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help identify this groundcover
I have begun to wonder what this groundcover is. It grows profusely in
shaded areas underneath trees. In South Dakota nearby to Iowa. It has a sort of roundish leaf and almost a perfect circle only lobes around the circle. It has a purple-blue flower and makes such a nice appearance that from a distance it looks like a field of irises. In fact some of my irises in bloom look like these patches of this groundcover. The groundcover is so low to the ground that the mower does little harm to it. I consider it an asset and not a weed. Anyone know what this groundcover is? It grows in shady patches under trees in my lawns. Archimedes Plutonium, whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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help identify this groundcover
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Archimedes Plutonium NOdtgEMAIL wrote: I have begun to wonder what this groundcover is. It grows profusely in shaded areas underneath trees. In South Dakota nearby to Iowa. It has a sort of roundish leaf and almost a perfect circle only lobes around the circle. It has a purple-blue flower and makes such a nice appearance that from a distance it looks like a field of irises. In fact some of my irises in bloom look like these patches of this groundcover. Strange irises you've got there. It's Glechoma hederacea, aka ground ivy, creeping charlie, creeping jenny, gill over the ground, and lots of other folk names. It's in the mint family. It's an invasive European weed. It's really hard to control. I sometimes see a variegated form sold for hanging baskets. I think it favours compacted heavy soils. |
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help identify this groundcover
Beverly Erlebacher wrote: Strange irises you've got there. It's Glechoma hederacea, aka ground ivy, creeping charlie, creeping jenny, gill over the ground, and lots of other folk names. It's in the mint family. It's an invasive European weed. It's really hard to control. I sometimes see a variegated form sold for hanging baskets. I think it favours compacted heavy soils. I hope it is as durable as knotweed. I love knotweed for pathways so I don't get muddy boots. And I rather have this ivy groundcover to mow than to be mowing brome-grass. I wonder if I can get this groundcover ivy to take over my brome grass patches. |
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