lungwort, Jerusalem cowslip
Pulmonaria angustifolia
Blue cowslip, Cowslip lungwort, Blue lungwort
Pulmonaria angustifolia 'Azurea'
Blue cowslip, Cowslip lungwort, Blue lungwort
Pulmonaria angustifolia 'Munstead Blue'
Blue cowslip, Cowslip lungwort, Blue lungwort
Pulmonaria longifolia
Narrow leaved lungwort, Joseph and Mary, Spotted dog, Longleaf lungwort
Pulmonaria longifolia 'Bertram Anderson'
Narrow leaved lungwort, Joseph and Mary, Spotted dog, Longleaf lungwort
Pulmonaria mollis
Soft lungwort
Pulmonaria obscura
Pale spotted common lungwort
Pulmonaria officinalis
Soldiers and sailors, Spotted dog, Common lungwort, Jerusalem cowslip, Virgin's tears
Pulmonaria Opal = 'Ocupol'
Lungwort
Pulmonaria rubra
Christmas cowslip, Red lungwort
Pulmonaria rubra 'Bowles's Red'
Christmas cowslip, Red lungwort
Pulmonaria saccharata
Jerusalem sage, Bethlehem sage
Ranunculus ficaria
Lesser celandine, Pilewort
Rosa Hampshire = 'Korhamp'
Ground cover rose
Saxifraga umbrosa
London pride
Saxifraga x urbium
London pride, St. Patrick's cabbage, Nancy-pretty, None so pretty
Soleirolia soleirolii
Friendship plant, Baby's tears, Mind your own business, Pollyanna vine, Irish moss, Curse of Corsica
Symphytum 'Blaueglocken'
Comfrey
Symphytum grandiflorum
Large flowered comfrey, Knitbone, Boneset, Dwarf comfrey, Ground cover comfrey
Symphytum ibericum
Iberian comfrey
Tellima
Fringe cups, False alumroot
Tellima grandiflora
Alaska fringecup
Trillium luteum
Yellow toadshade, Yellow trillium, Wax trillium
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Lingonberry, Mountain cranberry, Cowberry
Vinca major
Greater periwinkle, Band plant, Running myrtle, Large periwinkle, Band plant
Vinca minor 'Azurea Flore Pleno'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Blue and Gold'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Bergenia 'Bach'
Pigsqueak, Megasea
Bergenia 'HerbstBlute'
Pigsqueak, Megasea
Hosta 'Blue Wedgewood'
Plantain Iily, Funkia
Lobelia erinus 'Fountain Blue'
Edging lobelia, Trailing lobelia, Blue lobelia