Plants for Foot Traffic Areas

    These varieties will tolerate light to medium foot traffic.  They generally fall into one of two categories; either tough/durable or ones that recover quickly.  The quick recovering varieties may need an occasional trimming if the foot traffic they receive is not sufficient to keep their height in check.  Often a reduction in watering and/or fertilizer will help control these fast growing plants once they have become established.  The flowering varieties will look their best if used where they receive little to no foot traffic because flowers damage easily.  If you are looking to cover an area that is used for yard games such as volley ball, or football then you really want to use turf grass - it will really hold up the best.  

Bellium munitum

Miniature Daisy

Erodium x variable (Bishops Form)

Heron's Bill

Fragaria chiloensis

Wild Strawberry

Fragaria x Lipstick

Lipstick Strawberry

Hydrocotyl sieboldii

Variegated Pennywort

Herniaria glabra

Rupturewort

Leptinella gruveri

 Miniature Brass Buttons

Leptinella squalida

Brass Buttons

Leptinella squalida 'Platt's Black'

'Platt's Black' Brass Buttons

Lysimachia nummularia

Creeping Jenny

Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea'

Golden Creeping Jenny

Mentha renquienii

Corsican Mint

Muehlenbeckia axillaris 'Nana'

Miniature Wire Vine

Pratia anguculata

White Star Creeper

Pratia penduculata

Blue Star Creeper

Pratia penduculata 'County Park'

Dark Blue Star Creeper

Potentilla verna 'Nana'

Dwarf Potentilla

Sagina subulata 'Aurea'

Scotch Moss

Sagina subulata

Irish Moss

Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea'

Golden Spike Moss

Soleirolia soleirolii

Baby Tears

Thymus pseudolanuginosis

Woolly Thyme

Thymus serpyllum 'Coccineum'

Red Creeping Thyme

Thymus serpyllum 'Minus'

Dwarf Creeping Thyme

Viola hederacea

Australian Violet