Ground-covers
The combination of small size and striking foliage, flowers and fruit make our indigenous ground-covers absolutely perfect for an urban garden. They make great space-fillers between and under older and taller plants so go crazy and add lots of them to your garden beds. Ground-covers are an important component of a biodiverse garden providing food, shelter and nesting sites for a huge variety of insects, birds, small mammals and our many indigenous frogs.
Every garden has room for some pretty indigenous ground-covers!
| Image | Common Name | Genus | Species | Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Vanilla Lily | Arthropodium | milleflorum | |
![]() | Arthropodium | strictum | ||
![]() | Bulbine | bulbosa | ||
![]() | Bulbine | semibarbata | ||
![]() | Calocephalus | lacteus | ||
![]() | Swamp Pennywort | Centella | cordifolia | |
![]() | Chrysocephalum | apiculatum |
| |
![]() | Chrysocephalum | semipapposum |
| |
![]() | Billy Buttons | Craspedia | variabilis | |
![]() | Dianella | revoluta |
| |
![]() | Kidney-weed | Dichondra | repens | |
![]() | Ficinia | nodosa |
| |
![]() | Coronidium | scorpioides |
| |
| Running Postman | Kennedia | prostrata | ||
![]() | Lagenophora | stipitata |
| |
![]() | Lomandra | longifolia |
| |
![]() | Grey Everlasting | Ozothamnus | obcordatus | |
![]() | Pelargonium | australe |
| |
![]() | Poa | labillardieri |
| |
![]() | Trigger Plant | Stylidium | armeria | |
![]() | Veronica | gracilis |
| |
![]() | Viola | hederacea |
| |
![]() | Xerochrysum | viscosum |
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= Foliage,
= Flowers,
= Hedge,
= Pot,
= Birds,
= Butterflies






















