Hemiandra pungens, commonly known as snakebush, is a shrub or trailing plant that is endemic to southwestern Western Australia.
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Gibasis geniculata, also known as Tahitian bridal veil, is a trailing plant in the family Commelinaceae that is native to the West Indies, southwest Texas, Argentina and Mexico.
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Any plant of the genus Mitella. :Moneywort - loosestrife. Herb twopence, an evergreen trailing plant. A popular name for various plants of the genus Lysimachia, especially Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, Primulaceae.
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Pilea involucrata, commonly called the friendship plant, is a bushy trailing plant which is sometimes cultivated, especially where high humidity can be provided, such as in a terrarium. It is native to Central and South America.
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Galium aschenbornii is a climbing or trailing plant, with leaves in whorls of four, each leaf being long. Its flowers are typically red or pink (occasionally white, yellow or greenish) and actinomorphic with elongated corolla lobes, although few flowers are normally produced.
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Peperomia rotundifolia, also known as jade necklace, trailing jade, creeping buttons and round leaf Peperomia, is a trailing plant species of peperomia native to the tropical rainforest of South America. It was first described by Carl von Linné, and got its current name from Carl Sigismund Kunth.
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Springbeauty is a perennial plant, overwintering through a tuberous root. It is a trailing plant growing to long. The leaves are slender lanceolate, long and broad, with a long petiole. The flowers are in diameter with five pale pink or white (rarely yellow) petals, and reflect UV light.
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Ranging in height from 5 cm to 100 cm, it occurs on rock outcrops. It is a variable species that may form a trailing plant or a small shrub. The spotted flowers may be white, pink or bluish-purple and appear throughout the year. It flowers in the spring.
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Lantana montevidensis is also cultivated as an ornamental plant for its plentiful colorful lavender to purple flowers and as a drought tolerant groundcover, woody vine, and trailing plant for containers and in the ground. In temperate climates there are flowers most the year, with yellow blooming and variegated leaved cultivars also available.
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Sedum sarmentosum is cultivated as a perennial groundcover in temperate climates. Like most succulents, it is tolerant of drought and full sun conditions. It was commonly planted at graves, where it may persist for decades. In China, it is often cultivated as a trailing plant, hence the name chui pen cao (垂盆草) which means "the herb that trails down the flowerpot".
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Persicaria decipiens, commonly known as slender knotweed, is a species of flowering plant native to Australia and Asia. Persicaria decipiens is a trailing plant whose stems grow horizontally at first but become more vertical with time, reaching high. Its narrow elliptic to lanceolate (spear-shaped) leaves are long and across. The slender pink flower spikes appear from November to June, with a peak in February.
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Another common name, "tree melon", is more often used for the papaya (Carica papaya) though the pepino dulce plant generally does not look much like a tree; it looks more like a ground cover, trailing plant. The present species is, however, a close relative of other nightshades cultivated for their fruit, including the tomato (S. lycopersicum) and the eggplant (S. melongena), which its own fruit closely resembles.
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Salvia chionophylla is a low-growing evergreen perennial native to a small area in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. First described in 1907 by Merritt Lyndon Fernald, it was only seen in horticulture beginning around 1996. It is a trailing plant that spreads by rooting at its nodes, producing more trailing stems, with small rounded dove-gray leaves about 0.5 in long, evenly spaced along the stem. The small blue flowers are less than .
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The plant is best grown in moist but well-drained soil, receiving irrigation from 'average' up to /year. It prefers protected full sun to half-shade locations. Creeping mazus is used in smaller open areas, between stepping stones in paths and patios, a trailing plant in pots, and in flower beds. It can also be used as a beneficial ground cover for grape vines (Vitis spp.), or the spring foliage of bulbs.
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It is an evergreen trailing plant with loose terminal clusters of bright yellow, saucer-shaped flowers. In the flower centre is a tight cluster of orange stamens, which are sensitive to the touch, and spread outwards to reveal the tall stigma in the middle. The plant is common on chalk downs, and occasional in other grasslands, always on dry, base-rich soil. The wild species has yellow flowers, but garden varieties range from white through yellow to deep red.
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