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Good groundcover

Plant Database
Whole yarrow plant with feathery leaves and flat white flower tops
Western Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
an understory patch of vanilla leaf with robust triangular leaves and spikes of tiny white flowers emerging from the center.
Vanilla Leaf
Achlys triphylla
a carpet of kinnikinnick in bloom
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
a tight, semi-spherical cluster of small pink sea thrift flowers at the top of a stem
Sea Thrift
Armeria maritima
a patch of mugwort with thin leaved green foliage along upright non-woody stems
Douglas’ Sagewort
Artemisia douglasiana
heart shaped ginger leaves
Wild Ginger
Asarum caudatum
Tight clusters of small dusky rose flowers and thin green leaves
Narrowleaf Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis
a small blue green bunch grass in a rounded mound
California Fescue
Festuca californica var. californica
leaves of three and creamy white 5-petalled flowers with yellow centers
Coast Strawberry
Fragaria chiloensis
leathery leaves and deep blue-black fruits that dangle from red stems
Salal
Gaultheria shallon
a palmate leaf with toothed edge
Largeleaf Avens
Geum macrophyllum
Sprays of dainty pinkish white, bell-shaped flowers along rosy stems above mounded rosettes of evergreen leaves.
Crevice Alumroot
Heuchera micrantha
leaves and flower of waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Hydrophyllum tenuipes
harvesting cereal rye in field
Cereal Rye
Secale cereale
Stonecrop, Broadleaved Sedum spathulifolium Groundcover with clusters of small green leaves
Broadleaf Stonecrop
Sedum spathulifolium
rosette like succulent foliage with red outer leaves
Purple Broadleaf Stonecrop
Sedum spathulifolium 'purpureum'
Three lobed triangular leaves with a spike of tiny flowers on a stalk rising above
Foamflower
Tiarella trifoliata
Piggyback Plant Tolmiea menziesii Large green leave with small green leave growing up from bottom center it.
Piggyback Plant
Tolmiea menziesii
crimson clover flower close up with field of crimson clover in the background
Crimson Clover
Trifolium incarnatum
Red Clover flower and leaves
Red Clover
Trifolium pratense
Field of White clover
Dutch Clover
Trifolium repens
Winter wheat
Winter Wheat
Triticum aestivum - L.
Inside-Out Flower Vancouveria hexandra Large bushy green leaves with stalks of small white flowers
Inside-Out Flower
Vancouveria hexandra
field of green fava beans planted as cover crop
Fava Bean
Vicia faba
Cowpeas
Cowpea
Vigna unguiculata
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