If you want a low-maintenance ground cover, choosing the right plant for your climate is key. This species will thrive in ...

Finding ground cover that thrives in partial sun improves its growth. If you have an area with morning sun and afternoon ...

If you want a low-growing ground cover that blooms all summer, this perennial grows to a modest height of 6 to 12 inches and ...

For a ground cover well-suited to life in southern zones, powderpuff mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa) is an excellent choice. "This is a 'pretty in pink' flowering ground cover that handles the heat of ...

It only reaches a foot tall, but may spread as much as 15 feet. Small bell-shaped flowers bloom in the spring and are followed by bright red berries in autumn. Learn how to use vines as ground cover.

• Salvia spathacea (hummingbird sage) The sprawling drought-tolerant, evergreen ground cover produces 3-foot stems with fuchsia flowers in the spring and summer. Hummingbirds love it. Part shade ...

The tight-knit leaves and small, purple-blue flowers of Mazus reptans may look delicate, but this low-growing, creeping ground cover is surprisingly sturdy. It thrives in shade or sun and in a ...

The flowers are four-pointed (look like columbines) with spurs, and come in white, pink, red, lavender, yellow and purple. They come two to seven leaflets on a stem per leaf.