Best Sustainable Lawn Replacement Groundcovers

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BEST SUSTAINABLE LAWN REPLACEMENT GROUNDCOVERS

* = mow-able and tolerates some traffic fl = flowering

Large scale --

Acacia redolens ‘Low Boy’ VANILLA WATTLE Arctostaphylos ‘Emerald Carpet’ E. C. MANZANITA Artemisia californica ‘Canyon Gray’ CANYON GRAY SAGEBRUSH Artemisia ‘Montara’ MONTARA SAGEBRUSH Artemisia pycnocephala ‘David’s Choice’* DAVID’S CHOICE SAGEBRUSH Baccharis pilularis ‘Twin Peaks’ DWARF COYOTE BRUSH Carex pansa* MEADOW SEDGE Carex praegracilis* MEADOW SEDGE Carex retroflexa texensis* CATLIN SEDGE Ceanothus ‘Centennial’ CENTENNIAL CEANOTHUS Coprosma ‘Verde Vista’ VERDE VISTA COPROSMA Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Coral Beauty’, ‘Lowfast’ TRAILING COTONEASTER Cotoneaster microphyllus SMALL-LEAF COTONEASTER Grevillea crithmifolia (fl) SPIDER FLOWER Grevillea x gaudichaudii (fl) TRAILING GREVILLEA Grevillea juniperina ‘Molonglo’ (fl) TRAILING GREVILLEA Grevillea x ‘Bronze Rambler’ (fl) B. R. GREVILLEA Grevillea ‘Jolly Swagman’ (fl) J. S. GREVILLEA Juniperus horizontalis ‘Icee Blue’, ‘Prince of Wales’ TRAILING JUNIPERS Juniperus sabina ‘Calgary Carpet’ TRAILING JUNIPER Myoporum ‘Pacificum’ (‘South Coast’) HYBRID SANDALWOOD Phyla nodiflora* LIPPIA GRASS (fl) Salvia ‘Gracias’ (fl) GRACIAS SAGE Salvia leucophylla ‘Pt. Sal’ (fl) PT. SAL PURPLE SAGE Salvia leucophylla ‘Tilden Prostrate’ (fl) T. P. PURPLE SAGE Salvia mellifera repens (fl) TRAILING BLACK SAGE Salvia mellifera ‘Tera Seca’ (fl) TERA SECA BLACK SAGE Sesleria heuffleriana MEADOW MOOR GRASS

Medium Scale --

Achillea millefolium* (fl) WHITE YARROW Aptenia cordifolia (fl) GREEN APPLES Arctotheca calendula* (fl) CAPEWEED Arctotis acaulis ‘Big Magenta’ (fl) TRAILING AFRICAN DAISY Carex flacca (C. glauca)* BLUE SEDGE Carex remota* EUROPEAN MEADOW SEDGE Carex subfusca* RUSTY SEDGE Cephalophyllum ‘Red Spike’ (fl) RED SPIKE ICEPLANT Cerastium tomentosum (fl) SNOW-IN-SUMMER Chamaemelum nobile* (fl) CHAMOMILE (fl) Delosperma alba (fl) WHITE ICEPLANT Drosanthemum floribundum (fl) ROSEA ICE PLANT Drosanthemum hispidum (fl) TALL ROSEA ICE-PLANT Dymondia margaretae* DYMONDIA Fragaria chiloensis* BEACH STRAWBERRY Gazania rigens leucolaena (gray-leafed trailing) (fl) TRAILING GAZANIA Grevillea lanigera (fl) WOOLY GREVILLEA Juniperus conferta SHORE JUNIPER Kunzea parvifolia (fl) VIOLET KUNZEA Lampranthus productus (fl) PURPLE ICEPLANT Lampranthus spectabilis (fl) TRAILING ICEPLANT Myoporum parvifolium TRAILING SANDALWOOD Pelargonium peltatum (fl) IVY GERANIUM Sesleria autumnalis* AUTUMN MOOR GRASS Trachelospermum asiaticum ASIAN STARFLOWER Vinca minor (fl) LESSER PERIWINKLE

Smallest Scale --

Achillea tomentosa* WOOLY YARROW Carex tumulicola* BERKELEY SEDGE Dampiera diversifolia (fl) AUSTRALIAN BLUE CREEPER Drosanthemum speciosum (fl) SHOWY DEWFLOWER Echeveria HENS AND CHICKS Erodium reichardii (fl) CRANESBILL Herniaria glabra* RUPTUREWORT Lampranthus aurantiacus (fl) GOLDEN ICEPLANT Lampranthus deltoides (fl) OSCULARIA Pratia angulata * WHITE STARFLOWER Pratia (Isotoma, Laurentia) pedunculata* (fl) BLUE STARFLOWER Sagina subulata* IRISH MOSS Sagina subulata ‘Aurea’* SCOTCH MOSS Sedums (many tiny ones including: anglicum, brevifolium, STONECROP lineare, rubrotinctum, spathulifolium, spurium) Senecio repens BLUE SENECIO Senecio serpens BLUE CHALK STICKS Stachys byzantina ‘Silver Carpet’ TRAILING LAMB’S EARS Thymus citriodorus ‘Doone Valley’* (fl) D. V. THYME Thymus herba-barona* (fl) CARAWAY THYME Thymus polytrichus ‘Pink Chintz’* (fl) PINK THYME Thymus pseudolanuginosus* (fl) WOOLY THYME Thymus serpyllum* (fl) WILD THYME Thymus vulgaris* (fl) ENGLISH or FRENCH THYME

Plants Required* for 100 sq. ft. at the following spacing: Spacing... 4" 6" 8" 10" 12" 18" 24" 30" No. Plants 900 400 225 144 100 45 25 16 Needed

(* quantities rounded off)