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Muehlenbeckia axillaris |
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| | The straight species |
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| | 'Nana' |
| Common name |
creeping wire vine |
| Family |
polygonaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z6-9) |
| Flowers |
insignificant (late spring-early summer) |
| Size |
2-4" |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
drought-tolerant when established |
Vigorous evergreen groundcover, forms a mat of tiny dark-green leaves. The new growth is supposed to be bronze, but somehow I've missed that in our hectic spring seasons. Our first specimen, in our Pennsylvania garden, was the cultivar 'Nana', which presumably grows more compact; in Texas I bought a plant unlabeled as to cultivar, which I'll treat as the plain species unless I figure out otherwise. So far, it certainly has been more vigorous.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: back fence border, left fence border About my plant portraits
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