Lawn-alternative groundcovers for the Front Range
Low- and no-mow groundcovers that replace a thirsty Kentucky bluegrass lawn on the Colorado Front Range. Each fills in to a walkable, water-wise carpet you mow a few times a year or never, cutting irrigation while keeping a green yard. Expect a season or two of weeding and watering while they establish.
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39 plants
Aromatic asterSymphyotrichum oblongifolium
Blue grama grassBouteloua gracilis
Buffalo grassBouteloua dactyloides
Clustered field sedgeCarex praegracilis
Creeping Oregon grapeMahonia repens
Kinnikinnick / bearberryArctostaphylos uva-ursi
Mat penstemonPenstemon caespitosus
Small-leaf pussytoesAntennaria parvifolia
Angelina sedumSedum 'Angelina'
Bigroot / Cambridge cranesbillGeranium x cantabrigiense
Carpet bugleAjuga reptans
Cranberry cotoneasterCotoneaster apiculatus
Creeping lilyturfLiriope spicata
Creeping phlox / moss phloxPhlox subulata
Creeping thyme / wild thymeThymus serpyllum
Crystal River veronicaVeronica 'Crystal River'CRYSTAL RIVER® veronicaVeronica 'Reavis'
DOG TUFF™ grassCynodon 'PWIN04S'
European wild gingerAsarum europaeum
Fire Spinner ice plantDelosperma 'Fire Spinner'
FoamflowerTiarella cordifolia
Japanese spurgePachysandra terminalis
Lamb's earStachys byzantina
Lily of the valleyConvallaria majalis
Mesa Verde ice plantDelosperma 'Kelaidis'
Orange carpet / hummingbird trumpetZauschneria garrettii
Partridge featherTanacetum densum amani
PeriwinkleVinca minor
Purple ice plantDelosperma cooperi
Russian stonecropSedum kamtschaticumSerbian yarrowAchillea serbica
Snow-in-summerCerastium tomentosum
Snow-in-summer (compact form)Cerastium tomentosum
Spotted dead nettleLamium maculatum
Sweet woodruffGalium odoratum
Table Mountain ice plantDelosperma 'P001S'
Turkish veronicaVeronica liwanensis
Two-row stonecropSedum spurium
Woolly veronicaVeronica pectinata