Creeping Wire Vine
Muehlenbeckia axillaris
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Groundcover
Height or Length at Maturity: 6-8″
Width at Maturity: 2′ or more
Spacing: 18-24″ apart for mass planting
Spacing: 18-24″ apart for mass planting
Growth Habit / Form: Low, Dense, Mounding, Spreading/Trailing
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: Green
Flower Type: Single
Flower Size: Tiny
Flowering Period: Summer
Flowering Period: Summer
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Olive Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: Yes, White
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Shade
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage: Well Drained
Soil pH: 5.0 – 8.0
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – , Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect,Rabbit, Foot Traffic
Description
Creeping Wire Vine is a very hardy and vigorous creeping wine with small, oval shaped, dark green leaves on wiry stems. Green flowers in spring are followed by white berries. This vine is a tough one; quite tolerant of foot traffic, drought and heat tolerant, and totally deer and rabbit resistant, making it a fine selection where a low-growing, ground-hugging perennial groundcover or filler plant is needed in the landscape. Also very nice as an accent or soil cover/spiller in combination container gardens.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in a low and spreading mound 6 to 8 inches tall and spreading 24 inches or more, the Creeping Wire Vine has many uses in design. It is ideal for use as a groundcover in sunny or shady landscape borders, as an underplanting for small or large trees, as an erosion controller on embankments and slopes, as a low border plant along paths and walkways, and as a texture and spiller plant in container gardens. Especially nice around boulders.
Suggested Spacing: 18 to 24 inches apart for mass planting
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Growing Preferences
When planted right and in the right spot, Creeping Wire Vine is exceptionally easy to grow. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility but handles dry soil conditions when established. We’ve grown in it both sun and shade and it performs equally as well.
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