Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Creeping Peanut

Arachis repens

Creeping Peanut
Photo: Sigried, CC BY-SA 3.0

Arachis repens is a low, mat-forming perennial legume from central and eastern Brazil, grown mainly as forage and as a ground cover in warm climates. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil in warm, seasonally dry conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained soil; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
C. & E. Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Arachis repens (Portuguese common name: grama-amendoim, ″peanut grass″) is a species in the family Fabaceae native to Brazil. This plant is often used as a forage and ornamental plant.

Other Arachis plants

Rhizoma peanut · Peanut · Pinto peanut · Groundnut · Peanut

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arachis repens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…