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Mazus reptans
Also called Miquel’s Mazus
Miquel's Mazus (Mazus reptans, also called creeping mazus) is a low-growing creeping perennial groundcover from East Asia that forms a dense carpet with spring and summer flowers. Keep it in moist but well-drained soil in full sun to half shade.
Mazus reptans, common name creeping mazus, is a heterotypic synonym of Mazus miquelii, a low-growing perennial plant native to the East Asia, and widely introduced in the United States.
Mazus reptans is cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use as a groundcover in gardens and container gardening. Creeping mazus can quickly form a dense ground-hugging carpet of bright green foliage, with showy seasonal flowers. Its fingernail sized lance-shaped toothed leaves typically remain green throughout the growing season, and it is evergreen in hardiness zones 5–8. It spreads quickly due to the stems rooting.
The plant is best grown in moist but well-drained soil, receiving irrigation from "average" up to 30 centimetres (12 in) per year. It prefers protected full sun to half-shade locations.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mazus reptans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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